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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And they will vote for democRats.
Codes always change after a storm.
Those homes weren’t shacks by any stretch of the imagination. The homes destroyed in Homestead FL weren’t shacks either. Most of those were middle class brick ranch homes.
I guarantee you the codes in NC aren’t different than those in TX prior to Ike.
I also guarantee you they will likely equal or exceed the codes in TX after Florence.
None of which will revive anyone who drowns there this weekend.
If the house survives because ‘muh better codes’ but it’s washed completely through with seawater during the surge it matters little to the former (now drowned) occupants.
Those homes weren’t shacks by any stretch of the imagination. The homes destroyed in Homestead FL weren’t shacks either. Most of those were middle class brick ranch homes.
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The homes on the peninsula were old and cheap and older than what was in Homestead. Some of the communities were 100 years old.
And as I’ve said before. I’ve known people who went through the eye of Andrew unharmed. They did have a lot of property damage, though.
Homes and property are going to get destroyed whether people evacuate, or not.
The death toll from hurricanes isn’t worth all the media attention it gets. FReepers should know better.
Typical liberal, will do everything normally, good luck with that honey. Once that power goes down and the roads are blocked you are going to find out how on your own you really are the real world is a harsh and unpleasant task master.
We lived through a snow storm in December 2009 which started on a Friday evening around 5:30pm. After about an hour the heavy wet snow started toppling trees and the power was out. We had candles, water, canned and dry food, flash lights, extra gas and propane gas logs to keep us warm. We live in the boonies and all night long I listened to sound of cracks and pops like gunfire from huge trees breaking and then the thud of them hitting the ground and the close ones shaking the house and hoping I had cut the wood line back far enough to keep them out of the house.
When we got up power and phone lines were down and on my road from my house to the main road were 19 large trees down across the road. My 10 year old son said lets wait for the county to come cut them up. I said you are going to get cold and hungry even with our supplies before that happens. We used an ATV with a snow blade and a chain saw. Me, my wife and oldest son we started cutting that morning and it took all day just to clear a path to the main road and when we got there it was a war zone, with trees down everywhere but places where citizens with saws and chainsaws had cut their way through, not waiting for the government to show up.
Three days later we got our power back. A week later we got the main road totally clear. A month later we got phone service. All through this we kept knocking back the trees on our road. About three or four weeks after storm the county came through and completed the clearing of our road to their satisfaction.
The initial day after the storm because we were prepared we was able to take our kids to my parents house which still had power and they stayed there for three days and we were able to go get a shower and hot food if needed. But my wife and I stayed at the house at night and when those gas logs were turned off you had better be bundled up and under the covers as it got down in the 50’s inside the house. This dingbat is about to get a real education, she is not going to have a place to go to with power and food for a while. I just hope her kids or some first responder does not pay with their lives for her utter stupidity.
Why would I do that?
Does this lady need help?
If I make a conscious decision not to go is the FR police going to attack me?
It is after all MY DECISION.
Secondly, I have no residence there.
Pay attention.
I watched the video, and this family does not live on the island, they live in Wilmington.
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.
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An outright lie. They live in Wilmington.
My thought as well. It’s one thing to risk your own life but to risk the well being and safety of those beautiful children. Sounds as though she 1. doesn’t believe that it will be that bad and 2. is more concerned with her material possessions than her own well being. Exactly how does she think that her presence is going to keep her property from getting destroyed? My guess is she’s afraid of looters taking her stuff. That’s a valid concern but all of that stuff can be replaced... her children can’t be. Not to mention needlessly putting them in a position where they will be frightened.
Has anyone told her Uber Eats and Dominoes don’t deliver in hurricanes?
I’ve spent a few days in a concrete duplex sitting through a pacific typhoon..the Japanese know how to construct homes for tropical storms... the problem is they are really ugly.
oh yes they do, they marry Japanese women.
This woman and her children will be statistics by Sunday.
During Katrina my neighbor across the street refused to evacuate with his wife and 5-year old. Eventually the mother took the kid and left, he wouldn’t budge. After he was found dead on a pile of trash in his home.
Concrete structures are definitely the best to be in if you’re stuck riding out one of these things. They are also the easiest to clean if they get flooded.
Hey, Japanese people are nice-looking!
Already down to a category 2.
I won’t be happy until it is down to a -13.
The weather blonde on Fox n Friends reported there was only 1 mile difference between the current state and a cat 3.
She apparently did not understand the difference between wind velocity and distance.
She was trying very hard to make her erroous point of yesterday that the intensity could increase to cat 5 when her graphic clearly indicated dissapation
Was your neighbor in Lakeview? People forget it wasn’t just the lower 9 that flooded to rooftops. My old home on Conrad off Canal Blvd was flooded into the attic! To think we stayed there for Georges and walked to the lake to watch the waves! If the levee had broken then...
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