And even IF they survive the storm with a fairly intact house with no flooding there will be NO POWER OR MUNI WATER/SEWAGE for weeks, maybe months. The house we live in right now was w/o power for 4 WEEKS after katrina and muni water for 4 weeks as well. And we’re over 100 miles from the coast. It was a hot, humid, buggy hell w/o even clean sheets after a while. And beanie weenie out of a can gets old. Fast.
The ‘stayers’ are thinking about making it through the storm. It’s the aftermath that sucks bigtime. This neighborhood threw a party when the power came on.
Further south, when the power went out the a/c’s shut off. By the time they got power restored, the heaters clicked on (it was after Halloween and Katrina hit end of August).
https://twitter.com/ryanelijah/status/783967781394022400
Holy cow if true: “This is stunning to me, Brevard Sheriff’s Office tells us 50% of residents are *ignoring* the mandatory evacuation order. #fox35”