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(09-12-2018 07:45 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(09-12-2018 07:19 PM)Blue_Trombone Wrote:  

(09-12-2018 07:07 AM)ODU_NYG Wrote:  That’s because you are only thinking about yourself and not the safety of an entire population of people.

Yeah, most models had the storm hitting the Carolinas, heading north and sitting on Virginia for an extended period of time. There was the potential for the need to move over a half a million people from extremely flood prone areas. Thank God it looks like it won't got us, but I am not going to blame the government for being too cautious on this one. I'm cool with a bum week for business if it means less lost lives.

I realize that I am stating a highly unpopular view here. But I think you guys have mis-framed the issue.

One of my neighbors is a cardiologist. He had to cancel 15 appointments today because his satellite office is located in Zone A mandatory evacuation. I am certain that if any of these were true emergencies, they would have been relocated to the hospital. But even non-emergency cardiology appointments strike me as important.

Just, apparently, not more important than keeping our elected officials from unwelcome attention by our over-caffeinated media.

And so here we are, heading into a 3rd day of mandatory evacuation for major parts if the city -- over a storm that is now a virtual certainty to do no more than get us wet. It is not, in my view, a matter of our gov't being "too cautious". It is instead a reflection of a gov't that is frightened to do anything other than cover their own butts from media second-guessing -- even when the risks are infinitesimal and the costs enormous.

Permit me to be clear (since even minor ambiguity is an invitation to expressions of scorn and outrage for some in this forum): I am not belittling the severity of this storm. My sincere best wishes go out to anyone here with loved ones on the Carolina coastline. They are in for a dangerously rough ride.

But we are not. And never were -- certainly not as of mid-day on Tuesday when the order went into effect.