Personal Responsibility...Hurricane Ike

There's a part of me that says, "if you voluntary chose to ignore mandatory evacuation orders from the Hurricane's path [and presuming you had some way of getting out]...and you didn't, well then, you should be at the absolute bottom of the list for help."

Why should other people subsidize your stupidity?

From the CNN article on Ike:

Many people, like D.J. Knight of Pearlman, Texas, decided to ride out the storm at home, despite voluntary and mandatory orders issued across the region.

"The windows looked like they would explode," said Knight, a mother of two. "It just wouldn't stop."

Now, without electricity and surrounded by flooded roads and wreckage, Knight wonders whether it was worth enduring a sleepless night as the storm shook her home, located about halfway between Galveston and Houston.

"I didn't think it would be as bad as it was," she said. "It was horrible."

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