[nomad]

She should have evacuated earlier but, if she stayed that long into it, then the only choice was to hunker down and ride it out, get up high and dry and wait it out.

[wideawake]

Given what happened to Great Kills, I understand the impulse to panic and try to drive away.

What confuses me is that she drove south toward the ocean to take a backroad path with lots of stoplights to the Verrazano Bridge, instead of driving north into higher ground onto the SI Expressway. Same distance.

Either way, the Verrazano was closed and had been closed for hours.

The most charitable explanation was that she acted from sheer, crazed panic.