Left Behind

I hate hurricane evacuations because they amount to death sentences for about a quarter of the people--those who are left behind. A few years ago, there was one such evacuation in my town and it left behind the elderly, the sick and the poor. I would go so far as to call hurricane evacuations an abnegation of civic reponsibility.

Before laying siege to to Bint Jbeil, the Israelis dropped pamphlets on hamlets and villages ordering the people to leave, thereby condeming the sick, the poor and the elderly to death.