Hurricane Ike

So I experienced a hurricane and it was pretty much what I had expected it to be. Windy, wet, scary and it left the city in a huge mess. Currently I am still without electricity (writing from my clinic right now), I do have water though so things are not all that bad. The state if the city is much worse. Shortage of gas, water, food, looters looking for every opportunity to loot people, most places still don't have electricity and/or water.

Friday night was when Ike decided that it was time to make it's presence felt. It had pretty much been in the news for about a week before and was predicted to be cat 3 when it hit landfall. Galveston was one of the cities that was gonna be in the firing range first. Mandatory evacuation and all those good things had been ordered....

Here's where I being doubting whether the US really is a progressed country. When you have been forewarned that this hurricane is pretty much going to fuck your city...what is it that keeps you from evacuating the city in time??? What is the fascination in waiting till the very last minute and then suddenly getting up and being like, "OK I should have left like yesterday, but my hormones were playing seesaw and so here I am in this mess and now since I am in this shit and can't die by myself I'm gonna call the rescue people and make them risk their own lives...after all that's why they are the rescue people right???" Sure there are a few idiots all over the world, but for 20,000 people on the island not to leave, my guess is there are some messed up genes in there. A few hours before the hurricane strikes, a guy decides that it is fancy dress time and out he comes running on the beach in his bear costume!!! I mean sure, people have fetishes and eccentricities, but surely he did not believe that he would survive a hurricane dressed as a bear???

OK I still don't have power, and I'm still not happy...but I'm safe....and while I feel sorry for the community at large, I do not feel sorry for those who did not pay heed to repeated warnings and decided to risk their own lives and the lives of others....sorry but i just don't feel sorry for them