Despite the well documented history of prior destructive killer hurricanes, the accuracy of weather prediction and tracking and efforts to build levees and raise buildings,people often believe that somehow, someway these catastophres will not affect them personally. Its the same psychological defense that allows a young soldier to function in deadly combat. This type of thinking is probably hard wired into most humans to allow them to function in extremely dangerous situations and ultimately survive. Don’t be too judgmental when people ignore warnings and behave in this manner.
That's worth repeating. One of the people included in the tweets shown in twitchy evacuated from the coast to a hotel in LaPlace, and now the hotel is flooding.
There is a lot of damage from this storm, and the situation is very serious for people trying to avoid serious flooding in the dark with a hurricane in progress. Prayers up for them all, and the rescue teams that are no doubt trying to save them right now.
I was raised to believe that heeding warning is a sighn of wisdom and to do otherwise is just plain stupid. It’s not like being ignorant where you just don’t know. They were warned.