Don't beat me up too badly -- this is my first blog post ever.
So here are all these thousands of people in Galveston who were told to leave, and didn't, before Ike showed up.
The National Weather Service was using phrases like "certain death" in its warnings. You would think that would get the point across. Apparently not. Now, many of these people who survived are having to be rescued -- for free.
For the next hurricane, how about this: If you are subject to a MANDATORY evacuation order (Why do they call it that if you can ignore it?) and a means of evacuating is made available to you if you don't have any of your own, and you still choose to stay, and you call 911 and they have to come and rescue you, well, they should send you a bill for the personnel/helicopter time, etc.
If people knew that they would be accepting a major financial risk if they chose to stick around for a hurricane, maybe the "mandatory" evacuation order would mean something.
At the very least, paying the freight would be a way of expressing gratitude if they saved your life, right?
There, now I've said it.
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