I just finished explaning the issue of "Storm Surge" to another Freeper who does not live in Hurricane Ally.
That post is reproduced below and I hope it is informative to those who think that a hurricane is a hurricane is a hurricane no matter where you happen to be.
"...... Where exactly you were going to suggest they take all these people?", he asked me:
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Well, being from ( X ), you probably have very little experience with hurricanes. Since my family has lived in Hurricane Ally for over 140 years, I do.
Where do you take those people?
OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE!!!!
ANYWHERE out of the Storm Surge zone!
It does not matter where they end up....in Baton Rogue, in Georgia, in Texas or in Timbuktu.
You get them the h#ll OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE!
"Ummm....What's a Storm Surge?", those who don't live in Hurrican Ally ask.
This is what a "Storm Surge" is": Post 11 of this thread
This is what a Storm Surge does:
This is how people who are left stranded in a Storm Surge area end up.....259 war veterans WPA workers aboard that train died in that 1935 Labor Day Hurricane :
The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane Storm Surge literally wiped the Town of Islamorada off the map.
A 1933 hurricane storm surge not only totally destroyed the Cuban town of Cayo Cristo and every human being and every building in that town. It also washed away the entire friggin' island! Afterwards, an entire ISLAND was no longer on navigational charts.
That is why the Mayor of New Orleans beat feet to Baton Rogue. Baton Rouge is OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE.
By contrast, New Orleans is not only in the Storm Surge zone but also BELOW SEA LEVEL. It's levies were not designed for anything greater that Category 3 and Katrina was forecast as a Category 5.
"But no city offered to take them in and ....whine, whine"
BRAVO SIERRA!
Eight hundreds thousand (800,000) other resident of New Orleans got out of the Storm Surge Zone and they were just absorbed into the rest of the United States.
Another 200,000 is totally irrelevant.
On top of that, Bush requested to Federalize the entire evacuation and the Democrat Governor refused.
The New Orleans Hurricane disaster plans called for COMPLETE evacuation of New Orleans precisely BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE STORM SURGE ZONE.
The Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan specifically stated that people without private transportation were to be transported on public buses.
There were not just "200 buses". There were 200 buses in just one photo and Freepers studying the post-Katrina satellite images have counted over 400 buses altogether at other city parking.
At 70 people per bus that is 28,000 people per round trip that could have been taken out of the storm surge area in the 48 hours prior the Katrina striking.
After the storm hit, what makes you think that buses sent from outside of New Orleans could drive through the flooded mess any better than the 145 New Orleans city buses that were parked 1.2 miles away from the Superdome?
Was Scotty supposed to beam the outside buses to the Superdome and them beam them back out so that they would not have to drive through impassable roads?
The time to evacuate those 200,000 low-income people on public buses OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE was BEFORE the Category 4 storm struck.
That was what the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan for New Orleans specifically called for.
The Democrat Governor and the Democrat Mayor did NOTHING to carry out that portion of the plan. They left 200,000 low-income resident abandoned and they now blame the Federal Government for not having Scotty beam down a massive logistics effort after a human disaster of their own making.