"When you are on the train you can't see the train wreck coming."
I like it. It is very appropriate.
"Guess I should have said 'natural' disasters... anyway you know what I mean. "
Yes, I do. Volcanoes give a lot of warning, but they are pretty subtle. So your train analogy applies. Earthquakes, well, scare the hell out of me. Which is going to be ironic. By the time you know they are going to happen, it is too damn late. Floods aren't quite as precipitous, but predicting them to any degree is difficult.
Hurricanes, though...
And even then, you have a lot of people who want to try their luck. Now, if a hurricane were to target BCS, I likely wouldn't evacuate. But,with a couple of hundred miles of land and trees between me and the Gulf, tornadoes are the biggest threat. And if God wants to get you with a tornado, it is hard to evacuate far enough away. Like when Allen was approaching in 1980. The National Hurricane center had just reorganized and weren't prepared for the hurricane season. So, the predicted path was all over the place and changed every hour. It was supposed to hit in the Galveston area, but wound up going in at Brownsville. A lot of people evacuated from Houston and Galveston, most heading for San Antonio and Austin. Guess where the remnants of Allen dragged a bunch of tornadoes? Several motels stuffed with evacuees were hit. |
