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Woman on NC coast tells MSNBC she’s not evacuating her kids because there’s ‘strength in numbers’
Twitter ^ | 09/12/18 | David Edwards

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: darwin; florence; hurricaneflorence
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To: Simon Green

There’s a point when first responders should go on tv and radio and tell everyone if you choose not to heed our warnings we will not be helping you until the emergency has subsided. Stupid should hurt.


41 posted on 09/12/2018 8:35:00 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: bert

I think there are maps showing Category 2. And maybe it goes south and misses them entirely. Media is too hyped on disasters, scaring people.


42 posted on 09/12/2018 8:35:09 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: gr8eman

On Fox and friends, the hyper weather blonde was always speaking of a Cat 5 and then her graphics clearly showed the force predicted to reduce from 4 to 3 before landing.

I expect an ignorant producer forced her to say increase to cat 5 when the predictions showed otherwise


43 posted on 09/12/2018 8:35:11 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Simon Green

The scary thing is that this STUPID woman has already reproduced several times. Does she think she’s gonna be able to save those kids when a huge wave rips them from her arms back into the raging sea? Unless she has a secret rocket ship that will blast them to safety, she’s CRAZY!


44 posted on 09/12/2018 8:35:13 AM PDT by EinNYC
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Just stay home, what's the worry unless you live in a hut
45 posted on 09/12/2018 8:35:20 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: Reno89519

Exactly.


46 posted on 09/12/2018 8:35:22 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Simon Green

Lived in Florida for almost 30 years, been though several hurricanes including Andrew.

You always can tell the ones from out of state...

“how bad can it be, I’ve been though big storms up north”

I just say “right”


47 posted on 09/12/2018 8:36:14 AM PDT by Popman ("GOD´S NOT LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH US, BUT OWNERSHIP OF US")
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To: Simon Green

Honestly, if the media would stop sensationalizing people who stay behind, less people would stay behind.

This works out great for the media though. Family stays behind, news story, and after the storm, media gets to film the rescue or body recovery, another news story.

These people should just realize that they are just being used at this point.


48 posted on 09/12/2018 8:36:15 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: bert

“A well designed and constructed home should fair well if not right on the ocean”

I must ask, what is the highest wind speed you and/or your home have ever experienced?


49 posted on 09/12/2018 8:36:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: NorthMountain

15 foot storm surge with 20 feet waves and those homes will be gone with them in it. She’s an idiot. She has no idea how bad it can get. All her neighbors as well. They will be found in the rubble...................


50 posted on 09/12/2018 8:36:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: Simon Green

jess be sure to tape your wind-ders


51 posted on 09/12/2018 8:36:45 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Simon Green

Katie needs to buy a sharpie and write her social security number on her arm - and the arm’s of her children. It’ll make it easier to identify the bodies.


52 posted on 09/12/2018 8:36:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Deep State power peaked during the McCain funeral - it's down from here on out.)
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To: EinNYC

So obviously you know they live in a tent on the beach.......


53 posted on 09/12/2018 8:36:54 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Simon Green

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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Most likely Florence is now going to hit South Carolina as a regular hurricane, not a major, so this lady may be OK.

These days more people get hurt preparing for hurricanes than the hurricanes themselves.


54 posted on 09/12/2018 8:36:57 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: bert

Storm surge will demolish anything in it’s path..........................


55 posted on 09/12/2018 8:37:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: Simon Green

“It was not immediately clear from Katie’s remarks how ‘strength in numbers’ would protect her family from a Category Four hurricane.”

Just about ruined a keyboard reading that one! Talk about a perfect “these people are idiots” commentary without saying so! The only thing better would be if the reporter had ended the sentence with an ellipsis...


56 posted on 09/12/2018 8:37:39 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: DarthVader

Well, at least where she is is (normally) above sea level, unlike much of NOLA, so Spock might only say she’s being illogical rather than highly illogical (which is Vulcan for calling someone a “dumbass”).


57 posted on 09/12/2018 8:37:41 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Simon Green
People who refuse to evacuate should pay the FULL COST of their eventual search and rescue.
If any of her kids die: Charge her with First Degree Murder.

58 posted on 09/12/2018 8:37:43 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Simon Green

Yeah, more strength in numbers as you’re all blown away to parts unknown.


59 posted on 09/12/2018 8:37:46 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Popman

‘She a strong independent woman who don’t need no man.’


60 posted on 09/12/2018 8:38:06 AM PDT by conservative98
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