Hurricane Hypothesis

Over 2 million people evacuated from the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida prior to Ivan coming ashore. If each of these people incurred costs of $300 to evacuate, the cost of the evacuation would be $6 Billion dollars. This is equal to the estimated cost of the damages incurred.

In Louisiana there were no deaths directly related to the storm. However, four elderly citizens died from stress and exhaustion while being evacuated.

Perhaps we should limit evacuation to areas that will be flooded and encourage these people to evacuate to nearby high ground instead of driving to Wichita, Kansas.
- posted by J-Birds @ 9:49 AM |