Geez, some hoteliers and government employees have no brains and no empathy! I’m sorry that happened to you!

People did exactly what they were told to do and are now being excoriated for it.

I thought the various states learned after Katrina that they need to evacuate people WITH their pets, otherwise people stay behind and drown. I realize that many of the shelters take pets, but the question is, do enough of the shelters take pets? I also noticed that the announcement of free transport to the shelters…

I evacuated for Matthew last year and I drove three states away; stopping and calling hotels along the way: not a single one would take me and my dogs. I ended up camping in my car for three days. We stayed put for Irma precisely because the early variability in the models, and my previous inability to find a safe…

Yea, it would require serious amounts of coordination and people doing what they are told (which humans suck at). It would require laws that say you can’t compel non-essential employees to stay if an evacuation order is issued. It requires tiers of evacuation that prioritized the most vulnerable. It would require…

I’m currently in a Disney hotel and it really is full of dogs. It was pretty cool of them to change their policy for this. Even if they are making money hand over fist just in good and beverage lol

Where did it say she can’t afford her house? Maybe she just moved there and hasn’t had time to replace the roof yet or make other repairs. Did you even read the article? She knew she didn’t have the resources to shore up the house so they left. You’re making an awful lot of assumptions about these people. Not…

Yep, my cats are currently enjoying the novelty of all the porch furniture being in the house, for sure. There was no way I was leaving them. But man it’s gonna stark sucking hard in a few hours.

Yes. I was really incensed at the article on Gizmodo, yesterday, and the derision for Floridians evidenced therein. One of the reasons that people stayed put was that they were trying to let the people in the most apparent danger flee first: there is only one main highway leading out of harm’s way, apparently, — and…

The problem is that there is just no good way to move 6.5 million people quickly. Until we develop a culture as a society where we start shuttering businesses, providing leave, transportation and lodging a week ahead for an orderly evacuation, we’re going to keep having this problem.

After Charley, Florida counties rethought their no pet policies because so many people, especially the elderly, have only their pets, and would not evacuate without them. I would not leave without my pet, personally.

True, but the state government can be blamed for fucking up the instructions on how to evacuate and only being consistent about their total lack of clarity or planning. I think that’s the core of some people’s complaints, although there is the contingent of idiots complaining about weatherpeople and storms not doing…

I agree that the models do as best as they can. There was NO conspiracy to tell people that the hurricane was coming to Miami and then change it at the latest hour. Nobody knew that the forecasts were going to change at the l;atest hour...however, I agree with her in her opinion that your state is unprepared. Isn’t…

People who blame the weatherman/meteorologist really have no clue how “forecasting” works. The variables that effect the path of a storm are numerable - and even now we’re not sure what it’s going to do or how strong it will be as it moves north (and whatever else).

Until evacuation orders actually include physically moving people, saying “if you stay, you’re on your own” is not fair. Gas stations had no gas, flights out were canceled. This isn’t Harry Potter—people need to be able to leave to get out.

For the people without the means or option to leave, my heart breaks.

My mother just passed away at age 89 - her last two years consisted of eating ice cream and peanuts, washed down with vodka.
Way to go, mom...!

Probably depends on the quality of the non-dairy ice cream. Heavy cream may not be great for you, but it’s a better choice than the processed shit that goes into some non-dairy products.

They were black like my soul that no one will ever understand!

Aw man I was the lame goth girl smoking clove cigarettes....