WHY???????
Is it defiance? Is this the price for defiance?
Some refused, but I also heard a story tell of a teacher that spoke of students too poor for their families to get out. Don't know if it's a matter of opinion, or if they really were poor?
Maybe they didn't have cars. I have a friend in New Orleans now because her flight was canceled.
People along the Gulf Coast are a little jaded to hurricane evacuations. 9 times out of 10, you can simply ride out the storm. So, that played a part in it.
There are also plenty of people who simply cannot get out. The elderly, the sick, people who are too poor to own a car etc. Then you have the random people like tourists from other countries who are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A lot of factors in why some people stayed.