I would presume you also then include those who didn't have the means to leave? People too poor to afford the gas it would take to evacuate, for example? (I mean, haven't we heard plenty of griping about the prices at the pump here on FR?) So, if they're too poor to leave...too bad for them? Or is there just absolutely NO excuses in your narrow little view? Too stupid to live?
The people that should have known better and had the means to go didn't deserve to die, either, though they should have seen that as a possible outcome of their decision to stay. Doesn't mean I don't feel sorry for them or their families. After all, how many times have hurricanes fallen short of the dire predictions that get repeated all over the televsion, ad nauseum? Even this one didn't turn out as badly as it could have, though it was certainly bad enough.
Not to mention the children that weren't evacuated by their parents.
I cannot believe FEMA or whatever agency would take care of this issue, didn't go ahead and use some of the emergency funds to evacuate with busses, trains, etc.
What is the price of saving human lives?
Wouldn't it be less expensive to get folks out before the storm, all in one piece rather than come back and rescue injured or pick up dead bodies?
I've been through an evac before and there are LOTS of folks who can't leave.
The 'home health' patients without family, the eldery who can drive OK around town, but never get on the interstate, the chronic shut-ins. The mentally ill or disabled who can barely function outside of their daily routines.
Look, no one hated evacuating more than I. I won't do it again. But, with that being said, there are lots of people in the world who live in the 'just barely here' world where evacuation is almost beyond them.