Sunday, September 07, 2008
Joltin' Django's cure for "evacuation fatique"
Creeder Reader Dana sends this story about possible "evacuation fatigue" in southeast Louisiana:
"In Louisiana, still recovering from last week's Hurricane Gustav, Gov. Bobby Jindal set up a task force to prepare for the possibility of more havoc.
"'We're not hoping for another strike, another storm, but we're ready,' he said.
"Even as Gustav evacuees headed home, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said officials were anxiously monitoring Ike's projected path toward the Gulf.
"'Our citizens are weary and they're tired and they have spent a lot of money evacuating ... from Gustav,' he said. He added that if Ike were to threaten, 'my expectations this time is, it will be very difficult to move the kind of numbers out of this city that we moved during Gustav.'"
I think that the folks who name hurricanes should use less innocuous names. I mean, Hurricane "Ike?" Ike is a name that should be affixed to a high pressure system somewhere, not a hurricane.
If hurricanes were given fierce-sounding names, people would be more apt to consider the danger of staying in an area likely to be hit by a hurricane. Think about it:
If TV weather forecasters in southeast Louisiana were saying something like "Hurricane Genghis Khan/Vlad the Impaler is bearing down on this area," don't you think more people would want to get the **** out o' Dodge, er, New Orleans?!
"In Louisiana, still recovering from last week's Hurricane Gustav, Gov. Bobby Jindal set up a task force to prepare for the possibility of more havoc.
"'We're not hoping for another strike, another storm, but we're ready,' he said.
"Even as Gustav evacuees headed home, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said officials were anxiously monitoring Ike's projected path toward the Gulf.
"'Our citizens are weary and they're tired and they have spent a lot of money evacuating ... from Gustav,' he said. He added that if Ike were to threaten, 'my expectations this time is, it will be very difficult to move the kind of numbers out of this city that we moved during Gustav.'"
I think that the folks who name hurricanes should use less innocuous names. I mean, Hurricane "Ike?" Ike is a name that should be affixed to a high pressure system somewhere, not a hurricane.
If hurricanes were given fierce-sounding names, people would be more apt to consider the danger of staying in an area likely to be hit by a hurricane. Think about it:
If TV weather forecasters in southeast Louisiana were saying something like "Hurricane Genghis Khan/Vlad the Impaler is bearing down on this area," don't you think more people would want to get the **** out o' Dodge, er, New Orleans?!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Sunday, September 07, 2008 
