Comments on: Evacuation Blues http://humidcity.com/2008/09/03/evacuation-blues/ Handing New Orleanians a Megaphone Since 2005 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:29:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: HumidCity » Blog Archive » The First Four Hours Are the Hardest http://humidcity.com/2008/09/03/evacuation-blues/#comment-166486 HumidCity » Blog Archive » The First Four Hours Are the Hardest Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:26:24 +0000 http://humidcity.com/?p=1429#comment-166486 [...] Loki’s post expresses much of what I’ve been thinking about the latest evacuation and Lord David and Bigezbear posted the comment I and others have wanted to see—if you want me to get out of harm’s way, don’t act like each breeze is a tornado or that the lovely social services we are so spoiled by on a normal basis will be ripped out from under out feet if we do not fucking obey. I’m a rational person with a young child and 3 cats to protect but after this episode, I feel James O’Byrne: And by Tuesday afternoon, this city was as safe as it needed to be. Indeed, all those tree branches and debris would be picked up and stacked neatly on the curb by lunchtime on Wednesday if people had been allowed to come home. [...] [...] Loki’s post expresses much of what I’ve been thinking about the latest evacuation and Lord David and Bigezbear posted the comment I and others have wanted to see—if you want me to get out of harm’s way, don’t act like each breeze is a tornado or that the lovely social services we are so spoiled by on a normal basis will be ripped out from under out feet if we do not fucking obey. I’m a rational person with a young child and 3 cats to protect but after this episode, I feel James O’Byrne: And by Tuesday afternoon, this city was as safe as it needed to be. Indeed, all those tree branches and debris would be picked up and stacked neatly on the curb by lunchtime on Wednesday if people had been allowed to come home. [...]

]]> By: Hoochiemama http://humidcity.com/2008/09/03/evacuation-blues/#comment-166394 Hoochiemama Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:12:11 +0000 http://humidcity.com/?p=1429#comment-166394 Sorry ya'll had such a rough time, hope you're doing better now, me thinks if you continue to evacuate that a GPS might be in order. Back roads from the get go, back roads. The weather experts knew that Gustav was not as big of a storm as they were reporting, my sources said that when the weather service was reporting 115 mph winds they were actually 100, where I stayed in Carrollton we sat on the porch through a lot of the storm, our dogs hung with us in the yard. Several of our neighbors stayed. This was a political storm and yes our mayor is an idiot, but didn't you know what you were getting yourself into when you evacuated??? We need to keep on our government, on all levels to do what needs to be done, for all of the people all of the time. New Orleans is fine physically from this storm, not so much emotionally. Other areas got the shaft the way this city got it last time. New Orleans was well taken care of, to the detriment of others, that I think was all part of the plan to show the rest of the country that they learned their lesson with Katrina and were sorry and vote for us, please, vote for us. We all need to realize that the government is trying to control us and is giving us lots of misinformation and then when we consider whether to evacuate or not take that into consideration. We all did what we thought we should do considering the information that we had and the emotions that this stirred up. I understand everyone's situation is different, that's is certainly something we all learned during Katrina. It's time to take the lessons learned from Katrina and Gustav and realize that evacuation is not always the answer and to make and take responsibility for our own decisions. Sincerely and with love to all reading this and especially to Loki and yours both human and otherwise. Sorry ya’ll had such a rough time, hope you’re doing better now, me thinks if you continue to evacuate that a GPS might be in order. Back roads from the get go, back roads.
The weather experts knew that Gustav was not as big of a storm as they were reporting, my sources said that when the weather service was reporting 115 mph winds they were actually 100, where I stayed in Carrollton we sat on the porch through a lot of the storm, our dogs hung with us in the yard. Several of our neighbors stayed. This was a political storm and yes our mayor is an idiot, but didn’t you know what you were getting yourself into when you evacuated???
We need to keep on our government, on all levels to do what needs to be done, for all of the people all of the time. New Orleans is fine physically from this storm, not so much emotionally. Other areas got the shaft the way this city got it last time. New Orleans was well taken care of, to the detriment of others, that I think was all part of the plan to show the rest of the country that they learned their lesson with Katrina and were sorry and vote for us, please, vote for us.
We all need to realize that the government is trying to control us and is giving us lots of misinformation and then when we consider whether to evacuate or not take that into consideration. We all did what we thought we should do considering the information that we had and the emotions that this stirred up.
I understand everyone’s situation is different, that’s is certainly something we all learned during Katrina. It’s time to take the lessons learned from Katrina and Gustav and realize that evacuation is not always the answer and to make and take responsibility for our own decisions.
Sincerely and with love to all reading this and especially to Loki and yours both human and otherwise.

