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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ya'll don't remember the dead bodies floating around New Orleans after Katrina?

I don't know why those in an evacuation area don't drive 7 miles inland to a school shelter or drive 2 hours over to Orlando.  In Orlando you can at least sit in an air conditioned hotel lobby if no rooms are available.

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My good friends in Tampa zone 2 (or B) finally agreed to leave but they’re only going to Lakeland but something is better than nothing.

I sat next to a man from Gulfport 2 weeks after Katrina hit at a work dinner in Chicago who had only stayed because his MIL refused to leave, so his wife refused to leave her mother and the man refused to leave his wife. He said the only way they survived was by going into the attic where there was a freestanding chimney column (meaning it wasn’t attached to the wall, you could walk all the way around the column) and they formed a circle among the three of them around the column, hugging it and holding each other’s arms while tying themselves to one another with belts. I will never forget this conversation. He said “if you ever find yourself being told to evacuate, remember my story. I have no idea how we made it.

I’m not making this up. Katrina was a category 3 when it went over Gulfport before New Orleans. He said the house flooded and roof was practically torn off. [/quote]

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