Yikes don't say Elena.dixiebreeze wrote:mf_dolphin wrote:The problem in Pinellas county isn't with the Emergency Management folks it's with the residents themselves. Typically there are way too many people that will not evacuate here and it's going to take a disaster to wake people up. Now that we had the near miss a couple of years ago I'm afraid it's going to get worse not better. Many people that did evacuate did so to Orlando and got nailed. The other problem Pinealls County has to face in teh evac routes. If you look up Pinellas county on Google Maps you'll see that 4 of the main evacuation routes are bridges. Due to the low approaches to these bridges they get closed when winds reach sustained TS force. The only real land route north out of the county is almost bumper to bumper on a normal day. To put it in a nut-shell, by the time they issue mandatory evacuations here there's not much chance of getting out.
Dolphin, you are so right. Even if everyone evacuated as mandated, it would be an unimaginable nightmare trying to move traffic. Some of the E routes are north up through our area and those roads are already jammed on a daily basis. Hurricane Elena is a good example -- and she didn't even come ashore!
Nice to see you Dixie 
I agree Marshall, I think Charley will add to the complacency 
If not I will wait for you to pick up Tony and I in the Boat 
