[Skulhedface]

Some people choose to tough out the storms, but since Highway 90 (or I-49 if you prefer) is one of the major roads out of New Orleans and happens to run less than a mile from my house, and well, locally travelling ONE BLOCK because of hurricane fleers taking over an hour seems to point to me that the majority of the people that had the capability to run in fact did so.

Many of my friends from New Orleans sure managed to get out, many of them either staying here locally, a couple even in my own house, a few fleeing as far as Shreveport, Houston or Dallas.

Surprisingly those who choose to ride out the storm, especially knowing it's a category 5, are the minority. I know this town was a ghost town when Hurricane Lili came through, and it was a category 2 by the time it hit here.

The people that stayed are mostly those who were unable to leave or in fact are just opportunistic vultures (judging from the looting and requiring martial law). Maybe 1% of the people that stayed are the types to "ride it out". When we watched the news saying that we'd be hit by the very edge of the storm with only 40 mph winds we were still bracing things in our yard and getting ready to evacuate just in case.

I fail to see why this elicits this much thought in the first place, as the people who simply "rode it out" make up such a small percentage as to be almost negligible.

Kinda like blaming one hooker for the AIDS you caught instead of the 50 whores you'd paid for over the years.

Hey, I had to squeeze in a bad metaphor SOMEWHERE.