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Tropical storm Isaac disrupts Amtrak service
Better safe than sorry with these storms. They can build up in a short period of time and catch you off gaurd. I’ve lived on the gulf coast all my life and have been thru many hurricanes so I understand the railroads decision. And I’m pretty sure Amtrak doesn’t have enough cars or locomotives to take chances on loosing any of them to a storm.
What legal precedents (torts), references and presence does the Montana correspondent access?
And, if he has never gotten the “willies” when he was waiting for a hurricane to pass over home, “just a rainstorm” rates close to “forcible” or “justifiable” applied to attacks on my, your’s everyone’s cherished and adored, all youngest to oldest girls and women.
In the early to mid- 50’s an eye passed over Oceanside and Dick and I rode our bikes around downed limbs and downed power wires under a yellow-green sky for about 25 minutes and then…wind started to move, light rain started and the rest of the hurricane attacked our homes for 5 or 8 hours.
Just a rainstorm.
Wimps.
Is there justification in Montana’s stating it is just a rainstorm?
Amtrak to evacuate New Orleans? That’s a good joke. That city couldn’t even get its own bus system to evacuate people because the city is a study in what happens when socialists run things. The city would be further ahead waiting for UP and BNSF to show up with empty intermodal trains. At least the private sector knows how to keep moving in a timely fashion in spite of socialist government. Of course, unlike the taxpayer, UP and BNSF would expect to be paid for services rendered.
Wimps? Amtrak would stand to lose a couple of trainsets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Better to be safe than sorry!
A “rainstorm” that killed over 1800 people 7 years ago should be enough wake up call for common sense to kick in and people take Mother Nature seriously. It was great for Amtrak to offer to help evacuate N.O. before Katrina, but so many people had the “rainstorm” mentality, that the trains left empty and people missed another way to evacuate.
Amtrak is a transportation necessity that should be fully supported by our elected officials, but sadly, it barely exists on insufficient funding.
Due to our next to nonexistent alternate forms of transportation, the GOP was extremely lucky that Isaac did not close directly in on the Tampa Bay Area.Even if it did, and if train evacuations had been given the least little amount of consideration at the time, the last of Amtrak’s pre-storm trains had already left the stations in Tampa and Orlando, and the bus service was cancelled as well.Serves them right they got their convention schedule for planning it during the heart of hurricane season and at the beginning of the school year as college students were returning to USF and St. Pete College.
Amtrak is run by wimps. It’s just a rainstorm. Who hit the ‘panic button’?