Posted on 09/12/2018 8:22:30 AM PDT by Simon Green
MSNBC spoke to a North Carolina resident on Wednesday who said that she was not obeying a mandatory hurricane evacuation because there is “strength in numbers.”
Just hours before Hurricane Florence is set to strike the Carolinas, MSNBC’s Kerry Sanders spoke to a woman named Katie who lives in Carolina Beach, North Carolina with her three children.
Katie explained that she was refusing to evacuate and instead was planning to “just try to stay safe during the hurricane.”
“I think we are going to do everything normally,” she said.
“Why the decision to stay and not fall back further inland?” Sanders asked.
“From my experience, getting back into town after the storms is very difficult,” the Carolina Beach resident insisted. “Knowing that our family and friends and our home are all here, we didn’t want to leave them unprotected for a prolonged amount of time. We are going to try to stay put.”
“We have several neighbors saying put,” she added. “We feel there is strength in numbers. We checked in with one another. We are going band together and make it through.”
It was not immediately clear from Katie’s remarks how “strength in numbers” would protect her family from a Category Four hurricane.
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Against a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane! The stupid is strong with this one.
Police, fire and rescue should refuse to rescue her or anyone who foolishly decides to not evacuate.
yeah, by golly if enough people stay- the hurricane will be too afraid to hit- you go girl- psssst- child endangerment-
IF she wants to stay, fine. But keeping those little girls in the path of that hurricane is irresponsible.
Strength in platitudes? What the heck. Protect your family and get out of there.
Makes so much sense. Strength in numbers is what saved that family on the duck boat.
Absolutely correct.
The kids should be evacuated.
Mom wants to roll the dice, her choice.
GRRL Power!!!
She needs to get a maker and write their ss numbers on their bodies.
You can’t fix stupidity, but hopefully her children won’t pay with their lives for her foolishness...
Indeed. I live in the Houston area, and I don't evacuate. It is nearly impossible to evacuate millions of people from this area. However, the people down here who live in the coastal areas should always evacuate, even if it is just into Houston with friends or relatives. The news will probably be filled with the search and rescue story of this family who isn't leaving.
Thirteen years since Katrina and you still can’t fix stupid.
I bet this thing fizzles out and heads north as a storm.
She’ll be screaming for help once it hits. “Save me first! I’ve got kids!”
Somehow, I suspect Lemmings have a similar or the same motto.
I wonder where dad(s) are ?
What the? Has she not seen videos of other hurricanes, much weaker ones? Wishful thinking on her part.
Wonder if she’s related to the woman I saw on the weather channel last night that said she wasn’t leaving and I quote ‘because If it’s your time, it’s your time”.........unbelievable
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