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To: Road Walker who wrote (252160)	9/21/2005 12:17:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573954

re: I think its too early to decide that Katrina was a 40 year storm....esp. if global warming is a factor. In fact, Katrina may become the norm in the future. In the last three years, each year has seen the formation of more storms than the year before. Three years does not make a trend in weather but its worth watching closely. Hopefully, with the results at least, Katrina is a 100 year storm. It's still an almost worst case scenario for a hurricane. It would appear Rita may be changing that concept. The thing is, you start pulling the trigger too early, and evacuate 4 days in advance, and you are going to miss the landing or intensity 85%+ of the time. And then people will stop listening. People who haven't been through this don't really get it... evacuation is a royal pain in the ass. There is the planning, the house preparation, missing work, packing documents, making sure you have reservation where they take the dog, prescriptions filled, removing all missiles from the outside, getting tons of cash, traffic jams, etc, etc, and ultimately the expense. Plus the people that don't evacuate give you smug looks when you meekly return.... and they tell you about how well they played golf while you were hunkering down in Ocala. On the contrary, I do understand........my comment about these storms becoming the norm had nothing to do with evacuations. Having said that, people in Galveston are leaving now. I think a mandatory evacuation can not wait to the last two days. That's too short a period of time to get people out of major metro areas. I think a minimum of three days and preferably four is needed. ted