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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They would definitely be safer on high ground 100m inland.
Those barrier islands may disappear altogether in this storm. It’s set to sit and spin for several DAYS at cat 2/3.
Nothing in Katrina, Camille or Andrew can compare to that.
Along with the 50” of rain being printed by the models (just like with Harvey).
Absolutely this woman can stay. Darwin will sort that out.
I do NOT want to see her smug face on TV next week demanding to know when Trump will fix the flush potties and clean up the raw sewage leaking from the eroded pipes along the streets. And how dangerous all the broken glass and debris is for ‘mukids’. She’ll be shrieking about ‘Puerto Rico’ and all that business.
She’s a green one I can tell. No mention of preps or safe construction. Just ‘strength in numbers’ BS.
This is a fun map:
http://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=d9ed7904dbec441a9c4dd7b277935fad&entry=1
If she’s really staying in Carolina Beach NC she’s stupid.
That sloshmap says 3-6’ of inundation. That’s based on a moderately moving storm. Not surge over 2 days with 2-3 high tides in between + the 50” of rain being printed for that area.
And when she’s faced with no ac, no water, no food and probably no roof either for however long it takes the national guard to get there and get her ass out she’ll be blaming everyone but herself the entire time.
The Child Protective Services should take the kids.
Continue your
snarky comments to others now.
Sorry, maybe some Florence butt salve may help.
Nice!
“Police, fire and rescue should refuse to rescue her or anyone who foolishly decides to not evacuate.”
No problem there. If it lands as even a Cat 3 there won’t be a home, nor roads to reach her.
USCG helos will be it. They are the only ones crazy enough to launch in that sort of weather.
At least you should be feeling good before the pier collapses.
Protecting her possessions against looting is more important to her than her kids.
The stupid is strong in this one.
You assume quite a bit there. How do you know her situation?
I could speculate all day......
Just a bunch of busy bodies on this thread who don’t know a damn thing.
Based on the sloshmaps unless she’s in a concrete bunker about 12’ above sealevel it’s going to be dicey there.
Look for ‘Ike rollover pass’ pictures for this lady’s future.
You are exactly right. Katrina’s center passed over Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes in Louisiana on a northward track, officially making landfall in Waveland, MS just east of the state line. Technically speaking, the storm did not hit New Orleans, but brushed it with the western (weaker) edge of the eyewall. Even this was enough to cause the infamous catastrophe which resulted. I’ve been through hurricanes in the NOLA area going back to Betsy in 1965. On my own “damage to New Orleans” scale of 1-10, I put Katrina at about a 6. A more powerful storm, moving NW on a path just west of the city, would flood New Orleans completely, along with much of the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain. That’s why I moved about 100 miles inland. (And have still lost power from hurricanes since then!)
Katrina’s surge along the MS coast, on the strong side of the storm, was officially 27+ feet. The woman in this article lives in Carolina Beach, which lies on a barrier island just north of the projected path of the storm center. Ground elevations there range from 3-13’, with the average given as 7’. If the projected path holds, this area will likely experience worst-case surge conditions, as winds in the storm’s NE quadrant drive the water ahead of them with maximum force. Staying there is utterly foolish.
What she was talking about is that a number of the people in her area are choosing to stay. Which means that they probably are not living in wooden shacks but well built homes that are above the storm surge.
They are probably more worried about looters then the storm.
Depending on where they are they may be right.
IF she wants to stay, fine. But keeping those little girls in the path of that hurricane is irresponsible.
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You get the parents you get.
http://somethingsublime.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341cd2ac53ef010534b30d2e970c-pi
before/after
Ike was only a 2/3 either.
Hurricanes harvesting out democrats.
Her Husband may be a first responder, ever think of that?
They are not evacuating the marine bases, I wonder why?
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092017_Harvey.pdf
So almost all the deaths were from freshwater floods, over 150 miles away from the scary winds and storm surge.
Because the marines are young men and women who have the benefit of billions of dollars to secure their safety. It’s expensive to lose trained military.
They aren’t 5yr old girls.
If her husband is a first responder and keeping his wife/kids there he doesn’t deserve them.
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