Boomers don't understand disaster zones
Anyone who's been paying attention knows that the Florida keys just got the dog shit beat out of them by hurricane Irma. There's no power, no water, and no cell phone service. I'm fortunate to be safe and sound in Tennessee, but my Facebook feed is just full of other evacuees complaining "why won't they let us go home right now?!?!" Because you can't. We have one road in and out. Parts of it physically don't exist anymore. The rest is completely covered in debris. Not just some branches and such, literal tons of sand, refrigerators, boats, cars, huge chunks of houses and mobile homes, etc. Also, why do you want to go back immediately? There's no electricity. There won't be for a long time because all the utility poles were broken and need to be replaced. You'll have no lights, no air conditioning (Florida in September is unbearable), nothing. There's no fresh water. At all. The mains coming down from Miami were broken. You'd have to bring in enough fresh water with you to last a few weeks because.... Nothing's open. You can't buy anything. The stores that didn't get destroyed in 135 mph winds don't have any stock. Trucks can't get to the stores because the highway reasons from the second paragraph. All the gas stations are destroyed. Not closed, destroyed. No gas for anyone. The national guard is trying their hardest to get the highway cleared and the 42 bridges checked for safety. You would just be in the way. The people that didn't evacuate are already becoming a burden because they need fresh water, food, and sanitation for 10,000 people. Boomers don't understand that we just went through the worst storm in recent memory. Our entire infrastructure is destroyed. So please give the hard working people of the National Guard the space to do their jobs. To check on the people who stayed. To find the missing. To treat the wounded. To get things at least livable. If your house and your things are even still there after that storm, it'll be there in a week when it will be safe for our return.
