Comments on: Hello, Dolly!: Latest Hurricane News http://matadorpulse.com/hello-dolly-latest-hurricane-news/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:42:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eva http://matadorpulse.com/hello-dolly-latest-hurricane-news/comment-page-1/#comment-693 Eva Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:23:35 +0000 http://matadorpulse.com/?p=158#comment-693 We caught the edges of Dolly here in NOLA yesterday, Julie! Just enough to cool things off, though. As for hurricane tourism... if they're going close enough to see anything, they're going close enough to put themselves - and the emergency services people who have to come help them out of a jam - at risk. A category 2 storm made a direct hit on the town where I went to college a couple years back. People flocked to the beaches to "watch it arrive" - almost the only fatalities were ambulance drivers hit by falling trees while trying to get to accident scenes. The whole notion of this type of tourism has been sort of a pet peeve for me ever since... We caught the edges of Dolly here in NOLA yesterday, Julie! Just enough to cool things off, though. As for hurricane tourism… if they're going close enough to see anything, they're going close enough to put themselves – and the emergency services people who have to come help them out of a jam – at risk. A category 2 storm made a direct hit on the town where I went to college a couple years back. People flocked to the beaches to "watch it arrive" – almost the only fatalities were ambulance drivers hit by falling trees while trying to get to accident scenes. The whole notion of this type of tourism has been sort of a pet peeve for me ever since…

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