So when Florida orders evacuations......

[Liberal Veteran]

What do all the people who work at Wal-Mart, Gas Stations, and other places do?

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. they have taken up hotel rooms

every cheap hotel from miami to west virginia is taken

[Liberal Veteran]

2. I guess maybe I wasn't specific enough....

I was saying those places usually don't close in time to evacuate, so what happens to them?

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. they will probably hafta hunker down in the wally-worlds

the gas station guys would leave

[Catt03]

10. Well to defend the rich

One woman interviewed was really upset because high test gas was sold out and she could not fill up her BMW to get the hell out of Dodge.

Boca Babes have feelings too.:-)

[slutticus]

14. I saw that!

Good greif....

I couldn't believe what I was reading!

<snip>

Patricia Thomas wanted to get out of town Thursday and escape Hurricane Frances, but she couldn't find the high-octane gas her BMW coupe requires.

"No one has the high grade," the 40-year-old Vero Beach woman said, as she was stymied at her sixth station. She was mad and her eyes were puffy and red. She appeared to have been crying.

"I just want to fill up my car and get far away from here," she said. "I'm mad, I'm frustrated, I'm scared. I'm not in a good place right now."

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/9566096.htm

[mermaid]

4. Well, Let Me Give You The CYNICAL Answer...

Who gives a shit about the poor-ass workers, anyway?!?!
PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE, ALWAYS...especially when the people at risk are poor-asses, immigrants, etc...who gives a shit about THEM??

Let THEM go down with the Titanic, as long as the "good" people get THEIR sweet little asses outta Dodge!!

Does that answer your question?

P.S. I'm a liberal, and I hope you understand I do not support or condone what I just wrote...I'm just stating the sad fucking reality...

[Liberal Veteran]

6. That's sorta what I was getting at.....

I wonder if anyone thinks about how that gas station attendant making minimum wage is going to get out of town?

[mermaid]

9. No, They Don't

All they care about are their precious profits...and getting their OWN sweet asses outta Dodge, like I said before.
Who gives a shit about the minimum wage worker at a gas station who has to saty behind? fuck him, he's easy to replace...minimum wage workers are a dime a dozen, aren't they.

Fuck capitalism!!

[KoKo]

12. You have a good point...in my area folks in "mobile homes" are told to

go "lie in a ditch" until the "hurricane/tornado passes." You can also "drown" in a ditch...but after all the Armageddonists think this is what we all should expect...so why fight it if you're poor...just lie down and let "GOD" take you... (not meaning to get any other DU'ers angry with me, either) but the fact of life in today's America is that you either are "priviledged enough to be "gated" or you live in the "mobile home park." It's up to you...:shrug: Or, according to "Chimpnomics" it's to whom You Were Born..

[fishnfla]

5. Not all residents are ordered out

it is for people that live along the beaches, in low lying areas, or in mobile homes, or barrier islands, etc. People that live inland are not in evacuation zones

The employees that dont live in those areas can still work. Hopefully they get overtime or better compensation. (Edit to add: some employers allow their employees to stay at the work locations, if it is safer than their home. If we leave we are going to one of our offices with a bunch of our staff, because it is inland and safe, we are not open for business though)

When the storm gets close to landfall, everything shuts down.

[hang a left]

7. Update on evacuations

Florida Orders 2.5 Million Residents to Evacuate Atlantic Coast As Hurricane Frances Approaches

Jennie Amsel, 104, far left, and Patricia Henkel, third from left, are helped to awaiting ambulances that will evacuate them from a Miami Beach, Fla., assisted living facility, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004, by unidentified workers. More than a million people threatened by Hurricane Frances were told to evacuate Thursday (AP Photo/Bill Cooke)
09-02-2004 2:22 PM
By TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press Writer

Listen to audio
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Residents and tourists in cars, trucks and campers clogged highways Thursday in the biggest evacuation ever ordered in Florida, fleeing inland as mighty Hurricane Frances threatened the state with its second battering in three weeks.

About 2.5 million residents were told to clear out ahead of what could be the most powerful storm to hit Florida in a decade. Other people in the 300-mile stretch covered by the hurricane warning rushed to fortify their homes with plywood and storm shutters, and buy water, gas and canned food.

Already a Category 4 storm with 145-mph winds and the potential to push ashore waves up to 15 feet high, Frances could make itself felt in the state by midmorning Friday.

At 2 p.m. EDT, the hurricane was centered 410 miles southeast of West Palm Beach and was moving at close to 13 mph.



http://sandiego.cox.net/cci/newsnational/national?_mode...

[Blue Wally]

11. Evacuation Zones

Each County in Florida has "evacuation zones" which are evacuated on a mandatory basis. Each county sets up evacuation shelters (usually schools) where the people being evacuated can go. If you live in a mobile home or you feel your home is not safe, you can also go to the shelter. The philosophy is to only evacuate within your own county. All of these people clogging the roads are just running away cause "a hurricane is coming". Most of them are not from evacuation zones and may possibly be fleeing right into the path of the hurricane. i am in an evacaution zone. We haven't been ordered out yet (Broward County). If we are, we will go to a local High School which is a designated shleter (the car is packed). If we are not ordered out, we will ride it out in our house (which is built to post-Andrew code,

[IronLionZion]

8. rich people can evacuate, the poor must stay

if they don't like it then they should have thought about that before being poor


/sarcasm

I don't condone that at all. I think they should get out as well.

[MUSTANG_2004]

15. I think you have a misconception about evacuations

Being evacuated doesn't mean you have to flee the area. It means that you're either in a mobile home or in a low-lying coastal area likely to be flooded by storm surge.

Being poor makes little difference, as it takes very little to get out of an evacuation zone. In most cases, staying at a friend's home or apartment a few blocks further away from the water is enough.

Our neighborhood was evacuated for Charley. Some people left the county entirely, but others were like us and stayed for free in nearby homes of friends/family that were far enough away from the water to be out of the evacuation zone.

[Ravy]

13. Generally the rich live in the evacuation zones.. while the poorer

people live inland.

Rich = lands bought and made habitable only by lots of $$$$ with lots of environmental issues


Poor = normal lands and sometimes those that flood inland, but nothing with VIEWS or environmental issues beyond dumping toxic wastes.


Therefore, the poor can always service the rich while the rich high-tail it out of dodge and leave the poor to defend for themselves.

Nothing new here. Same old ****, different day, different era.