she/they. formerly ughhniam🥸
Jokes aside though, please evacuate
Here is what gets me about people asking us to evacuate: with what money? With what gas? Last I heard the drive to Orlando from Miami (which is SUPPOSED to be 3:30 hrs) was at a 12 hr drive and Irma is supposed to go up the peninsula anyway so??? Are we supposed to fly out? The airports are so jam packed it isn’t worth discussing and even if a family could get out in time, where would they stay? Who has the money to book a flight (where the prices are only reduced one way), hotel, cab, food, and every other expense that comes with traveling, then a flight back into the city which will surely be in shambles upon their return?
Fleeing is an option for tourists and the rich. We stay because we can’t afford to leave. Because someone has to help rebuild. Because some of us have work on Monday. We stay because we have nowhere to go. Miami might be on the continent, but it takes 12 hrs to drive out of this state and the highways are clogged. Where is it exactly that people expect us to evacuate to?