There was no big meeting place with buses that would transport the sick and the elderly (those living independently or with family members) and the poor and the carless. That does not exist. If you cannot leave town of your own accord and by your own means -- you don't leave town. Simple as that.
:: boggle ::
This whole time, I'd been assuming that there *was* something like that going on, but that they just didn't have enough time to get everyone, or people (the old & infirm especially) weren't able to even get to the central point.
Because... WOULDN'T THE NECESSITY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS BE SELF-EVIDENT? I mean, if you live someplace where there's a good chance that a natural disaster will kill thousands, and it's a disaster that gives you a good long warning, wouldn't it behoove a responsible local government to PLAN SOMETHING?
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Date: 2005-08-31 07:13 pm (UTC):: boggle ::
This whole time, I'd been assuming that there *was* something like that going on, but that they just didn't have enough time to get everyone, or people (the old & infirm especially) weren't able to even get to the central point.
Because... WOULDN'T THE NECESSITY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS BE SELF-EVIDENT? I mean, if you live someplace where there's a good chance that a natural disaster will kill thousands, and it's a disaster that gives you a good long warning, wouldn't it behoove a responsible local government to PLAN SOMETHING?
Gah!