Colleen - I 100% agree with your comments regarding evacuation. If you have the means to go.. then you should go. The poor people who don't have means, then the gov't should make sure they have a way out. And there are a lot of poor people Key West and througout the keys.

Unfortunately, here in Miami, the overall concensus is that private business owners (like where i work) do not want to release the employees early, because they lost two days with Katrina. Which is so unfortunate, that they look at it as free days off, other than giving your employees time to prepare their homes