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I don't know that I could ever leave. Fit, creative, resourceful....and feel like short of getting knocked out I can find a way to cling to life while I fight for my home.
You are delusional if you think you can fight a storm. What are you gonna do, put on your boxing gloves and go stand out and yell at the wind, "Come on, I can take it! You won't take my home you bag of wind!".
I actually don’t think it’s mainly rich people who stay. In fact I think they’re more likely to evacuate because they have many more options of places to go. In Katrina, it was the poor that stayed because they had nowhere to go (shelters are awful) and no way to get anywhere.
Rich people have better access to education, experts and know how to listen to them. They are the first ones to leave. They don't care about material things left behind, that's what their wealth and insurance is for.
I really don't get it, why people don't leave. If you own a working car, leave.
If you don't own a working car, and you have no way to leave, you're stuck, as most of the Katrina victims were.
So we all understand, if you have no way to provide transportation out of a very serious hurricane area, you're going to be on the dole.
Houston learned the hard way during Rita that evacuating can be MORE dangerous. You literally physically cannot put 6.5 million people on the road. 1 million is too many.
More evacuees died during Rita than people who stayed.
Rich people have better access to education, experts and know how to listen to them. They are the first ones to leave. They don't care about material things left behind, that's what their wealth and insurance is for.
Has nothing to do with experts are being educated. You have to remember people that live on the coast have been evacuated multiple multiple multiple times. 99% of the time absolutely nothing happens however they still won’t let you get back home for days. So next time they say evacuate it is very easy to say I’m not doing this again.
The bigger issue however is how long they make you wait into you can get back to your home after in evacuated. I saw a bar owner interview and she said I want to be here to see the damage right afterwards I don’t want to wait three weeks to be able to get back and see what I’m dealing with. After Sandy it was a weeks and weeks and weeks before they would let people go back even to get things.That makes people angry and reluctant to evacuate next time it’s called for.
It’s not about stupidity however no one makes this decision lightly. The people that are staying are weighing it and giving it thought and weighing pros and cons. I would evacuate for this, I evacuated for Sandy. But I will not say it was an instant decision and I gave it a lot of thought before deciding to simply because I’ve been evacuated multiple times before for nothing.
Houston learned the hard way during Rita that evacuating can be MORE dangerous. You literally physically cannot put 6.5 million people on the road. 1 million is too many.
More evacuees died during Rita than people who stayed.
Yes and these areas on the coast in South Carolina only has one road in and out no freeway
Has nothing to do with experts are being educated. You have to remember people that live on the coast have been evacuated multiple multiple multiple times. 99% of the time absolutely nothing happens however they still won’t let you get back home for days. So next time they say evacuate it is very easy to say I’m not doing this again.
The bigger issue however is how long they make you wait into you can get back to your home after in evacuated. I saw a bar owner interview and she said I want to be here to see the damage right afterwards I don’t want to wait three weeks to be able to get back and see what I’m dealing with. After Sandy it was a weeks and weeks and weeks before they would let people go back even to get things.That makes people angry and reluctant to evacuate next time it’s called for.
It’s not about stupidity however no one makes this decision lightly. The people that are staying are weighing it and giving it thought and weighing pros and cons. I would evacuate for this, I evacuated for Sandy. But I will not say it was an instant decision and I gave it a lot of thought before deciding to simply because I’ve been evacuated multiple times before for nothing.
I guess for me the issue becomes life vs. death. that simple. AGAIN, folks I've never been through it so please do not think I'm being snide, I definitely recognized that some things lack of experience makes you sound a lot smarter than you really are.
I do recognize that many times you evacuate and nothing happens but I also say to myself "what if". What if this is the one time they get it right? What is in my house or my business that I would sacrifice my kids or my life for?? Not a ding dang thing.
I saw an interview last night and a couple with two small kids are refusing to leave Myrtle beach and the reporter asked, what happens if halfway through this you need help and the women said "then we'll leave" and you could see the look on the reporters face what he was thinking.
I did hear that SC reversed the direction on the highways to the coastal area, they are all directed out of the area.
Haven't read through all the posts yet but wanted to respond to this...
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Originally Posted by eliza61nyc
First let me say, I live in a relatively "safe" weather area, while we occasionally get a nor'easter, I haven't lived through hurricanes (we did have sandy) wild fires or any other natural disaster. So I totally don't know what's involved with storm preparation.
Anyway I'm looking at the news and people along the coast of NC and SC have been told to evacuate and there are always those who want to "ride it out". Seriously? I can imagine it's a pain to have to pick up and leave and the stress must be high but I can't imagine thinking you'd win a battle with mother nature. Isn't a Category 4 hurricane serious enough to leave?
I saw the same thing in California with the wild fires. You're looking at fire out your kitchen window and you want to stay?
Why?
I think those that stay know the risks; but they also know that once they leave, they may not be able to come back right away. That thought alone prevents someone from leaving. Not only roads might be flooded preventing that person from getting back to their home days later but authorities will block roads and prevent it too. It's a horrible feeling knowing the storm has passed and you just want to see how much damage is at your home. You want to start rebuilding but you cant.
Means of transportation is another reason. It cost money to drive and stay somewhere.
Storm chasing is another although I think that's a small percentage of people. And not every single home will be under 10 feet of water or demolished so those people may think their spot is fine
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