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. #Debby
@cassandra17lina with a special shout out to those horrid people who price gouge evacuees for emergency lodging & needs.
@peeppeepcircus Thankfully there was some emergency legislation that said folks evacuating with pets could not be charged extra at hotels that normally accepted pets. Otherwise that would be another price gouging bonanza.
@cassandra17lina nice. not sure my state has caught up to that yet with wildfire evacs.