Let's roleplay a Katrina situation...?

Question

I'm tired of everyone saying "Why didn't you people get the heck out of there!" Please read this and consider it.



Scenario 1:
Imagine that you are poor. You have no car. You have no television. In fact, the only contact with the outside world you have is your neighbor a mile away that has an old radio that barely works.

POP QUIZ! How are you supposed to know of anything coming, and if you do know, how are you supposed to get out?


Scenario 2:
Imagine that you are middle-class now. You live near a very large city, and your city shares the same small interstate. The mayor of the neighboring city orders a mandatory evacuation, which makes at least 1/4 of the population leave. Your news station reports that traffic is moving at about a mile an hour. The storm will be here in twenty-four hours.

POP QUIZ! Which is safer, a house three miles inland, or a car 27 miles inland?



Please stop the ignorance and recognize that there were some things stopping people from evacuating

Answer 1

Let's roleplay a Katrina situation...?

no tv?? a radio that barely works a mile away??
Where did you get your facts from??

Let's roleplay.

Your the mayor of chocolate city.

you lowball the city bus drivers and don't wanna pay them OT.So you have no drivers to get people out.You let busses get flooded. you let state cars get flooded.Trains leave that could have taken a thousand people out of the city.Under your watch money that was send to you to by radios that would work during katrina disappears.The plans that you helped draw up predicted this would happen.So you knew what was coming.
Yet the only thing you worried about was how you looked and how you could blame others.
What kinda of mayor are you??

Answer 2

Don't kid yourself. People had plenty of warning. Those who did not heed the warning were just plain foolish. There were welfare people who stayed home because they wanted to wait for their checks, which were due shortly. Lots of refugees were interviewed and said things like "I did not think it would happen" or "it was my own fault. The biggest problem is that people chose to live below sea level, assumed a big risk, and did not want to be at fault when they got bit on their butts.

Answer 3

You made your point.

Answer 4

tell us something we already didnt know