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To: tejek who wrote (252280)	9/21/2005 2:16:52 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573958

re: 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. Katrina and Rita are pretty unusual. More typical is Charlie last year... it cruised along as a cat 2 for a couple of days, them about 3 hours before landfall went to a cat 4. And hit 120 miles away from where it was supposed to. They had some mandatory evacuations where it was supposed to hit, none at all where it did hit. And nobody was thinking cat 4. Now with Katrina and Rita monster cat 4-5's with over 48 hours warning and a strong consensus on the computer models, sure... it's an easy call. But with a typical hurricane you can't evacuate half the gulf coastal region for 4 days every time a cat 2 storm is on the loose. John