[anton]

These disasters and most others provide more than ample time for orderly evacuation. And, when I say evacuation, I mean a leisurely drive out of town to visit a nearby city for a few days, not hectic clogged highways and disaster shelters.

People who choose to “hedge their bets” on evacuation, waiting until the last minute when some politico sounds the alarm, deserve the results.

[DaveA37]

“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.

[grania]

FWIW, I have friends who are Seniors in FL for whom there were no good choices. The path of the hurricane was uncertain, meaning some would've evacuated into the storm. The roads out of FL were jammed and gas was in short supply, meaning the potential of disaster for Seniors with medical conditions and elderly high-maintenance dogs. Those who went to shelters found conditions difficult to being unbearable with all of the confusion and lack of their normal routine.

I get it that for many, especially who live in good over-55 communities, the best of all bad options was to stay in place and depend on the community rec center to be up and running with generators and the services they needed.

For some, it was a situation with no real terrific options.