Ike victims recall 8-mile slog to higher ground

Americans love being victims. Oh the drama of it all... "ain't me so pitiful"

8 miles... come on?... is that really a headline of note?... is it really?... people actually had to WALK EIGHT MILES?... jeezus friggin' christ... who founded this country and how did they do it?... how far did they walk?... eight miles... good god... you report the news as if everything is horrible... people actually had to walk eight miles!... omg... PEOPLE HAD TO WALK EIGHT MILES!

I'm sorry but why didn't these people leave when they were told to? I live in California and it was pretty clear to me when the government officials told them to leave or face death. What part of that is hard to understand. Wake up and be responsible for yourself!

When they say evacuate or write your SSN on your arm so they will be able to identify you, what do you expect? Why were tax dollars spent to even rescue them after they defied orders?

So now they are given clothes and food. Did anyone praise God that they were helped even with their own stupidity of staying???

I thought Texans were suppose to be smart.

this story is just a waste of space. These people where told to leave several days before the storm hit. If they don't have enough sense to leave when told to, they don't have enough sense for me to donate anything to their cause. Thats all this story is intended to do is spike donations to them. Hurricanes are just the cost of doing business. Like earthquakes and mudslides and wild fires. If you want to buy a piece of property so badly that you will not care that it is next to the ocean and 25 feet below the top of the ocean... you're an idiot. These are the things that people will do to attempt to keep up with the Jones'. The suitable property is baught up and the only thing left to sell/buy is the side of that mountain or below the ocean level... you get what you pay for and live with the results of your own stupid consequences. Do not come to me with your woe is me story and expect me to care that you are/were an idiot.

They refuse to evacuate, they have to be rescued (which we pay for), and then they're heroes? Since when do heroes stupidly put themselves in harms way and then have to be rescued? If I jump in front of a bus, get hit by said bus, and then the EMTs and doctors save me, will I be a hero too?

Unless you'v been there none of you have any thing to say. How dare you judge. I lived in New Orleans for 59 years without a "Katernia". Just like wars, depressions, divoices, deaths, earthquakes, fires, floods, and any other castotropic event the lost is great in all areas of your life. Just leave it alone is you have nothing but losey judgement to voice.

I have been there. I evacuated for Hugo in 1989 because I had small children and because my possessions are not as valuable to me as my children's lives. I cannot even imagine the parents of those two young children deciding to keep them in a trailer park in the path of a major hurricane. They should have been out of there well before Friday. Those children may never get over the terror of that night! I do feel sorry for their loss and the rebuilding that is ahead of these people, but a little common sense and personal responsibility has to prevail in these situations.