Deja Vu on the Bayou

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by dagolfer33

Preparation has been great. All politics aside, Bobby Jindal is an extremely sharp individual and this situation is right up his alley. From the beginning you could tell he wants no part of a failure similar to the Blanco/Nagin/Bush debacle that was Katrina. The situations with people needing to be rescued leaves me with one prevailing thought: Do these people have any remorse for being stupid and not heeding evacuation warnings? They are putting courageous rescuers in the line of danger unnecessarily.

there are several things about disasters that always leave me shaking my head. and the above is one of them. i feel it is the height of stupidity to have days, or even a week or more of warning, and yet they stay. and then they get po'd because the rescuers just don't show up quickly enough.
tornadoes, fires, etc can come out of nowhere, with next to no warning, or no warning. and yet we put time, money, effort into learning how to better track storms...and for what?
so that dumbasses are on their roof.
so that dumbasses send dumbasses that work for them to the scene to report, because god knows we haven't gotten enough footage over the years to understand that hey, waves get high, and trees whip around. amazing!
and then there are the untold dumbasses who put their hands out after because 'ah ain't got none of dat der inshoorance. hoooz gonna pay'?

yeah, we're the intelligent species.