From WSJopinion: When hurricanes are given non-threatening names like Dolly or Annie, it’s no wonder residents ignore calls to evacuate, writes Jim Sollisch
This year’s hurricane season is predicted to be a normal one. You don’t have to be a weatherman to make one forecast: There will be mandatory evacuation orders that tens of thousands of people will ignore. It happens every year.
I am fascinated by these folks. Not the ones who stay because they lack the means to leave, but the ones who say things like, “I lived through Irene, I can live through Florence.” Last year, whenever I heard that Florence was bearing down on the coast, I thought of Florence Henderson in “The Brady...
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