Hurricane shelters, hotels, etc

[FroggyinArk]

Just an observation about people who dont take time days in advance to find lodging,, currently all hotel rooms in our area, and for the distance south along the route we live on,, are full. there are over 800 already in shelters set up in the last large town in la,along this route, and the folks there are saying the nearest hotel rooms are over in long veiw texas, and dallas...and this is right at the ark la line, my observation is, why do these people wait? and then just drive along hoping to luck into a room somewhere? i know that friday, the forecast said south la, and i started watching th e track to set up our week , now there are people righth ere in town, that are justr driving, hoping to find a place to sleep , that had to know at least as early as i did, and could have made one or two calls, found a room, made reservations and been able to t ell family etc where they were goingto be. these people that just take off and drive have families thaat may not know till after the storm where they are or if they even got out. how do people ignore the obvious and not make preperations ahead of time?

 

[Beauty]

i have to admit i didn't pay much attention to it. i knew it was there but it was a catagory 1 and i thought it would stay weak. boy was i wrong. all of our hotel rooms are booked as well. we have three churches in the area that i know of that are staying open as shelters.

i honestly didn't know how big it was until last night when christine called me and said, hello look at the tv dufus.

 

[jajuan]

I work for hotels.com. We were sold out for the entire state of LA yesterday. As of this morning, I was booking hotels all the way in Dallas. It is unreal. I am working now and it has finally slowed down for the last time in a couple of days.

 

[FroggyinArk]

i know a lot of people dont pay much attention, but i have to keep eye on weather for work purposes, and it seems that everyone should at least know its out there, earlly enough to get a room or a place to go before they drive out.

 

[mt2]

I did this once. I learned my lesson the hard way. I have a couple of frineds that don't watch the news anymore. They haven't done it in weeks. They don't like what is being said so they have decided to quit.

I was the one who told them about the storm. They are so clueless but are good friends.

mt2