Jeb taking control of FL evacuations

[SW FL Dem]

He will be issuing an Executive Order later today transferring emergency management authority from local authorities to the state of FL. 300,000 residents of coastal Palm Beach County will be subject to mandatory evacuation. No link yet, press conference on CNN.

[lebkuchen]

1. Jeb is in "control"

I feel so much safer.

:puke:

[Javaman]

15. If it's anything like the 2000 election counts you can expect...

Half to be evacuated, 25 percent to put in homeless shelters and the last 25% drowned in the Atlantic.

[demnan]

2. Well that's where the Democrats live, right?

Don't listen to this man, unless you want to fucking die. They are going to do better than last time where they just killed the vote, they want to permanently deliver the state for Bush.

[soothsayer]

3. hope he's not accidentally moving 'em into harm's way this time

That was tragic.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Didn't he do that with the last hurricane

and then evacuated the wrong areas? That's what happens when you think you're god.

He must be running out of emergency funds too. So this could get interesting.

[SW FL Dem]

6. No He didn't take control for Charley

Jeb left it up to the individual counties to order evacuations.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. But on the state level

didn't he decided to focus all of their resources just on the Tampa area, because they didn't have enough money to do more than that?

Hence, he made the wrong call and the people to the south, were not properly evacuated, so the casualties were much higher as a result.

[ClassicPalm]

13. No

All of the modeling, even up to just hours before landfall had Charley hitting Tampa. It took at turn and hit further north.

Until a hurricane actually makes landfall, where it is going to hit is an educated guess.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. Actually it hit further south

and yes the modeling was pointing at Tampa. But the zone that it could come ashore included Ft. Myers to the south and Cedar Key to the north.

If Jeb wasn't being stingy, the safest thing to do would have been to evacuate from Ft. Myers/Naples up to Tampa first. Then if the storm continued up the coast, start evacuating in consecutive order the towns north of Tampa.

Of course, the state of Florida no longer has the resources to carry out the huge evacuations that these large storms require, for that I blame Jeb directly.

[Dems Will Win]

5. He's doing the right thing

Unlike Charley when he did NOT take control and order early mandatory evacuations for the whole West Coast and hundreds died...

...and their deaths were covered up (See Michael Edwards threads).

[barbaraann]

8. As much as I dislike Jeb, I have to agree with you on this.

And this may the the first time in history a BUSH is actually putting himself in a position of real responsibility!!! I don't see how Jeb can avoid blame if this is a diaster.

Oh, and I guess it is also a tacit admission that the wrong thing was done with Charley.

[rocktivity]

7. Is there a final death toll on Hurricane Charley?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Sub Atomic]

11. I think the official count was 12 or 13.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. I think it was around 26...

[Shadder]

9. This seems a bit odd to me.

It's still too early to know where this thing is gonna hit, and most of the projections currently show it coming in north of Palm Beach County.

[MaineDem]

14. My brother-in-law has been told he's working all weekend

He works for the Town (City?) of Palm Beach and he's been told to bring a toothbrush to work tomorrow 'cause he won't be going home.