Hurricane Ike

This past weekend hurricane Ike was predicted to blow through the state of Texas. Many news stations and whether channels started to notify the residence to an emergency evacuation three days before the storm was going to hit, and to leave their homes before the storm touched down. When the people were told how severe the storm was some of them listened and evacuated from their homes and some were gutsy enough to stay home. According to stormpulse.com, the hurricane was on pace to hit Texas with 145mph winds late Saturday night. Most people started to leave early Friday morning and some evacuated Thursday evening.

Hurricane Ike was a category 4 storm which caused a large amount of damage.
news.nationalgeographic.com says that the cost of damage reach up to 22 billion dollars. After hurricane Ike struck, the Red Cross sheltered more than 20,000 people across four different states. For the people who were trapped or did not leave their homes red cross sent out 120 emergency vehicles, and 2,500 worker to rescue these people. Rescues such as hurricane Ike takes an enormous amount of money to cover the cost of the rescue, which means that we as tax payers know that the money that we give to the government is going to a good cause and saving peoples lives.

the people who stayed in their homes and had the opportunity to leave before the storm hit leaves a question of the responsibility of the government. The question is should the Government be blamed for these people not evacuating. I personally think that they should not be blames because the Government did everything that they could to inform the people of the hurricane. I would not expect the government to go and knock on people's door telling them to leave. The Government is there to help and protect us in every way possible, but if someone does not want to leave their home they just want leave no matter what the case may be. People in our Government put their lives on the line for us as much as they can such as the rescuers for this storm, but rescue crews are not cheap. I say that because for the people that stayed behind must not know that the Government can't just send people out and say go rescue the people who stayed in their homes because that cost a large amount of money, which does not make the task easy. The rescue is also dangerous according to Dallas news some rescues were put on hold do to the danger of flood water which contained chemicals that might cause illness and damage the skin. I think that the Government should not be blamed for not rescuing people who stayed back because they are doing the best that they can, but I do think that the Government could do something for them. Although, some people think that the Government is wrong, I feel that the people who were notified should have tried to evacuate.