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PoindexterOglethorpe

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48. In which case you are simply hoping

Tue Sep 19, 2017, 03:54 PM

Sep 2017

that the number of seats available will nicely equal or outnumber those wanting to evacuate.

Even with that, the time to have started evacuating would have been two or three days ago.

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what is being done to evacuate puerto rico? [View all] mopinko Sep 2017 OP

They are refusing to evacuate per another thread that I cannot find Not Ruth Sep 2017 #1

I have been told by a Puerto Rican friend... dubyadiprecession Sep 2017 #52

I know 3 people who are Puerto Ricans Not Ruth Sep 2017 #58

Not likely... Wounded Bear Sep 2017 #2

Have you seen the Caribbean sea this monring malaise Sep 2017 #3

so send in the navy. mopinko Sep 2017 #9

Naval ships are not safe in those storms, either obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #45

They have 500 shelters open. B2G Sep 2017 #4

With a population of 3.4 million DesertRat Sep 2017 #5

i'm sure not all of them would. mopinko Sep 2017 #10

trump can't get high enough ratings ....so probably little is being done spanone Sep 2017 #6

Cruise ships are really lousy for evacuating people inland Brother Buzz Sep 2017 #7

Where do you think these ships should be taking evacuees? onenote Sep 2017 #8

Well Maria hits tomorrow and Cruise ships only go about 30 knots. JoeStuckInOH Sep 2017 #11

Sadly, most Americans don't know that Puerto Ricans or citizens of Virgin Islands are also Americans clutterbox1830 Sep 2017 #12

Well you have a President who clearly doesn't know that Hawaii malaise Sep 2017 #29

also trump thinks climate change is a hoax bdamomma Sep 2017 #33

His presidency is a hoax malaise Sep 2017 #34

Being born and raised in Hawaii atreides1 Sep 2017 #35

So imagine Puerto Rico and the US Virgin islands which malaise Sep 2017 #43

Hell, I had a coworker (a college grad, no less) who didn't know New Mexico was Nay Sep 2017 #78

You want to see a greytdemocrat Sep 2017 #13

Too late... sarisataka Sep 2017 #14

Large-scale evacuations are disastrous events in themselves, Mopinko. Hortensis Sep 2017 #15

ok, i only know what the media says, and that could well be full of it, but mopinko Sep 2017 #19

Let's face it, the media search out problems and create them out of nothing Hortensis Sep 2017 #21

yeah, i know. why i qualified what i said, but mopinko Sep 2017 #22

The situation with Harvey was different TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #26

Very good points. The media train us to expect the worst of "the system" Hortensis Sep 2017 #73

The real disaster will be in the Virgin Islands malaise Sep 2017 #30

yeah, they should have been rescued a couple days ago. mopinko Sep 2017 #31

Our government got a lot of our people out of St Martin via Antigua malaise Sep 2017 #32

Because SOFL isn't Houston obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #46

Evacuation was horrific on the roads from Florida most gas stations were out of gas FloridaBlues Sep 2017 #51

Thanks for sharing some reality! COLGATE4 Sep 2017 #53

Thank you. cwydro Sep 2017 #71

I respect the passion... GulfCoast66 Sep 2017 #16

i have peeps in fla, and i felt the same way. but mopinko Sep 2017 #18

Sure. Same as the keys GulfCoast66 Sep 2017 #20

ok, i am just asking where the option to evacuate is. mopinko Sep 2017 #23

The option is 'Head for the Hills, Brother' Brother Buzz Sep 2017 #24

i know how many people are there, i am not suggesting that they all leave mopinko Sep 2017 #17

Again, how are you going to control an evacuation situation onenote Sep 2017 #25

This is like FB posts I kept getting before Irma obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #41

They were no real evacuations in Florida obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #40

I think Houston did pretty damn well, all things considered. Mariana Sep 2017 #55

Even if ships and planes were available, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #27

again. i have said over and over that i dont think every single person mopinko Sep 2017 #28

In which case you are simply hoping PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #48

tru dat. mopinko Sep 2017 #50

Slow moving? PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #69

Maria was a fast developing storm onenote Sep 2017 #68

Naval ships aren't configured for hundreds of thousands of passengers. And they've been known to WinkyDink Sep 2017 #64

Yup, it is impossible obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #37

just sayin that people who dont want to shelter in place mopinko Sep 2017 #57

It is impossible to evacuate people like that obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #36

Yep. Magical thinking at it's finest. nt B2G Sep 2017 #38

yeah, for the umpeenth time, i am not suggesting evacuating all. mopinko Sep 2017 #39

It is their home obamanut2012 Sep 2017 #44

i get that, but at the same time, back to my main point mopinko Sep 2017 #56

Here's a map. Again, where is this evacuation flotilla coming from and where is it going? onenote Sep 2017 #47

Nobody is safe in a Cat 5 hurricane! MoonRiver Sep 2017 #42

+1 FLPanhandle Sep 2017 #49

i'm not claiming expertise, nor expressing an opinion about whether people should mopinko Sep 2017 #60

This! TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #75

God be with them all down there tonight. roamer65 Sep 2017 #54

Mother nature, natural selection obliviously Sep 2017 #59

that's a pretty sad statement mopinko Sep 2017 #61

It's not what you hear in sunday school. obliviously Sep 2017 #62

no, the nuns taught me mopinko Sep 2017 #63

We're on the Earth like ticks on a dog obliviously Sep 2017 #66

Irrelevance is often simplistic petulance. LanternWaste Sep 2017 #72

Here's the bottom line: Not every natural catastrophe can be avoided. WinkyDink Sep 2017 #65

who said that? mopinko Sep 2017 #67

Okay, substitute "minimizing the impact." "We better get better at" is a wish, a WinkyDink Sep 2017 #74

Needd some numbers whistler162 Sep 2017 #70

Good thing climate change isnt real, otherwise we might be able to do something Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #76

and cost money they already have plans for. mopinko Sep 2017 #77

We need George Soros and other billionaires to pay for their relocation to the US Fluke a Snooker Sep 2017 #79