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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (135043)	8/29/2005 8:21:47 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793559

so far i have heard of 5 deaths directly related to the storm.... i'm sure there will be more, and each individual loss of life is tragic, but i must question how can analysts be so completely off base, (i heard estimates upward of 50K deaths) and i disagree with you about the safer 'alarmist' view i live in an area that is susceptible to tornado activity and over the recent years, we have have 'tornado warnings' (sirens) going off with regularity now....it is to the point that few people even pay attention to them anymore, rendering them useless...the idea USED to be that you heard a tornado siren, you made haste to your safety zone...now the reaction tends to be oh gee, another thunderstorm, another 'tornado' warning while i understand the concept of 'better safe than sorry' one has to question how many times these massive dislocations of people at the direction of government agencies ending with 'gee, guess we dodged another bullet' is ultimately counterproductive people are being conditioned to ignore these dire warnings let's face it, if you live in a hurricane zone, hurricanes HAPPEN...i trust the people who have been living in those environments to know if they are sufficiently positioned and provisioned to ride out a storm