Agreed-but not everyone can afford to lose their jobs and face the consequences.
As for Katrina-many factors again. We left but not because we didn’t believe the warnings, the local officials and weather people PLAYED DOWN Katrina! Friends in Mobile were hearing totally different news- they alerted and saved us!
As late as the day before it hit, local weather people were calling for a ‘blustery day’ and tropical storm force winds in the city! Politics-interrupting business, tourism, etc-trumped weather; and the forecasters were INCOMPETENT.
The same seems true about Atlanta- the people EXPECT the forecasts to be wrong, because they usually are! What the NWS was predicting- and what local Atlantans heard-seems to have been different. If it can happen with a monster hurricane, I know it can with a cold front!
I won’t argue the general stupidity, and disconnect, of the general populace( re. news/weather) on a good day.
Local weather forecasters....particularly Ken Cooke and his team at Fox news Atlanta did a great job. They were on top of it all and letting every one know what was coming. It is one of the reasons that my daughter and her husband stayed home.
When someone tells me they cannot afford to lose their job so they have to do —— (fill in the blank) I don’t argue with them. I do however think to myself if you die doing it you won’t need a job at all.