]]> By: Superdeformed http://humidcity.com/2008/09/03/evacuation-blues/#comment-165895 Superdeformed Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:44:50 +0000 http://humidcity.com/?p=1429#comment-165895 It's been a mixed bag of nuts from where I sit. I evacuated from the Marigny Saturday evening via Highway 90. It took me 3 hours to get to Slidell (which I am sure was better time then those taking I-10) and another 3 hour drive down hwy 90 along the Gulf Coast to Pascagoula to I-10 to Pensacola to my Aunt's and I was good to go. So I avoided the horrors of contra-flow, fed myself (and family) with my emptied fridge full of chicken breasts and pork chops, and came back home Wednesday night (with no roadblocks in my way) to my lil apartment with electricity. I consider myself blessed all things considering. All in all I can understand the reasoning for the over-hype since I really do think it was a bit of a surprise to the weather experts that Gustav didn't become a monster in that hot-ass gulf. I also think everyone was scared shitless myself included. I literally held my breath a few times while I watched the "splashing" over the levees on the news. I think it was a step in the right direction and a lot of the political leaders I don't much care for did somehow communicate across the board. But major revamping is still needed on all levels and all directions. Less paranoia, less closed exits, and quicker return times are a must. It's our job to stay on their asses to make them improve this whole process and maybe vote a few of them out as well. The levees need to be finished ASAP and be built even stronger. Nearly over-topping from a weak Catagory 2 Hurricane is not reassuring but I am grateful they did hold. Oh and those transmission towers could use some reinforcement as well, haha. Ah well I'm done rambling, time to go find food in this "closed" city. GOOD LUCK It’s been a mixed bag of nuts from where I sit. I evacuated from the Marigny Saturday evening via Highway 90. It took me 3 hours to get to Slidell (which I am sure was better time then those taking I-10) and another 3 hour drive down hwy 90 along the Gulf Coast to Pascagoula to I-10 to Pensacola to my Aunt’s and I was good to go.

So I avoided the horrors of contra-flow, fed myself (and family) with my emptied fridge full of chicken breasts and pork chops, and came back home Wednesday night (with no roadblocks in my way) to my lil apartment with electricity. I consider myself blessed all things considering.

All in all I can understand the reasoning for the over-hype since I really do think it was a bit of a surprise to the weather experts that Gustav didn’t become a monster in that hot-ass gulf. I also think everyone was scared shitless myself included. I literally held my breath a few times while I watched the “splashing” over the levees on the news.

I think it was a step in the right direction and a lot of the political leaders I don’t much care for did somehow communicate across the board. But major revamping is still needed on all levels and all directions. Less paranoia, less closed exits, and quicker return times are a must.

It’s our job to stay on their asses to make them improve this whole process and maybe vote a few of them out as well.

The levees need to be finished ASAP and be built even stronger. Nearly over-topping from a weak Catagory 2 Hurricane is not reassuring but I am grateful they did hold. Oh and those transmission towers could use some reinforcement as well, haha.

Ah well I’m done rambling, time to go find food in this “closed” city. GOOD LUCK

]]> By: Loki http://humidcity.com/2008/09/03/evacuation-blues/#comment-165860 Loki Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:26:24 +0000 http://humidcity.com/?p=1429#comment-165860 You're always welcome to share my work Kevin! You’re always welcome to share my work Kevin!

]]> By: Kevin http://humidcity.com/2008/09/03/evacuation-blues/#comment-165834 Kevin Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:39:12 +0000 http://humidcity.com/?p=1429#comment-165834 Noted and linked back at blogofneworleans.com. I had to use one of those astounding photos and didn't have a way to get your permission...I posted it with complete attribution. I hope that's OK - if not, let me know. Good luck coming home. Noted and linked back at blogofneworleans.com.

I had to use one of those astounding photos and didn’t have a way to get your permission…I posted it with complete attribution. I hope that’s OK - if not, let me know.

Good luck coming home.

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