Darwin Award.....................
If I lived in a wood shack on the beach, I'd evacuate. If I lived in an elevated, concrete structure, had food and water stores, I'd stay.
Where is the father? Fathers?
Surely someone in that family has some sense.
Or is this abortion after the fact.
The kids in that pic look a tad worried.
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.
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!
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”
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.
jess be sure to tape your wind-ders
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.
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.
“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...
Yeah, more strength in numbers as you’re all blown away to parts unknown.
She also remarked that there is no way the hurricane can hurt her; she has a shotgun and she’s not afraid to use it!
Hurricanes that hit near me always drop to tropical storms soon before hitting, but from what I’ve seen, the vast amount of damage occurs within 1-2 miles of the shoreline.
You don’t need to evacuate 300 miles. Go see a friend or hang out at your church.
I helped with Hurricane Sandy cleanup a couple weeks after the storm. Mainland damage was negligible while the barrier islands were decimated.
(I'd evacuate my wife and kids. And make sure my life insurance was paid up. If I had beachfront property, I'd ask a friend more inland who is also staying if I could come over with a couple of cases of beer.)
If she makes it through the initial winds, she might very well be safer at Carolina Beach, rather than stuck in the flooding farther inland. Lots more people will be in danger from the flooding.