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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DeSantis - and local officials - are starting to get called out in local media for failing to raise the alarm early enough in the parts of Florida that were destroyed by Ian

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2022/09/30/ian-turned-southwest-florida-scrambled-was-there-enough-time-leave/

People literally drowned in their own houses because these areas weren't evacuated early enough - they didn't give people enough time to prepare and get out.

There is a quote in here from someone who said that listening to the governor and local officials, she'd have stayed home - it took the weather report telling her how serious this was.
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This is complete BS.  Nice try, though.  Anyone who chose not to evacuate is fully to blame for their consequences.

The day before the storm he called “the big one” arrived, Florida’s governor met with residents of the state’s vulnerable Gulf Coast. His first and firmest message was: Get out. “You have the potential for 10, 15 feet of storm surge that can absolutely be life threatening,” he said Tuesday at the Sarasota Emergency Operations Center. He demanded that everyone evacuate, saying “those orders are not taken lightly.”

Mr. DeSantis had gotten an early start. To free up Federal Emergency Management Administration money for rescue work and debris removal, “he called it an emergency before it was even a tropical storm,” Mr. Arroyo says. That declaration came five days before Hurricane Ian made landfall.

At the time meteorologists projected that Ian would touch down as a Category 3 storm, rather than the 155-mile-an-hour Category 4 force it became. Nonetheless, Mr. Arroyo says the governor sent more state support than usual. “Since the last storm, a big difference is that Gov. DeSantis has the Florida guard,” he says, referring to the Florida State Guard, established in June. The governor ordered members of the state-funded civilian force to affected zones along with National Guardsmen. “They had hundreds of people in armories just ready to go.”

Back in Tallahassee that evening, Mr. DeSantis briefed the press on the destruction in Lee County, search-and-rescue operations, and food and shelter options for displaced people. He acknowledged that the death toll is certain to rise. But he also echoed some of the Sarasota mayor’s optimism. “There have been more than 700 confirmed rescues,” he said. “Two hundred thousand accounts have been restored in Southwest Florida,” he said of the power outages, because “the pre-staging for this was over 42,000 linemen.” His remarks were fairly short on thoughts and prayers and long on initial measures of progress.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-hurricane-test-for-the-florida-model-ron-desantis-hurricane-ian-election-governor-storm-emergency-economic-freedom-11664570975?mod=hp_trending_now_opn_pos3[/quote]

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