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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
LEARN FROM US,PEOPLE - In Texas we had hurricane Rita, right after Katrina. Everyone waited, then decided to evacuate. MASSIVE TRAFFIC JAMS. People spent hours stuck on the freeways, and then the storm was no big deal. Fast forward to Ike - 3 yrs. ago. People got the evacuation order and decided to stay put. People DIED. People were swept out into the Gulf, and some of them were never found. Just google Hurricane Ike Galveston images to see the destruction. Far better to evacuate and it turn out to be no big deal than to be WRONG and DEAD. Please - if you are told to evacuate, do. Ask your loved ones to do it. Hurricanes don't play.
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All this. Growing up in and around the Gulf coast, there's a mixture of feelings about hurricane warnings. Unfortunately the little buggers are unpredictable, so when you get warning after warning that ends up being not much of anything, you can have a tendency to quit listening. And then Katrina or Ike happen.
I think Tropical Storm Allison (2001, maybe?) is a good example of what could easily happen up the East Coast - particularly the northern part. Not much wind (if Irene gets torn up on the outer banks of NC), but the damn storm sat on Houston for a couple of days and just dumped rain on SE TX, flooding everything. Yes, wind is damaging, but water can be far more so.
Good luck and play it safe East Coast folks.
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