[Foodstamp]

I don't get why hurricanes are such a big deal nowadays. When I lived on the Gulf Coast I went through a cat 4 , cat 3 and cat 2 at landfall. It was a scary deal but not nearly as scary as a tornado. Now it seems like if a cat 2 makes landfall somewhere it is the apocalypse. Must be lower lay of the land in those areas or something, but hurricanes have really become a dramatic ordeal.

It used to be: If you lived right on the water you headed north. If you lived atleast 10+ miles inland, you boarded up/taped your windows and bought enough food to ride it out. When it was over, you cleaned up your yard and did whatever repairs you needed to do and talked about it with your friends for a few weeks.

Now it seems like people want to stay in their waterfront homes to show how tough they are, and the inland people can't cope with cleaning their yard up. Then it becomes a big media circus as people are rescued off the rooftop of their ocean front home.

I think the exception to this rule is Katrina. I don't think enough was done to warn people how bad it was going to be, a hurricane hitting a city in a bowl. But Ike shouldn't have been such a serious event.

Either way, I hope the people involved in Ike are able to get their homes/lives back in order when they get power on and get back in.