An Andrew survivor e-mails:

Your reader in Oldsmar, Florida, is “not going to pay attention to any mandatory evacuation notices until somebody can say with certainty that the hurricane is going to hit within in a few hours.” Fine. I hope s/he enjoys riding out the next hurricane in the middle of a grid-locked highway as hundreds of thousands of like-minded cynics attempt to flee a major metropolitan area at the same time. Tampa Bay residents may have been inconvenienced, but if the Charley had continued on its projected path, they would’ve been in real danger (14-foot storm surge, anyone?). Jeb Bush is not the “boy who cried wolf.” He was doing his job.