When the going gets tough, the government goes after the tough

[infrogmation]

Galveston area after Ike:

Authorities vow to force holdouts off Texas coastSeems to be the accepted operating procedure now. When things get tough, government does a forced removal of citizens, including (especially?) those who were well prepared to deal with tough times

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[petalbreeze]

On one hand, I don't have much pity for the folks who stayed in their homes or at least tried to. They had been warned that this storm was very destructive. The folks who are bitching about not having a toilet should have bought a few camping toilets, which we did when we knew we were heading into "third world" conditions in Mississippi for at least a few weeks after the demon storm (I still refuse to call it that beautiful name, even 3 years later). Ultimately, you have to empty them or they get nasty fast. We emptied ours into the portolets when they were put in place in our neighborhood. We learned to use the camp toilet only in the direst emergency once the portolets arrived. The portlets were in our neighborhood for at least two months, maybe three, while our lift station was being rebuilt. It will probably take the public works people in Galveston the better part of a month or two to repair damaged lift stations, etc. If you can't stand the heat

[asienieizi]

As one who did stay, I feeled compelled to say once again, not everyone who did stay asked for pity nor anything else. Not even a single MRE nor one single bottle of water was asked for.

And yes, Gus and Ike have indeed brought back a lot of unpleasant aftermath memories.
I wonder if we'll ever get over them, sometimes.

[asienieizi]

See, this still confuses me. When Katrina hit and just prior to losing our am radio station, I heard the commentator say that those who opted to stay were being visited by authorities for identifying marks, etc. in case their bodies needed to be ID'd later. I never heard anything about anyone being forcibly ejected from their homes.