re: Why don't people evacuate?

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drove through Refugio just last week....it's not exactly New York City when it comes to entertainment options unless you think picking cotton is like a Broadway show.

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Point si, it was 14 miles inland from landfall...and it had zero utilities for a couple weeks.

Dont eide out the strongest storm ever. Theres nothing to stay for

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Ron White who said, when the storm throws a Volkswagen at you.... how many sit-ups you can do doesn't come into play.

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Jeff Foxworthy said, “it’s not the 100 mile an hour wind, it’s the stop sign coming at you at 100 mph that will kill you.”

That's just the way it is. It doesn't matter what the situation is, what's going on, etc.. When you are dealing with mass groups of people, there will always be people who will not cooperate..

I guess, for some people, their home is their safety and in a stressful situation like a monster storm coming towards you, they just rather be where they feel the safest, despite the fact that in reality.. It's a stupid decision.

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It's a boy that cried wolf type of thinking. Many people have either evacuated/not evacuated when they were told to previously and the storm changes direction or for whatever other reason things aren't that bad. They have a false sense of security that things will be ok again. The more you get away with it and dodge bullets the more that mindset is reinforced.

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This. I have been through a LOT of hurricanes. Direct hits, near missed, etc. I split time between south Florida and the gulf coast in 2004 and 2005 and was in the path of Frances, Charley, and Ivan in 2004 and Katrina and Wilma in 2005. Didnt have power for over a week on the gulf coast after ivan and Katrina, was pretty worried during Charley. Couple of years ago Mathew started out aimed right at south Florida and was huge. Then last year, Irma.

Last year I left for Irma because it was literally the biggest hurricane ever and pointed directly at where I live just on the other side of the coast. Drove all the way to my parents in orange beach 2 days before it was supposed to score a direct hit. It changed course. I drove 20 fricking hours straight in the worst GD traffic I have ever seen in what is normally an 8 hour drive. I had a 12pm flight out that was canceled. So I hit the road from the airport. Irma changed direction. Two days later I called my building and my condo had power, never even lost it. So I turned around and drove all the way back, through the backside of Irma on I-10 as it was going through Jacksonville.

Even though forecasting has gotten really good, a small change in the last few hours can make a big difference. And when you get a massive sumbitch like Irma and millions of people on the move driving vast distances "to be safe", it really can be a huge pain in the arse.

We evacuated to stay with family in orange beach for Matthew too. Most of our neighbors stayed (we live on the island) and said it wasn’t too bad. In the end, it felt pretty wasteful and overkill to drive 8 hrs to OB.

We stayed for Irma and it was fine. Only lost power for a few hours.

If we had listened to some family members before Irma we would have ended up in Tampa with family in a much worse spot than Jax.

So yea, that’s why “just go! Just leave!” isn’t all that simple.

Exactly. And sounds like I was the exact opposite. Sat tight for Mathew, left for Irma.

I have to tell you I was not happy that I left for Irma. That drive to OB was literally 20 hours. From noon when they closed the airport and my flight was cancelled 30 minutes before boarding, through the night until 8am the next morning. I was so damn tired. And there were exactly zero hotels with vacancies coming up out of Florida on the panhandle. It took me about 14 hours to go from Jacksonville to Pensacola. People were creating a third lane of traffic along the side of I10 from white oak to about 40 miles outside of Tallahassee. Which just created the biggest shitshow ever when the highway patrol blocked them and the had to merge back into the 2 lanes.

They wouldn’t let me take my comic book collection

Can’t speak for the Carolina people but in NOLA growing up it becomes Hurricane fatigue. It’s notneasy for a family of 5 to pack up and leave town. Forgetting work responsibilities and paying for travel. Just for the storm to move at hit Florida. Meanwhile NOLA has sunny skies. Do that a few times and then you say frick it. I’m riding it out

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I had a bunker of sorts

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A bunker in a flood is not ideal, to say the least.