Before you ask why storm victims didn’t evacuate despite warnings of catastrophic flooding, please consider that many folks don’t have cars, have no family or friends to stay with, can’t afford gasoline or hotels, don’t dare risk losing their jobs because they can’t return in time, can’t safely evacuate their elderly loved ones, won’t leave without their pets, or they have legitimate health concerns about staying in shelters. Poor shaming them during a catastrophe is not a good look. #Francine
@cassandra17lina
Hotels are expensive, even if you can afford the gas, and fill up quickly. That requires more gas to travel farther. For a while as a kid we lived along the SC coast. We never evacuated. There are lots of reasons people don't evacuate.
@SydneyHarper @cassandra17lina
It's easy to disparage the people in the middle of a storm surge, but no one knows exactly where these things will hit. Most times you get a hurricane warning, very little happens.