With Disney World and other area attractions shutting down as Hurricane Milton–now a Category 5 storm with a four-mile-wide eye–helps Mother Nature reclaim Florida as swampland, American Airlines announced it’s added enough flights to carry 2,000 more frantic passengers out of the region, ABC News reports. There’s no word if the ghost of Barbara Bush thinks the evacuees have it much better in their evacuation locations than they had it at home in Florida.
Demonstrating that Republican racism has deep roots, the former First Lady and then First Mother of the Shrub, Barb is best remembered for looking at the predominantly Black evacuees from Hurricane Katrina in 2006 who filled a Houston sports arena saying, “What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway,” Barb said, “so this is working very well for them.”