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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“The ultimate child abuse?”
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No,it’s a parent making choices about HER children-——the way it used to be.
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Why? I have stayed put during a category 4 hurricane and survived just fine. A little prep-work, some extra supplies, basic survival skills and helpful neighbors can make the experience ... tolerable.
If your house is of modern construction, don’t live in a floodplain, don’t live in the storm surge area, your house is not threatened by falling trees, you have enough food and water for 30 days and have a working generator with fuel supplies, you are most likely going to be just fine. Board up the windows, store some water, make sure the chain saw works, sandbag the entrances where water might get in.... basic stuff.
Conversely, if any of those exceptions DO apply to you, best to bug out. But make sure that you take identification, extra money, extra clothes and important papers. Still board up and lock the house. Put the valuables away, etc. Evacuation can be EXTREMELY stressful. Bugging out if you don’t have a place of safety to go to or don’t know what to bring with you, can often be a bad idea.
Media hype aside, we (Americans) have survived hurricanes for many many years.
should have blurred out the children’s faces. (potential future victims)
I live in East Tennessee where gusts to 60 or 70 are the greatest experienced. The result is mostly doen trees and power lines and the large canopies at gas stations that are not designed for those windloads.
I was before retirement a liscensed contractor in Palm Beach County and was involved in design and construction to the strenuous codes there.
I know people who survived the Andrew too - got in their bathtub with their young children with a mattress on top - and said from that point on they would evacuate when told to...
We didn’t evacuate for a category 1, which stalled off our shore.
I still remember the shrieking winds and power lines snapping
My husband spent the evening bailing water from our living room....
Tornadoes were all around us, taking the roof off our local supermarket
...me?....I was in the hallway with mattresses trying to protect our two children, one a baby
We thought....Category One.....meh
Yeah, right
God help those poor children, their mother is a lunatic.
NO!...THIS IS CHILD ABUSE!
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha **GAG**
Sorry.
I didn't see the gallows humor coming...
I would agree that hysteria level is high and argue that there isn’t enough information to judge whether this person is stupid or not, just based on a general area in which she lives and a somewhat-stupid statement.
It’s not like evacuating is totally free of hazard, sharing the packed roads with some freaked-out people and staying in an unknown location with an unknown slice of society as your close evacuee neighbors. Not to mention the return trip, and dealing with those hassles and that avalanche of people.
I just hope everyone stays safe and the death and destruction talk is waaaaay overblown. It always seems to be just that.
Where do you suggest she go to escape the child abuse charges? Durham?
Which hurricane was that?
This lady is dangerously stupid but the kids need to be removed .
It may be child endangerment——but it’s not abuse.
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If you are close to the coast with a hurricane that strong, it's likely the water or flying debris will get you. We lost a friend when Rita came up through the Beaumont/Port Arthur area. He and his family were safe up in NE Texas when he decided to go back down and ride out the storm for fear of looters. When he didn't come back in a couple of days, we feared the worst. They had a brick home just SW of Orange, and there wasn't much left of it. They found his body stuffed in a culvert two blocks from the house. They never found his truck. Rita was a Cat 3 when it hit.
Keep in mind that Katrina was a category 3 at landfall.
I lived outside of New Orleans at the time, an area far from the Gulf but (like all of SE Louisiana) low. We evacuated 2 days before Katrina hit. We took important papers, pictures, our computers, and our son’s favorite toys with us, knowing (correctly) that none of it would be left. The surge at my house was 12+ feet deep, reaching almost to the top of my roof. Houses on my block were collapsed to the ground, and at least one was completely gone without a trace.
ANY hurricane is not to be underestimated when you’re near the coast or in low terrain. Barring a major unexpected change, Florence is going to be catastrophic. The woman in this article is likely condemning herself and her children to death.
FR is evolving into a government/media hype complex from hell.
IF a person was driving on a road where 82 people were going to die in a 25 mile area over a period of ONE DAY then I would suggest they put their social security numbers on their arms too...
This is not Katrina and the NC coast is NOT below sea level.
Keep your apples.
Where is the father? What’s his opinion?
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