As Hurricane Season Looms, States Aim to Scare

As Hurricane Season Looms, States Aim to Scare
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MIAMI, May 30 - Convinced that tough tactics are needed, officials in
hurricane-prone states are trumpeting dire warnings about the storm season
that starts on Thursday, preaching self-reliance and prodding the public to
prepare early and well.

Cities are circulating storm-preparation checklists, counties are holding
hurricane expositions at shopping malls and states are dangling carrots like
free home inspections and tax-free storm supplies in hopes of conquering
complacency.

But the main strategy, it seems, is to scare the multitudes of people who
emergency officials say remain blasé even after last year's record-breaking
storm season.

George Z. Bush...

Don't you think that strategy might have a little something to recommend it
as a course of action?
Seems to me that if more of that had happened, it's perfectly conceivable
that some of the thousands of people who died in the Katrina disaster might
have been scared enough to get their acts together and gotten themselves out
of the way of danger instead of just packing it in and becoming casualties.
That'd make it worth while in my book.

George Z.

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