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"Why wouldn't you evacuate!?" A post from someone in the path of a catastrophic hurricane... (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Poverty. The answer is always poverty. Evacuation is not free and never has been.

Currently sitting in the Tampa Bay area while a category 5+ hurricane comes barreling at me. I'm in flood zone D next to E so I shouldn't have any issues there. In a building that is solid brick/cinderblock construction, built like a bunker. Don't worry about me. I got water, food, and enough fat to get me through the winter as they say.

The one thing I don't have is the hundreds or thousands of dollars it would take to drive 2+ states away and get a hotel for a week. I simply don't have it. Then you have all these people in places like Missouri or Montana posting this question about why people would not evacuate. We don't have the goddamn money. It's not hubris. We SHOULD evacuate. I don't see any of the people saying this offering up a spot on their couch. We should always evacuate... somewhere other than the house of the person who thinks we should, apparently.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago (23 children)

Yeah people have this idea that the government actually does jack shit except for being like "hey leave the area or you're gonna die, sucks to be you lol" maybe they think they're working to set up thousands of people in stadiums or whatever, and sometimes that does happen, but overwhelmingly it's just telling people to spend over a months' rent to stay at a hotel with surge pricing.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (19 children)

I literally had an argument with someone who thought that they send in buses and helicopters to take people out of their homes

I was like "Maybe in other countries, but here, you're lucky if the cops don't shoot at you and say you were a looter"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They literally have made busses available to get people to shelters before the storm: https://hexbear.net/post/3632288

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