Having watched that movie as a kiddo as part of the civil defense ‘education’ about hurricanes, it makes me physically ill to think of little old people ‘riding it out’ when they’ve never really ‘ridden one out’ like this before. It’s been a while since (over a hundred years) this part of the FL Atlantic coast has seen a storm like this.
And it’s not the wind that’s the killer although the wind will do the trick. It’s the surge on those barrier islands.
Last I looked at the SLOSH maps, Palm Beach will be getting over 10ft of storm surge. That’s OVER Palm Beach, not total surge. Hope the people staying on those little islands have somewhere to evacuate vertically when it comes.
I offer my sincere thanks to the local police for going door-to-door yesterday and scaring reality into these people. They are now safely relocated for the duration.
Their reasons for wanting to stay seem to range from not wanting their routines disturbed to a false sense of long lost youth, senility, and everything in between. "I don't feel up to traveling" was also mentioned.