Passive Hurricane Evacuation

The time to do passive hurricane evacuation is years and months prior to a known hurricane emergency, even prior to a suspected hurricane emergency. As soon as a suspected hurricane emergency might happen, it is time to get those sandbags, time to go out there and do basement and berm evacuation, time to get the shelter residents to higher ground, time to move from passive evacuation to active media bombardment and pro-active hurricane preparation education.

Immersing the general public with fun ideas of fun places to go away from the areas where a hurricane is likely to strike during hurricane season is a necessary thing to do. Tourism creates jobs, people with jobs stay in the areas where more tourists happen, more population means more recycling opportunities, more recycling means more jobs and more materials, more materials means more opportunities for green manufacturing, more green manufacturing means more high-end American-made consumer goods.

Living life to its fullest is important. Everybody wants entertainment, socialization, and fulfillment after achieving their basic needs. We can direct human traffic to places out of the hurricane zone, as people with money have the liberty to go to other places and to spend money where summer visitors are wanted to be. People go places, people are market-driven, people want to see and hear what people find to be entertaining.

We need to investigate the possibility of river flooding or other disasters that also might happen in the summer when doing events. We need to avoid the flood plain when working on driving traffic towards a community. This is why a community such as Binghamton, New York, where the Susquehanna River flooded recently is to be avoided. I also think that Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a community close to the Mississippi River, is also a community to be cautious about driving tourist traffic to.