Poverty. The answer is always poverty. Evacuation is not free and never has been.
Currently sitting in the Tampa Bay area while a category 5+ hurricane comes barreling at me. I’m in flood zone D next to E so I shouldn’t have any issues there. In a building that is solid brick/cinderblock construction, built like a bunker. Don’t worry about me. I got water, food, and enough fat to get me through the winter as they say.
The one thing I don’t have is the hundreds or thousands of dollars it would take to drive 2+ states away and get a hotel for a week. I simply don’t have it. Then you have all these people in places like Missouri or Montana posting this question about why people would not evacuate. We don’t have the goddamn money. It’s not hubris. We SHOULD evacuate. I don’t see any of the people saying this offering up a spot on their couch. We should always evacuate… somewhere other than the house of the person who thinks we should, apparently.
I admit that where I am living now that if there were a sudden imminent disaster on its way, I really can’t afford to move or even to evacuate, even for a few days.
I think it’s a lowkey libbrain thing to automatically assume anyone that doesn’t evacuate is just voluntarily being stubborn and smug.
Come on, you can’t just hop in your private jet and fly to your winter vacation home in the Alps?
you claim to like turkish culture but you’ve never engaged in ancient turkish wrestling
Word. And there isn’t really anywhere to go. I have so much water treatment gear. Nothing fancy, just passive filters, but i could probably manage a few hundred gallons before the camp filter gave up. All bc, Idk if my neighbors have any. It’s just camping filters, but it’s big camping filters and hopefully if things ever get really bad it can get some folks through. : (