"Tim K." wrote:
"Kent Paul Dolan" wrote:
"Tim K." wrote:

Here's another one for Orlando - how about you
stay home and give us a week or two to put this
place back together before you swarm in to the
beach and get in the way.

Of course, all the merchants would much rather their
interrupted cash flow from tourism were resumed
ASAP, all those merchants' employees would like to
avoid layoffs due to lack of any business, ...

Many are closed due to damage.

And so that ones that are not should just go broke
to show solidarity?

Folks, knowing the town is a mess, are most likely
staying away in droves anyway,

You *obviously* haven't driven through all the
out-of-order traffic lights on A1A the past couple
of days.

1) Probably not, since I live in the quasi-desert
California Central Valley, and my only means of
transportation is a bicycle. My comments derive
from my former participation in the community of
tropical cyclone forecasters, not from my
proximity to the areas of devastation.

2) But why do you imagine that the situation would
not be exactly as bad as what you experience with
only native Floridians on the roads, and not all
that many of those? Roads washed out, traffic
signals gone brain-dead, trees, rubble and downed
power lines, plus repair crew barricades making
entrance to and exit from major roads a zoo ...
tourists are not a necessary ingredient to make a
mess of the morning commute, it's inherently a mess
and will remain so for weeks. The smooth, rapid
conveyance of the huge bulk of vehicles most major
roads carry can be blocked for hours by a single
traffic accident; good traffic flow is a fragile
circumstance. Blaming the problem on "tourists" is
just naive. The carrying capacity of those roads,
in the present circumstances, is probably less than
10% of normal, but pretty much all of the usual
commuter traffic is out there trying to use them as
if they were still fully functional, anyway.

A better approach than yours would be one listing
all the stuff in Orlando that IS ready, right
now, to cater to the tourist trade, to remind
potential tourists the town is still among the
living. Those tourists brave enough to show up
are brave enough to step around the cleanup
efforts, too, I'd guess.

Except that, for the most part, I could not care
less about Orlando.

Then why did you chirp in on a thread clearly
including "Orlando" in the subject line?

Don't get me wrong, I'd never wish anything bad on
anyone.

Evidence to the contrary is abundant in your
contributions to this very thread.

But jesus christ, people need to stay the hell out
of places that are storm damaged until the
infrastructure gets somewhat put back together.

Except, for reasons already documented, 1) that
won't work, it only makes the recovery even more
painful, and 2) you are looking for scapegoats for
something inherent in the situation and not, very
likely, at all related to those to whom you are
seeking to affix blame.

Don't do that, it is a form of broken mental health.

xanthian.


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