“These disasters and most others provide more than ample time for orderly evacuation”.......
Back when a hurricane hit New Orleans a few years back, a BLACK friend and I were discussing the amount of advance notice people were given prior to the pending hurricane. He looked at me and said, “How far can you walk in three or four days”? His point being, there was ample time for many “victims” to leave PRIOR to the hurricane ever hitting. Instead of leaving, we saw some fat (black) woman wadding through water complaining she was waiting for the government to come and help her.
I remember the first few days after Katrina hit; it seemed the wards of the state started emerging from their apartments as days passed and they realized nobody was coming to feed them (I guess whatever food they had was all eaten by that time).
Great lessons for preppers in these cases; Hurricane Sandy up here was similar.
I’ll never forget the white woman on the bridge in NO after Katrina refusing a water bottle from the news crew because it wasn’t chilled.
We’re on a river, have a water well and outside the city. Sadly, this neck of the woods has recently been “found” by city folk but it’d still be safer to hunker down at home than go anywhere.