People......

[AngliaGT]

Just heard on the news that there's 150 needing rescuing
in Newberg,NC.
Just WHY don't these people evacuate,when they have been
given ample warnings?Now the rescue squads have to risk their lives to
go save them.

 

[DrEntropy]

You mean New Bern? Much too close to the harbor. Combine tide with storm surge and *glub!*

"Common sense" would dictate one should go inland and get to higher ground! Sheesh.

 

[NutmegCT]

At times, it seems that "rescue efforts" - particularly for folks who disobey orders - can be attempts to go against Darwin's theories on Natural Selection.

The rescue teams risk their lives, and the taxpayers have to foot the bill.

- Alpine skiers who enjoy their fun in "Do Not Enter - Avalanche Warning" areas.

- Surfers who continue their fun despite "Beach Closed - Hurricane Warning" signs.

- Swimmers who dive off cliffs despite "No Diving - Dangerous Submerged Rocks" warning.

- Residents who could have left a fire/storm/flood zone, but choose to "hunker down" instead.

Just sayin'

 

[JPSmit]

 

[YakkoWarner]

An alternative viewpoint from a friend who lived in Florida for years:

If you evacuate, you have no idea when they will let you back in to your house. It could be days - it could be weeks. A house that got wet/flooded has a reasonable chance of being saved if you can get in quickly to remove the wet flooring/drywall/etc before serious mold and rot set in. Once it moves into the structure, the chances of saving the house go down. Or if the house didn't flood, get a tarp over damaged roofing and/or windows to prevent water damage inside. When New Orleans got hit, a lot of people were forbidden to return to their home in that critical time period when saving it may have been possible. And the longer an area sits officially evacuated, the greater the chance for looting or some other issue (something as simple as a broken gas pipe that could be turned off if someone is there to do it could result in a total loss if no one is there to do it).

If you can imagine sitting in a hotel 200 miles away and seeing your damaged but savable home on TV, and then being told you cannot go take care of it for weeks while it slowly becomes a total loss, or finally being allowed back into your neighborhood to discover your home safe from the storm but cleaned out by looters, then riding it out in place MAY start to make sense to some people.

 

[DrEntropy]

An alternative viewpoint from a friend who lived in Florida for years:

If you evacuate, you have no idea when they will let you back in to your house. It could be days - it could be weeks. A house that got wet/flooded has a reasonable chance of being saved if you can get in quickly to remove the wet flooring/drywall/etc before serious mold and rot set in. Once it moves into the structure, the chances of saving the house go down. Or if the house didn't flood, get a tarp over damaged roofing and/or windows to prevent water damage inside. When New Orleans got hit, a lot of people were forbidden to return to their home in that critical time period when saving it may have been possible. And the longer an area sits officially evacuated, the greater the chance for looting or some other issue (something as simple as a broken gas pipe that could be turned off if someone is there to do it could result in a total loss if no one is there to do it).

If you can imagine sitting in a hotel 200 miles away and seeing your damaged but savable home on TV, and then being told you cannot go take care of it for weeks while it slowly becomes a total loss, or finally being allowed back into your neighborhood to discover your home safe from the storm but cleaned out by looters, then riding it out in place MAY start to make sense to some people.

Thank you Yakko!

Mitsy doesn't understand the "hunker down" thing. We had a durn' near divorce-size argument last year about my insistence on staying in the house, I buckled. Happily, no damage on return, some downed limbs around.

 

[Basil]

I recall, years ago, a made-for-TV movie starring Frank Sutton (Sgt Carter on Gomer Pile U.S.M.C) in which he and a group of friends decided to have a hurricane party in place rather than heed the evacuation orders. As I recall it didn't end well for the party goers.

 

[PC]

When it come to taking chances the world isn't a digital, black and white, absolute this or that proposition. The world is analog. There are shades of grey.

I have a friend who is a hard core body surfer. One day when there was a high surf alert he headed over to his usual beach.

When he got there he found a lifeguard sitting under the sign that read DANGER, beach closed, stay out of water...., and all his buddies out in the water having a raging good time.

He looks at the sign, looks at his buddies and looks at the lifeguard. The lifeguard says, "oh, that's for tourists. You guys know what you're doing."