It’s stupid to dress like a nazi or do blackface period. But especially in the internet age. Like seriously did you not think about it for even two seconds?! And who are their friends? Because my friends would be like whoa, that’s not cool, man.

If I was in Florida, that’s where I would have headed. Closer than Georgia, above Lake Okechobee, lots and lots of poured-concrete buildings, the whole complex located in the Reedy Creek Improvement District, and many employees working there who have years and years of experience weathering all kinds of storms. Not…

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

The most sensible taek.

Exactly. That’s precisely what happened to my friend and her husband. What were they supposed to do, teleport out of Florida?

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.

I’ve heard from a few people that the Disney resort hotels are absolutely packed with dogs right now, as they’ve opened up their policy to allow pets in light of what’s going on. (Apparently, it’s sort of a go-to for locals to check in, as hotels are built to withstand more than the average home.) Good for Disney for…

Wrong. Anyone who has stayed behind is an poor, elderly, disabled, single mother of color who doesn’t own a car and has to report to work during the hurricane otherwise she’ll be fired.

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…

People with disabilities, the elderly, people in labor, people who have pets, people who are first responders or in the medical profession, people who couldn’t get gas in time or whose car broke down, people whose jobs wouldn’t wait for them to come back, there’s a lot of reasons and ways you could end up staying when…

I know. What bullshit.

There is a Washington Post story (from July) about how unprepared Tampa is and how blind our authorities are to the rising sea level and the effects of climate change. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/health/environment/tampa-bay-climate-change/?utm_term=.0a8aa70a91fd

It’s a libertarian paradise.

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.