Question For Today- Hurricane Evacuation

People stay sometimes because they cannot afford to leave. It's so easy to judge and tell people to stay in a gymnasium full of other people but what if you get major anxiety around a ton of people? What if you have medical reasons that make you want to stay where you are comfortable? The thing is until it's you going through it...it's easy to tell others what they should do.

They are poor and do not have any money to rent a motel to live in for a week or 2, no money for food, some don`t have a car to leave some have pets and won`t leave them to drown.

@LovingMyBabies is 100% right, some cannot afford to leave, it's not a choice, it's the only possibility that they have, to take the risk. There are poor people who do not even have a car, how can they evacuate bringing the bare necessities with them? Look at the house in the photo, does it look like a luxury house? Do you see a car there?

As Jennifer says, it is hard to say why people don't want to evacuate. But it is also pretty hard on the rescuers. They would find it very difficult to deliberately turn their back on someone.

As a victim of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the decision to leave Metairie Louisiana to Pine Louisiana was made based on the fact that my late mom and myself had a place to stay with a relative. What I have seen on the television news is that the people who insisted they would stay despite the warnings of the authorities is everything from being sick to being fearful of their homes being broken into. I have heard the authorities tell the people who stay home during a storm are playing with their lives. They would be rescued when the storm passes.

If they don't evacuate when told, then I don't think that emergency responders should have to endanger their lives to save STUPID PEOPLE.

I really don't know their reason, but it has to be something to make them stay, we don't know why. When Katrina hit, that was the worst thing I had ever seen. We didn't get flooded, but the giant trees uprooted, I never thought that a hurricane could hit in Louisiana and destroy so much in land, it was awful.

Its their job. But there are people that were too afraid to leave their comfort zones. I would be afraid.

Those people in my book are pure idiots @dgobucks226 and nope; First Responders should NOT.

I know if I were caught in that kind of situation, I wouldn't have the means to leave. I would be praying the storm wouldn't catch me. If I were in an area where there was no choice, yes, I would leave.

i always think they stay because of two reasons, 1) where will they go to and how? Can they afford to go and come back? 2) pride and stubborness.

After watching the Hawaii lava evacuations I see that some people don't evacuate because they have pets, can't get out on their own, want to protect their property, or are stubborn and don't want anyone telling them what to do. Only the last category, I think, is not a good reason.

@dgobucks226 I cannot answer for someone else just for myself.. I am not sure what I would do.

I really wonder if it is some form of paranoia why sometimes people stay

Some stay a they want to try to protect their property or do not really know how destructive a hurricane can be. One year here those threatening not to leave when official checked were given a pernament marker and force to write next of kin contact on their body so that family could be notified to ID the body after the storm. They were also told the number refusing to leave had to be known so they could know the number of body bags needed.