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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As I said earlier, from experience with flood insurance, evacuations, and disaster mitigation efforts, people are stupid about flood risk. If a place hasn’t flooded in recent memory, they think it isn’t high risk, even when the water is literally right outside their door.

Elderly people especially have to be forced to evacuate by local authorities and family members. They never want to evacuate because it is inconvenient and uncomfortable but they are likely to die horrible deaths if there is a direct hit from a major hurricane. There are also deaths after a hurricane of impaired people who survive the storm but not the power outage. It happed a few years ago in a nursing home in Florida. Already one old couple died in Florida because they had no power for their oxygen.

If I were in charge, I would send deputies to places like Sanibel and Captiva to go door to door and anyone who insisted on staying would be asked for their next of kin and handed a Sharpie to write their name and Social Security number on their leg so we could ID their body. [/quote]

What if instead of doing that you went door to door and offered a ride to a safe shelter. Many of these people don't leave because it's very hard for them to do it.[/quote]

Of course they would be offered rides to a shelter. That is never the problem. They don’t want to go to a shelter. [/quote]

What do you mean that is NEVER the problem - what sort of bubble do you live in that you think that's not the problem?![/quote]

Never is too strong. Often is true. They don't want to leave their homes.[/quote]

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