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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ANYONE who stays in a building looking at the OCEAN during a hurricane is a moron! All that water is coming right at you! Hotels were destroyed in Camille . Flo is no Camille but wind driven storm surge from the Atlantic leaves you counting on sheer luck!She may get lucky with this one, but I think intentionally putting your kids in danger should not be allowed. Cops should take the kids to a shelter. She can stay if she likes-if she lives she can get them later.
ANYONE who stays in a building looking at the OCEAN during a hurricane is a moron! All that water is coming right at you! Hotels were destroyed in Camille . Flo is no Camille but wind driven storm surge from the Atlantic leaves you counting on sheer luck!She may get lucky with this one, but I think intentionally putting your kids in danger should not be allowed. Cops should take the kids to a shelter. She can stay if she likes-if she lives she can get them later.
I used to live in Lakeview on Porteous. i moved after my home flooded during the mid-90s 500-year flood. Kids were going down the street in canoes. For Katrina I lived in Slidell, we were the direct hit. Lost my home there.
Looks like the Outer Banks will be spared. The southern beaches not so much.
Florence. The short form of that is Flo. Flo is the spokesperson for Progressive Insurance. Therefore, progressives are complicit in the hurricane.
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