probabilityfields

Google “biggest US evacuation since Hurricane Katrina” and you’ll get stories from every news agency in the world about the California wildfires that have forced the evacuation of a measly half million people. Does anyone remember the Hurricane Rita evacuation that took place a month after Katrina? Three million people evacuated Southeast Texas and Louisiana when Rita was a huge category five in the largest exodus of Americans since the Dust Bowl. I wrote the BBC yesterday because I saw the error there first, but I received no response and it doesn’t look like anyone else cares to make the correction. So I’m angry and indignant. Bah!