Subj : Re: Hurricane Evacuation
To   : Finnigann
From : Newborn
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 22:53:00

  Re: Re: Hurricane Evacuation
  By: Finnigann to Newborn on Wed Sep 07 2005 03:27 am

 > -=> Newborn wrote to Frank <=-
 > 
 >  Ne>   Re: Hurricane Evacuation
 >  Ne>   By: Frank to Newborn on
 >  Ne> Sat Sep 03 2005 08:20 pm
 > 
 >  >
 >  >   I was wondering, In Florida when a serious Hurricane is approaching and
 >  >   evacuation starts to look like a REAL GOOD IDEA. Does the state Request
 >  >   or recommended that the population evacuate or do they issue a requirem
 >  >   to evacuate.
 >  >
 >  Ne>      In certain areas evacuations are mandatory.  Unfortunately the
 >  Ne> police
 >  Ne>      do not have the power to inforce the evacuation.  The governor CAN
 >  Ne> require
 >  Ne>      the evaculation, but, he doesn't have the power to have people
 >  Ne> removed
 >  Ne>      from their homes.
 > 
 >  >   I was just wondering, I don't live in an area where hurricanes are a bi
 >  >   threat. My weather station only recorded about 1/2 inch of rain here as
 >  >   Katrina went by with 20 to 30 mph wind gusts.
 >  >
 >  >   We got 40-50 mph gusts and a higher tide then normal, but nothing serio
 >  Ne>      this time around.  Someone mentioned how Fl got help during last
 >  Ne> years
 >  Ne>      Storms.  Well there are homes that STILL are awaiting repair in
 >  Ne> the
 >  Ne>      heaviest hit areas (4 storms aren't easy to recover from).  But,
 >  Ne> then
 >  Ne>      90,000 sq. miles of damage isn't a cake walk either.  I don't
 >  Ne> believe it
 >  Ne>      will do any good to rebuild much of the damage from Katrina on
 >  Ne> site.
 >  Ne>      Another storm will just cause the same damage.  NO is built on
 >  Ne> nothing
 >  Ne>      but 'silt' and no levee will change that; especially ones that are
 >  Ne> built
 >  Ne>      for level 3 hurricanes.
 > 
 >  Ne>      As i write this we have 3 depressions in the Atlantic and 1 in the
 >  Ne> Gulf
 >  Ne>      that are forming and it's still 3+ months left in the season.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Well assuming that the citizens of Florida want to live as much as the citiz
 > of LA... Wouldn't it be a low risk assumption that the death toll should be
 > nearly the same. (with simialr storms)
 > 
   Well there are differences.  The storms in Florida did NOT do as much damage
   because the population is not concentrated in 'marsh land' and they were
   catagory 3 and 4 (Katrina was at the low end of cat 5). The damage in
   Florida was mostly wind, NOT flood as was Katrina, which kept the fatalities
   much lower.

 > We don't have alot of huricanes to compare statistics over. But if large
 > numbers of LA folks were killed, (as compared to similar storms in FLA) it
 > would be time to start looking into the why's of disaster actions. (I am try
 > to stay away from assigning causes here. we have little in the way of facts)
 > 
   We in Florida seem to have a Governor (jeb) and state agencies that are
   better prepared for Hurricans than some Gulf states.  Perhaps that is
   because we are generally the objects of Hurricanes almost every year.  When
   FEMA came in here there assistance was mainly in Mobile Homes for temporary
   shelter and emergency food and water.

Newborn
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