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I find it weird that the title of the article focuses on them so much, but it seems like the barricades there were due to the downed electrical wire or to keep
by SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
I find it weird that the title of the article focuses on them so much, but it seems like the barricades there were due to the downed electrical wire or to keep people away from other areas that were on fire. Timed differently driving around the barricade one could have ended up in a worse situation than they already were.
Hindsight is of little value to those who were making decisions in the moment, but really, "make your own rules during an emergency" seems like it isn't guaranteed to be effective. You're just as likely to be adding to the problem as anything.
- mvdtnz 3y agoA worse situation than burning alive in your car?
- croes 3y agoYou might die precisely because you dodged the barricade and would otherwise have survived.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoRemember - you don't have much information at that moment. You could have driven right into a fire or into a tangle of live power lines. You could have endangered the lives of the road crew working on the power lines, or could have caused an incident that prevented the road from being opened at all, preventing anyone from escaping that way - you don't know when or if it was going to be reopened. So possibly worse? Absolutely. And keep in mind that the "burning alive in your car" wasn't a guaranteed outcome here - many people survived.