gratefulnole wrote:gtalum wrote:The NHC screwed up by issuing hurricane warnings, and JEB did what he had to do in that circumstance. Both, it turns out, severely overreacted and people will become a little bit more complacent because of it. It's tough to be in charge.
It isn't like an evacuation order was made for all of Tampa with warnings of extensive damage. It was an evacuation for just the coastal residents in one of the most sparsely populated coastlines in the state. It affected less than 20,000 people and it was for possible storm surge, not possible wind damage.
Completely correct. Barely even effected anyone in the state. Maybe .08% of the total pop. Not like charley evacs of the entire tampa area to inland fl where they were in the path of charlie. He did what he had to do. Nothing was done in extremety at all. Was all rational decisions.