Perhaps my experiences, and thus my point of view, are simply different. Like the time my 90,000 ton aircraft carrier was whipsawed by a Pacific typhoon and taught me to be prepared. Or pehaps it was the time when my house in Pensacola was washed away by a Cat-4 hurricane that taught me that beachfront property wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Or maybe it was when I found myself under a 767 as it slammed into One World Trade center. Then again, the tornado damage done to my home in Charlotte left me shaking my head, too.
Whatever it was, all of these experiences taught me that you never know just what is going to happen to you, so you'd better be prepared for what you can reasonably foresee.
It most definitely taught me that self-reliance and intitiative are to be cultivated because when you have to depend on your government for help, it very often fails to materialize. If that means I leave three days before a storm hits, then so be it.
That having been said, you can call me a pinhead all you want if it makes you feel better or superior. I know better.
The point is, for whatever reason those people ended up in jeopardy, the storm had passed and cops were not allowing them to follow an offical evacuation route out of the city. That is wrong.