QuoteCigary - 9/13/2018 9:37 PM
Totally dismayed as to those who choose or chose to jeapordize their lives or the lives of their family...not to mention the lives of First Responders who will have to sacrifice themselves to save those who didn't evacuate. WTH can be so important that can't be replaced.... children with parents who put belongings as something more important than their lives.. can someone explain this to me cuz I just don't get it.
QuoteBrlesq - 9/13/2018 10:59 PMQuoteCigary - 9/13/2018 9:37 PM Totally dismayed as to those who choose or chose to jeapordize their lives or the lives of their family...not to mention the lives of First Responders who will have to sacrifice themselves to save those who didn't evacuate. WTH can be so important that can't be replaced.... children with parents who put belongings as something more important than their lives.. can someone explain this to me cuz I just don't get it.The one thing I keep hearing is that the shelters don't allow pets, and nobody wants to leave their pets behind to die. Tough choice!
I completely get this....my wife and I are Rescue People and know what goes on when things of this nature take place. We put out pamphlets that give Pet Owners information as to what they can do when conditions arise like this.
1. Have a list of Pet Friendly Hotels and make reservations at least a week in advance of bad weather...esp. conditions like the one we see.
2. Evacuation means....GTFO because people will lose power to their homes and maybe for weeks. If you've ever been w/o power for a few days then you'll get what I mean....it's horrible and that means no showers, hot as hell esp. in the summertime...limited resources like water and food. Unless you have a generator then you will be living as if it were 1800.
3. I use to write up Evac PLans in my job before I retired and it was for 150 plants in the US and Europe...each area of the world had its own issues as far as "what to do" in case of Emergency and Number 1 is....follow the PLan to the letter. It will save lives and it will give you enough info where it can be implemented in a day but this means you have to have be prepared and most people aren't......we see people running to the grocery stores, Home Depot, etc. because it's last minute thinking when you could be evacuating to safety.
4. Have a list of friends to stay with....have a suitcase/box/etc. to put your important papers in or better yet....reduce paper by having important info like Insurance Info....photos uploaded to the Cloud or other services. These days having a digital backup is not only smart but necessary . I have a complete digital profile of everything in my house....furniture, appliances, clothes, etc. if things go upside down. It only took an hour to inventory what I own just in case the worst things were to happen. Trying to inventory things afterwards is almost impossible because one is stressed out already. PREPAREDNESS ISN'T JUST A WORD.....IT'S A PLAN OF ACTION THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE AS WELL AS LOVED ONES.
We are sitting tight here in Charleston. We are going to be on the edge of things. Flooding will be a bigger issue than the winds. In the past 2 hurricanes to to pass through(Irma, Matthew) as well as the Tropical Storm Joaqin...Number 1 the media completely overstated the intensity of the storm as well as jumped onto peoples fears to get ratings. This storm is similar. This storm is not in Hugo proportions. Politicians cover their collective asses by doing the same thing and call for evacuation. So when making the decision to stay we try to be as informed as possible. I look at everyone's models. I personally like the "spaghetti" models. I try not to listen to the "news". It really doesn't help. Yes you can say better safe than sorry...but there are costs involved with evacuation. After you leave, you have to be able to get back. and if you don't work that out precisely, you can be hung out to dry with no place to stay. Those that left could not get home to assess damages and so water would sit for weeks and create a MUCH bigger problem than for those who stayed and were able to assess and take action immediately. And there are many who simply have no means to leave. And of course there are those who have been here for decades and have gone through the same song and dance every year...Heck we have houses here that are over 400 years old....and have survived every Hurricane and Flood that have come through here.
Now I am not trying to make light of these storms. They are no joke. But we do have to be informed. I don't believe we are getting the information we need from the mainstream options...If we were in Wilmington...I believe we would have evacuated...But here in Charleston...from all of the models we are seeing...we are not going to be hit very heavily. The MSM were warning us of Hurricane winds of over 150 mph starting at 8:00 pm yesterday. The models show about 40 mph starting today. In fact as I sit here typing...we haven't seen a drop of rain and barely any wind. We know it is coming...I just know through historical information and through lot's of study that it will not be as bad as the past 3 years....this time. Our house is extremely over built, not even 3 yrs old, with 200 mph windows, and Hurricane Shutters(and not the decorative type). It is on a raised foundation on raised land. So I am not just making this decision to stay willy-nilly.
After all of that...the biggest reason I stay is because I work for a Hospital and can be called in to help at any time...But I wanted to at least go through the thought process of some people staying...We have taken many precautions and we are being safe.