day no. 15,625 continued... hurricane season

Last Friday I had the following thought.

Each year, we have hurricane season. It comes predictably every year. Some years the activity is worse than others, but every year it comes. The Weather Channel predicts where and when the storm cells will grow and strike and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. When they do, they impact those living the areas where hurricanes frequent, disproportionately so. Living in the Midwest, I see the annual weather-porn about the growing fury ready to wreak havoc on the coastlines. But as a Midwesterner, I do not worry about my days being disrupted by the hurricane. Since I work in insurance, my life could potentially be impacted more than most Midwesterners, but even then, it's not much. It's impacted downstream and a tertiary impact, but not directly like those living on the East Coast or near the Gulf of Mexico. So it's safe to say that MOST people are NOT directly, negatively impacted by hurricane season. 

Now imagine if the predictions of a particular hurricane season were rather dire. Now imagine they were so dire that they recommended all local residents evacuating for let's say fifteen days to let the dust settle and to save lives. Now imagine it's so dire that the government stepped in to force people to evacuate. Now imagine it's so dire that the same government forbid travel for people for whom the hurricanes could not possibly impact, like myself in the Midwest. Now imagine the the National Weather Service said the science says everyone needs to board up their windows and that no one should attempt travel of any kind to anywhere. Now imagine The Weather Channel because the sole proprietor of climate related truth and that the National Weather Service became the new de facto rulers of the world with the bill of rights folded in its right hand. Also imagine that those with coastline mansion continued to live in them largely unimpacted by the hurricanes, while those living in apartments more than a thousand miles inland were facing homelessness. 

That would be crazy, right?  Right?