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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Idalia is making landfall as a category 4 Hurricane with sustained winds of 156mph.

I hope that the end is quick and painless for the people in the evacuation zones who chose to stay behind and are met with 16+ feet of storm surge - unsurvivable. A few days at Motel 6, totally survivable. [/quote]

As someone who has experienced 6 hurricanes over a Cat 3 (and probably 15 under that), you aren’t considering that at some point we don’t have the motivation to start over from nothing again. Insurance doesn’t make you whole. Friends don’t always come back from evacuation. Sometimes we’re just willing to risk it and understand that may be the end - but we’re too tired to do it all again. [/quote]

Hey, I *do* get that. I don’t live in a big hurricane zone, but my family lost a lot in Carol ~70 years ago and the memories persisted.

We don’t like to embrace death in this culture, so it’s hard to accept when people do. But I can see why some folks would just want to leave it to fate. I saw many interviews with impoverished and working class people who were devastated by Ian and could not imagine the stress of trying to rebuild a life after something like that with no real means.

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