hial2 wrote:The ONLY drawback to Gustav's "fizzing out"..the news media and the inevitable next time..
How many people will listen next time??..Chicken little comes to mind..
Well, we'll have to see, but, if the mountains of Haiti have killed this system, we need to seriously analyze what these things do to the general public. People need to understand what this is doing to New Orleanians. I have a friend who manages a hotel who had employees in his office today crying. I work at a bank. I had lines of people in my branch today cashing checks for $10,000.00 to be prepared because they didn't get cash "for Katrina." We barely had enough money before we closed. The residents of New Orleans have been in panic mode today over a storm in Haiti. Not saying this is bad and we still don't know the future, but, this serves as a lesson in what we are doing to the general public. The governor of the State of Louisiana declared an official State of Emergency in Louisiana today at 5:00PM. Now, if this system comes back and plows towards Louisiana we know that this is a good thing, but, if it doesn't then we need to seriously analyze how we handle these systems in the future with the general public. I have another friend in New Orleans who called their physician to get a prescription of Ativan sent to the neighborhood Rite Aid. We have to be cautious with the public. I posted an entire thread on this board on another forum about how New Orleans is not ready for a hurricane and is truly VERY scared of these systems.