Roumors of my Demise are Greaty Exaggerated · 5:50pm Sep 13th, 2017
So, now that things are settling down from the hurricane, I should probably get back to writing Displaced Into Nothing. I'm not expecting to finish Chapter 6 for a while though: I haven't really been thinking about it since last Wednesday, when things started to get scary: when the state governor tells you "Get out now. You will not survive." and the other 4 people in the house insist that there won't even be a hurricane, you don't think about niche My Little Pony fanfiction.
I should note that, even though the hurricane broke up before it got where I was, the governor responded appropriately by pressing for evacuation. Many of the people who did not evacuate the Florida Keys and Marco Island died, and the models were showing a possible course in the hurricane which could have put this house under water. Evacuation from the coast was the rational choice, though I feel like they need to better streamline the process of getting people back into the state in the future, as this is why most people don't evacuate.
Anyway, to get back into it, I'm going to take advantage of this fresh mind state and do a revision of the existing chapters. I'll be posting another blog post of revision advice before I start that tonight, and I should be done with it in a matter of days, so expect Chapter 6 in a week or so...
To me, that was the loudest sentence in the blog. It's a serious matter whenever people die, but they deserved to die, just sitting their cocky asses in the hurricane's path. That's what they get for doing something so idiotic.
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That's a very broad statement for a very complex situation. There are numerous reasons why people don't evacuate, many of them related to the fact that we live in a Capitalist society, which means that the majority of the population has their actions heavily restricted through systemic structure. Florida has very lax labor regulations, meaning that an employer is well within their legal rights to fire an employee for leaving the mandatory evacuation zones. Combine that with the cost of driving out of the state for over a week (de-evacuation is not a streamlined process), the building standards which garuntees some form of safety in a house, and the fact that the vast majority of evacuation zones didn't even lose power. It's very understandable that certain people don't evacuate.
We need to add regulations to fix that, but that might not be possible unless the state government flips parties again, which would require a Democrat to beat Rick Scott's multi billion dollar machine next election, and start enforcing the state constitution's rules on gerrymandering.
Tldr: it's a complicated situation which stems from the very basis of the United States' society.
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That makes it even worse, that society and government are forcing people to stay there. When Haiyan hit us, the most we lost were a bunch of trees, and that's really generous, considering I live in the area that sustained >185 kph winds. Though I've never heard of people getting fired on a similar basis, even from my older cousins who are already working.
Still both sides are inane IMO, the side that forces people to stay on the threat of being fired and the side that stays anyway. A sane person would leave a crazy job that forces them to stay like that and find something else, regardless of how tough it gets. Remaining in the hurricane's path like that is still somewhat idiotic, and to an extent forced suicide.
And I've only informed myself about the electoral process and how they redraw districts on a surface level, but it's really fucked up. It's rigged but it's considered legal somehow smh