re: #142 Big Steve

Hey why don’t you read up on hurricane Rita…it missed Houston all together. Had we stayed home we would have been just fine.

Yes, imperfect weather prediction means we shouldn’t evacuate threatened areas. All those people who got out before Katrina hit? Obviously suckers for socialism. All those people who stayed home in New Orleans thought they would be fine too.

While I think it sucks you had to deal with that, and it does indeed sound like a giant pain in the ass, your argument that the problem there was government (rather than weather) reveals a degree of commitment to ideology that exceeds your concern for human life other than your own. You very well could be dead now if that evacuation hadn’t taken place. Chance, as it turns out, was on your side. So was the government.