Ok.. I will be burned but I have to ask (katrina related) HIGHLY controversal

not being sarcastic..
not meant to be cruel..
not to take away from those sufering..

Still Im sure SOMEONE will misinterpret this.

ok. here goes.

If you saw what we all saw on tv for more than a week approaching your own city (the hurricane katrina) If the local authority told you to leave and even told you it was a catagory 5, would you leave?

I ask because almost ALL the interviews I saw here folks who decided to 'ride it out' not so much the poor or couldnt travel. Heck Fat Domino thought to stay and with a legend like that many assumed he would never put himself in danger or his family, folks assumed it was ok to stay. The pictures of the superdome show they could have held more. Even if they couldnt fit in the dome the red cross would have relocated them.

Folks are still in their attics and others knew not to go into attics.

I dunno but maybe its just me, but Id have left.

ALSO does no one know that New Orleans is in a bowl that is below sea level and impossible to reach if flooded and is basically sitting on soaked land (aka Marsh lands and Byous) to begin with which means there was a pretty darn POSITIVE chance of flooding.

I have to ask.

My office mates (long islanders) said 'Its a long walk to the superdome' or 'Well, they don't have cars'.

I find it all very hard to swallow when i see the folks interviewed all seem like they should have and could have left or should have and if they were aware of how severe this would be (which again I reference the WEEK of news coverage) but decided to stay.

My question..


Would you leave NY/Long Island?

I sure as Heck would be in Jersey as soon as it was a few hundred miles out at the LATEST. Most likely Id take a few days off JUST in case, you life just is NOT worth guess you might make it.

Ok, Done venting
Remember I still think NO ONE should suffer for any reason and I feel pretty horrid folks are dead, dying and suffering by the thousands (black and white and asian and man and woman and child all alike).





probably will need Ron to delete this soon