(August 29, 2017 at 2:17 pm)Nymphadora Wrote:(August 27, 2017 at 9:08 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: News is reporting two deaths near Corpus and hundreds of high-water rescues in Houston.
What a damn shame. I really feel for those who had no choice but to stay.
I do not understand, for the life of me, how some people chose to stay in their homes with how this hurricane was being covered. People knew what was going to happen. Evacuation orders were announced. There was time to get shit together and get the hell out. And if they say they don't watch the news, then all they had to do was look around them and see people boarding up windows, buying up supplies, packing their cars, etc. This isn't rocket science and we don't live in the Dark Ages. People just knew period. Sure... if a person had absolutely no way of evacuating, they're sorta screwed and they have to stay, but when a person has the means to leave, why stay? I just don't get it. Why can't more people execute common sense when it comes to these types of disasters?
Rescuers have to stay. It's part of their job. And I understand that because not everyone has the means to evacuate and rescuers have to be there to assist, if necessary. But if people have vehicles, can safely get to higher ground or go somewhere else until all threats of harm are gone, then fucking go. It's really selfish to want to stay because you're "excited" at the thought of "surviving a cat 4-5 hurricane". And really - let's be honest. Those who choose to stay are doing so, in part, because of the excitement that this storm brings. Let's not lie about that. We all know that's one of the big reasons why. People wanna record shit in this day and age and are willing to put not only their own lives, but other people's lives in danger just for a bit of video in the hopes that it will "go viral". Please. If a person is willing to be that stupid - rescuers should first focus on those who had no choice to be there instead and leave the fools to figure it out for themselves.
I'll probably get told I'm being insensitive but IDGAF at this point. I have a very good friend of 30+ years as well as numerous other friends in my life who risk their lives every day rescuing people from disasters. Disasters, I might add, that people really had no time to prepare for like car accidents and fires. They have loved ones who would just be devastated if anything were to happen to them on the job. Why intentionally put yourself in harms way, so that you can ask someone else, to put their own life in harms way because of your own ignorance? It's just not necessary if you are able to get the fuck out of town. I swear. Consideration for others' lives is a rarity now a days and common sense is all but gone because people just don't care about the consequences that their own actions bring to other people.
More deaths will probably be reported and what's really sad is that some of those might have been prevented if those people had just left when they had the opportunity to do so.
People have to stay in their homes during such disasters in order to restore life to the city. If everyone left then the city would become a ghost town. People have to stay in order to maintain and get the infrastructure up and running. You may have noticed that the schools will open September 11 so all of the teachers had to stay in town as well as the students. There's a master schedule that has to be followed. The kids have to graduate on time to keep the colleges and universities fed with new inventory. Imagine the chaos if the students and teachers aren't in school on time because of the flood.
Old and sick people should seek safer ground during floods but they usually rely on family caregivers and those people have other commitments that they have to honor. So basically the only people who can easily leave are healthy retired people who have guaranteed sources of income and good transportation. Everyone else is pretty much stuck. Business owners and key employees can't leave. They have to be on hand to get things operating again.
