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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in a hurricane-prone area.  I live on a small island. I have never evacuated before despite whatever orders exist, and don't plan to unless a category 5 is coming directly at me.

As a PP explained before, living with this type of risk is just part of the cost of living in a place like this. With Hurricane Ian last year, the direction of the rainfall made nearly every house on my street suffer minor water damage. The key was it was minor because we were all home to deal with it quickly.

Living with hurricanes at this time of year is just what we do. 90% of the time our choices work out fine. [/quote]

So if 1/10 times you end up dead in storm surge, that’s okay with you? Just to sit in your living room rather than spend a couple of days a short distance away in hotel or shelter or with friends/family?

What other things in life do you routinely do with those odds against you?

I will never understand why people with means don’t leave.

I totally understand why impoverished people with no means to leave don’t leave, and often die.

For them I have sympathy, for the libertarians and anti science crowd, not so much.[/quote]

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