It's been almost 3 weeks since Hurricane Ike made landfall in Galveston Island and still hundreds are missing... Some estimates are near 400 people which is astounding!!! I'm actually very disappointed in the media on this one... I fully understand that we are in the middle of a presidential election and also that our economy is in trouble, but how do you not make a bigger deal of that? Is money really more important than human lives??? If the missing is not found were looking at the deadliest hurricane since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane which killed 408 people... Even if half are found, it would be the deadliest hurricane excluding Katrina since Camille in 1969!
In this day and age that is unacceptable!!! I understand that over 1,800 people died in Katrina with hundreds still "missing" but lets not minimize Ike's impact here... I know especially in today's society if it's not the worst case scenario then it's really not that news worthy... It's almost like we are constantly searching for the worst possible scenario, hyping it up as much as possible, and when it doesn't happen were like that wasn't that bad... I promise you that if 400 people really did die from Hurricane Ike, that is not only historic but a HUGE deal!!! Since Katrina if a hurricane doesn't kill 1,000 + people then it's only news worthy for a few days... Also bad hurricanes like Rita for example are severely downplayed because it wasn't as bad as Katrina! Honestly though, what is? That is so incredibly ridiculous to me and if the levees didn't break in New Orleans almost a day later, I really think they would be talking about Hurricane Ike is a completely different light!
Unfortunately I think Ike will easily be in the top 20 deadliest US hurricanes if not the top 10 when it's all said and done... Also if you just look at the direct impact of the storm and not the outside impacts like levees breaking a day later, Ike will go down as one the deadliest direct impact hurricanes in a LONG TIME!!! Remember even in Camille most of the deaths occurred in Virginia because of flash flooding... If it really is 400 people lets just think about that for a second... In today's age that should never happen with the public warning system we have from the NHC, NWS, Media, FEMA, US Government, Local Government, etc... I still truly believe from the bottom on my heart that a lot of people didn't leave because Ike was only a "Cat-2"... That is a whole different issue in itself but the hurricane scale HAS to be overhauled if for anything peoples safety!!! I don't mean to go off, but I really don't understand how this story hasn't received more press???
Hurricane Ike Missing (Older Story)
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