An eight year old girl was killed when a tree fell on the mobile home she lived in:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/cont ... e0916.html
People with young kids should go to the shelter unless their homes are rock solid.
The dangers of riding it out ...
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Miss Mary
I think all on this board agree with you. In fact, after Punta Gorda, I am amazed anyone within the cone remains in their mobile home. This was a sad death - it could have easily been avoided. This little girl should be in a shelter right now playing board games to pass the time. I don't know what the answer is here. Local officials are inundated with alerting citizens of impending severe wx in a case like this. To forcibly go in there and make sure the family vacates to a shelter is probably impossible. A lawyer would tell us that - so much red tape.
If anything, you know her family is deeply regretting this decision today. And in time, maybe her parents should be interviewed to ask others living in mobile homes to evacuate. Obviously their grief is too raw now but maybe next season, CNN, FOX and TWC could interview people who decided to stay put and were in put in harm's way or lost a family member to the hurricane and/or a spawned tornado from it. First hand accounts with devastating results speak volumes. For the best example I have for that, is I am ever in a high rise fire, I will go down to street level ASAP, no matter if I'm told to stay put or not, after 9/11.
So sad.
Mary
If anything, you know her family is deeply regretting this decision today. And in time, maybe her parents should be interviewed to ask others living in mobile homes to evacuate. Obviously their grief is too raw now but maybe next season, CNN, FOX and TWC could interview people who decided to stay put and were in put in harm's way or lost a family member to the hurricane and/or a spawned tornado from it. First hand accounts with devastating results speak volumes. For the best example I have for that, is I am ever in a high rise fire, I will go down to street level ASAP, no matter if I'm told to stay put or not, after 9/11.
So sad.
Mary
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CNN spoke with a law officer this morning and it was actually a house she was in. They double checked since it had previously been reported it was a mobile home and he repeated that no it was a house that was hit by the tree where this girl was killed.
Still not good to stay in the area of a hurricane but when you talk about rain saturating the ground it does not take hurricane or tornadoes to uproot them. Pine trees have particularly shallow roots and the South is full of pines.
Still not good to stay in the area of a hurricane but when you talk about rain saturating the ground it does not take hurricane or tornadoes to uproot them. Pine trees have particularly shallow roots and the South is full of pines.
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