One thing that I keep seeing and I don't understand

[Horse with no Name]

I keep seeing people being rescued without shoes on!
Geez...I've lived in tornado alley for years and everytime we have a warning--that is part of the drill.
Everyone puts shoes and clothes on--no matter what time of day or night.
If you get displaced from your stuff--you at least have that.
How sad.:(

[MsTryska]

1. maybe they lost their shoes wading around in the water? nt

nt

[bribri16]

12. maybe they didn't have any shoes. n/t

[Booster]

2. That pretty much goes for any disaster. Here in CA we are told to

keep a pair of shoes by the bed in case of an earthquake. During one, a guy went running through his house for the front door and his feet were a bloody mess by the time he reached the door.

[DURHAM D]

3. It is much easer to walk in water without shoes so they probably

took them off.

[Dhalgren]

6. Crap! The worse thing you can do in flood waters is go barefoot!

It isn't that you don't know what's under the water - you know exactly what probably IS under there!

[DURHAM D]

8. I said it was easier - is that crap ?

And, why are you soooo angry ?

[Dhalgren]

15. Sorry, it must have come out angry, unintentionally - I promise.

I was just exclaiming because I was once in a flooded area - barefoot - and I cut my feet to ribbons; it was not a pretty sight! Sorry if I came off belligerent - it was not my intent. :hi:

[seabeyond]

4. bah hahahah, i have only lived in tornado alley for over a decade

i never put on shoes and clothes, nor do i make the kids. duh, to me. lol. how stupid of me. we run to basement, back closet, have a foam mattress pillows and blankies, but never, girl, never thought of thos damn shoes, lol lol. oh bad me

will have to do in future. thanks

[elehhhhna]

5. I didn't either. Husband pointed it out.

And I think I know EVERYTHING.

lol

[seabeyond]

10. oh well, see...... difference between you and me, lol

i KNOW i dont know EVerYthINg. lol.

that is funny elehhhhhna. hubby going to get in trouble. really this is his department. he failed me. wink

[shraby]

9. I used to have some helmets to put on the kids too.

[calico1]

7. They could have been wearing sandals or

flip flops. I have seen that happen a lot in hurricanes I have lived through. People wear sandals and somewhere along the line they lose one or both. A lot of people don't want to wear shoes because they don't want wet shoes/wet feet. So they just wear sandals.

[WinkyDink]

11. One sliced and infected foot,

and they'll put shoes on right quick.

[Ready4Change]

13. To get to roofs, shoes probably got soaked.

Once on the roof they took the shoes off to dry out during the hours spent just sitting around.

When a copter or boat shows up, in the excitement, they forget shoes.

That's my guess.

[thecrow]

14. CNN said that the water came in so fast they didn't

have time to put their shoes on.
I think the directions to put your shoes and clothes on at the start of a weather event is the best advice I've seen.
A lot of these people were hanging out and then the water came in and they barely had time to get upstairs before their homes were flooded.

[Individualist]

16. WDSU reported the same thing

The storm surge caused water to rise so fast people hardly had time to get to safety.

[liberalitch]

17. Things happen during natural disasters that knock folks...

out of their shoes.

Weird