"Evacuating costs money, time and emotional distress. For me, sharing a cot with a few thousand others (not to mention, bathroom) in a no privacy gym or evacuation center would be a nightmare."

From what I heard, this time pets were allowed to be taken - more sensible heads had realised that many would just simply not leave without them.

"sharing a cot with a few thousand others (not to mention, bathroom)"

I hear Hell is far less pleasant - that's supposedly where I'm headed...

Of course, I suppose that people can have a right to place themselves in serious danger, but then they have no right to demand that their rescuers have to place themselves also in danger, when they suddenly decide they are not as brave as they said they were.

There are a couple more headed that way, I see on the net... if they look as threatening, we'll see what happens then.

Of course, I DO firmly believe that there was a large POLITICAL agenda this time, just to demonstrate a point that Georgie wasn't TWICE as stupid as people said he is...

"sharing a cot with a few thousand others in a no privacy gym or evacuation center would be a nightmare."

I've been to Christian Youth Camp... bunk beds and all that ... and not sharing bathrooms is pretty self centered - I do understand that some people genuinely feel distress as I did when a little kid, but my dad soon helped me get over concern about using public urinals - which is a little more confronting than what you are thinking about.... :-)

"Evacuating costs money, time and emotional distress"

Yep - drowning IS cheaper - but there was a lot of outcry about that last time... :-P