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How unpleasant an evacuation is makes a big difference if the person’s home doesn’t get hit. My father had a bad evacuation experience out of New Orleans for a hurricane that missed a direct hit on the city, and he swore for any future hurricanes he would “go down with the ship.” He stayed for Katrina; my sisters left him two mae wests and got the hell out of Dodge. The ground level floor* flooded over three feet. After several days in the high heat some cops from north Louisiana came by in a boat and ferried him to a bus, which by then was routed to more distant Dallas.
He evacuated for Gustav in 2008.
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*In New Orleans we call ground floors of multi-story houses “basements.”
How unpleasant an evacuation is makes a big difference if the person’s home doesn’t get hit. My father had a bad evacuation experience out of New Orleans for a hurricane that missed a direct hit on the city, and he swore for any future hurricanes he would “go down with the ship.” He stayed for Katrina; my sisters left him two mae wests and got the hell out of Dodge. The ground level floor* flooded over three feet. After several days in the high heat some cops from north Louisiana came by in a boat and ferried him to a bus, which by then was routed to more distant Dallas.
He evacuated for Gustav in 2008.
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*In New Orleans we call ground floors of multi-story houses “basements.”