re: Why don't people evacuate?

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Here in Florida we constantly get evacuation notices for hurricanes and most of the time hurricanes do no damage either fizzling out or turning up north.

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Except when they don't. Like Charlie, Andrew, like Katrina in her crossing of the peninsula, like Irma in her dissecting FL northward march. Are hurricane proof houses also tidal surge proof if they are near the coast? Do they float on standing water? I know, some on stilts, but still...

Plus I-75 and I-95 going north out of the state - did you try getting out of FL last year when Irma was coming?

You’re assuming their employers are working with them to allow them to leave earlier.

Archer explains Myrtle Beach.

Ron White:

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It's not THAT the wind is b'LOWIN,

It's WHAT the wind is b'LOWIN.

You've got a stop sign in your sPLeen.

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I was reading a post on another site where someone was trying to get their 86 year old father to evacuate. The subtext was that if he lost everything, life wouldn't be worth living anyway and at his age he was too old to start over. I can respect that decision.

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I can't. That guy has a living son ffs.

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Except when they don't. Like Charlie, Andrew, like Katrina

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I'm not saying they never hit but when for every hurricane that does hit you get a dozen that don't, people end up playing the percentages and staying put not to deal with the hassle and expense of evacuating.

I wait until the last day and check the cone before deciding to evacuate, I sure as hell am not going to evacuate a week before the storm comes like the OP is suggesting. You never really know what they're gonna do.

I've evacuated up 75 a few times before and it is a nightmare. I've got a jerry can in the trunk for extra range but it really is a nightmare. The OP must have never had to evacuate. It's easy to say bail out a week early, it's a lot more difficult and frustrating IRL.

As far as hurricane proof, I know they're not but all local building codes mandated roof and foundation tie downs, so the newer homes are better prepared to come out in one piece structurally.

If a Cat 4 or 5 was predicted to come directly at Orlando, I'd be out a day or two before for sure. Even if the house is good being without AC in FL for a few weeks is worse than enduring the I-75 traffic and shacking up at a La Quinta in Marietta watching The Real.

If I was in Myrtle Beach, I sure as hell wouldn't be having a clambake with Shelley Fabares.

Because in the era of global warming, the media calls EVERY storm the worst evah. Then suddenly, its not

Its the "boy who cried wolf syndrome". Eventually people just ignore the alarmists

One big reason is pets. Most shelters and hotels won’t take dogs or cats, so people end up staying behind rather than abandoning the family pet.

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As far as hurricane proof, I know they're not but all local building codes mandated roof and foundation tie downs, so the newer homes are better prepared to come out in one piece structurally.

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Intended to mitigate damage, not to shelter people from a CAT 4 storm.