People who stayed behind in Texas could learn a thing or two from Tina Turner.

She was smart enough to flee Ike when shit got heavy. Had Tina continued to put herself in harms way, knowing Ike was going to beat her ass, we wouldn't have had much sympathy for her would we? Let me be really clear here, hurricane Ike was no joke, and it walked a mud hole along Texas gulf coast. People were warned, threatened, pleaded with, cajoled, to leave, scram, get the fuck out while you still can. Like Davey Crockett at the Alamo facing down that Santa Claus guy , a couple hundred thousand people defied all warnings, they stayed. Before Ike had planted his boot completely up the ass of Galveston, comes this headline, "Those who stayed plead for rescue in Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Ike storms ashore". If it were up to me, we would air drop everyone who stayed a set of water wings and a pool toy. Fortunately it's not up to me. So we are spending untold money and manpower, at great risk to those who are rescuing these retards who freely chose to ride it out. I'm sorry but the only way these people will find sympathy is in the dictionary between Sailboat and Syphilis, one they could use, the other may explain the insanity of staying behind, then crying for help.

Of course everyone and their mother want to compare Ike to Katrina, even Texas Governor Perry, who made a plea that Texas get the same treatment as New Orleans did during Katrina. Apparently Governor Perry didn't catch much news during Katrina, if Texas gets the same treatment as Katrina survivors, they are gonna be up shit creek sans paddle and boat.. While Ike was certainly devastating, comparing it to Katrina is like comparing Marlon Brando with the guy who plays Ronald McDonald in commercials. They are both actors, but that's as far as it goes. First of all Fema was on Ike like stink on a fat guy in a sauna. People couldn't get out of New Orleans, because a good number of them were poor as dirt. Buses sat in lots outside New Orleans, while Mayor Nagin, the Louisiana Governor and the Feds played the blame game, leaving people to fend for themselves.

RDM raises the question of whether folks should be charged criminally, or billed for rescue efforts, of course they should, but fat chance it will happen. What will happen, what is happening now as we speak, we go in and pull these idiots out of water they had no business being in. And Bush will rain money down on Texas like manna from heaven. To the good people of Texas, who took heed and left before Ike hit, I wish you Godspeed. To the folks who build multimillion dollar beachfront homes, smack in the middle of hurricane central, and will soon be applying for disaster relief to rebuild , good luck with that, and welcome to the government tit. To the 200,000 or so idiots , who stayed, in spite of repeated warnings, a special thanks for slowing progress and draining precious resources through your selfish , idiotic, stubborn act. They say everything is big in Texas, I guess that includes morons as well.