For days they had been warning people to evacuate Galveston, Texas. Hurricane Ike was coming and he was a serious storm.And yet they stayed.
Although the storm surge topped off at 13 1/2 feet instead of the 20+ that had been forecast, it was still a fierce hurricane.
And there were 140,000 who stayed behind and are now pissing in their pants.
Well I say, let 'em piss.
You tell me a hurricane is coming, I should evacuate, and if I stay there isn't anything anyone can do to help me, I'm outta there.
According to the AP, Sedonia Owen, 75, and her son, Lindy McKissick, defied evacuation orders in Galveston because they wanted to protect their neighborhood from possible looters. She was watching floodwaters recede from her front porch Saturday morning, armed with a shotgun.
"My neighbors told me, 'You've got my permission. Anybody who goes into my house, you can shoot them,'" said Owen.
Now I don't know what the laws are in Texas, but I don't think Miz Owen can be a hired assassin.
And who the hell is going to loot if they have to go swimming or sailing to do so?
Even Tina knew enough to finally get out of Ike's way.
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I gotta admit I probably wouldn't evacuate. A combination of just being too goddam lazy and not liking to use a strange bathroom. Then again I wouldn't expect to be rescued. Probably wouldn't even know the rescuers were there. I'd be busy trying to get the generator going so I could tune into CNN to see how bad things were.
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