Is There ANYTHING People Won't Politicize?

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When it comes to topics, politicians know no limits. I think they could politicize ketchup (in fact, I think they did when John Kerry, who's married to Heinz heiress Teresa Heinz, ran for president). I expect it from those sleazeballs. But honestly, people politicizing a hurricane? People who aren't from the same party as the Florida governor, Rick Scott, took to Twitter and other social media today to badmouth him for saying that people really, really, REALLY needed to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Matthew. "This storm could kill you," he said. People who didn't vote for him said that was an extreme statement. I'm old. I remember Hurricane Camille, and the 22 people killed when they laughed at the warnings. If you're young, you remember the thousands killed when they refused to leave New Orleans before Katrina plowed into the city that's four feet below sea level. That's the problem here. I grew up in Florida. I never lived more than four blocks from the ocean while in Daytona Beach. It's flatter than a pancake. A ten-foot storm surge can bury Daytona Beach from the ocean to the Halifax River. So why would ANYONE condemn a person -- no matter how much they otherwise disagree with his/her political stand -- who is trying to explain to people who don't heed other warnings (e.g., don't drive drunk, don't text and drive) that this is serious stuff? You have to remember that we haven't had a major hurricane hit the US since Wilma in 2005, and Florida hasn't had a bad hurricane since Andrew. Given that, people probably think it's nothing big. There's a documentary on Camille on You Tube where a sheriff's deputy said he tried to get people to leave the hurricane party in Mississippi. The people said they weren't leaving, and dared the policeman to arrest them. The deputy said his boss told him to get the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the partygoers' next of kin. Twenty two died at that party. Some people never learn. But badmouthing a politician who's trying to keep someone's family from having to plan a funeral along with the clean-up is not the answer.