Gov. Bush urges remaining Keys residents to ride out the storm

[sabra]

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050920/NEWS01/50920012/1075

Gov. Bush urges remaining Keys residents to ride out the storm

TALLAHASSEE -- With a strengthening storm fast approaching the Florida Straights, Gov. Jeb Bush urged remaining Keys residents to hunker down and ride out the storm this afternoon.

"If you have not left the Keys already, stay where you are," Bush said today. "This is a very serious storm that's about to hit our state."

Hurricane Rita became the ninth hurricane of the season this morning with winds nearing 85 mph and was located 75 miles southwest of Key West at 11 a.m.

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Rita's impacts will extend far away from the circulation center," the governor said, including possibly hampering future fuel supplies and recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina in South Florida.

[benburch]

1. He is corrrect about this.

No way you want to be in the traffic jam on US 1 on the bridges in a storm.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. WHY DIDN'T HE USE SCHOOL BUSSES TO GET THEM OUT!???

[Justyce]

5. no shit... if he didn't

achieve a 100% evacuation rate, then he failed according to the repubs...

[benburch]

6. I agree on that.

Hundreds of school busses in Florida. Why didn't he use them to evacuate people...

Could it be that this would have been a BAD IDEA?

Hmmm?

[bunkerbuster1]

8. HE HAD 2000 SKOOL BUS'S!!!

MY FREEPTARD FRENZ TOLL MEE!!!

er, sorry.

[babylonsister]

10. They did; I saw residents and tourists boarding busses

yesterday.

[ewagner]

3. Yup...looks like a real hurricane now..

[yellowcanine]

4. Wouldn't there still be time to send some cargo planes in and extract

a couple thousand residents?

[babylonsister]

11. The remaining residents don't want to leave, or didn't

yesterday.

[leftofcool]

7. Oh, don't worry, Jeb

If the Keys are not an ethnic community, FEMA will be there in a matter of minutes to get the good people out.

Left of Cool

[San Cocho]

9. I wouldn't leave if less than Category 3

depending on the flooding potential of course.

[SteppingRazor]

13. Me neither.

A Cat-1 or Cat-2 storm just means it's time for a hurricane party. Now pass the rum! :evilgrin:

Heck, up here in Broward County, they even made me come to work today :(

[San Cocho]

14. dang right, I lived in Puerto Rico

and "celebrated" a few hurricanes.

one was a direct hit to San Juan "Georges". It was a Category 5 just 24 hours before landfall when it went all the way down to a Cat 2.

[newyawker99]

15. Hi San Cocho!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[moobu2]

12. Find aerial photo's of buses in the area as ASAP

Jeb Bush should have asked for help sooner too.

[XanaDUer]

16. He's an asshole, but right about this.

I have driven through the keys in bad, nonhurricane storms. It was very scary then and I cannot imaging doing it in a hurricane.