re: Why do people wait until the last minute to leave before a massive hurricane?

Think a lot of people are just afraid to ask off too. I am literally the only person to evacuate from the rehab department at my hospital in jupiter. Couple days ago I texted my boss and asked him when he thought the hospital would be making a call when we could leave because when they did I was likely taking my two young kids and 25 weeks pregnant wife the hell out of S FL. He said we have a full staff and half the patients we'd normally have with no elective surgeries coming in, you can leave now if you want.

Everyone else afraid to ask despite wanting to leave and hospital sitting there with thumbs up their asses. Now everyone pretty much stuck. Crazy thing is the patients still there aren't even great PT candidates. Most really sick that we would just be lugging from bed to chair anyway.

St Augustine,

Which hospital are you at? I'm down in the Wellington area.

I think we would all be surprised at the amount of people that do not follow current events. Mandated evacuations get a lot of media attention, and I bet it is the first real information many people in these situations pay attention to.

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Probably a-hole employers, no money, workaholics, etc

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This, I know a friend of a friend was told they needed to be back at work the day after the hurricane or they were fired.

SoFla Tideroller I'm at Jupiter medical center.

Nothing new that Americans in general are procrastinators.