Woman on NC coast tells MSNBC she's not evacuating her kids because there's 'strength in numbers'

[TheBlackAdder]

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Someone is going for the Bad Parent of the Year Award!

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.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/woman-nc-coast-tells-msnbc-shes-not-evacuating-kids-theres-strength-numbers/


When shit gets real, she'll call for help, saying that she has young kids with her, knowing that first responders will try to save children. Adults, on the other hand, make the conscious decision to ride it out--kids have no say in the matter.

It's a shame that she didn't give her last name so CPS could take them so safety.

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[Fullduplexxx]

1. Cps should take her kids

[Moostache]

2. Be sure to use water-resistant Sharpie markers to ID your bodies...

Name, Social Security Number, Next of Kin (not drowning with you)...preferably on both arms in case one of them is ripped from your body while drowning.

These people do not need to be saved, we need to save the gene pool from further contamination by their strain of 'teh stoopid'. Was this the same woman who was advising "prayer" as the best thing to do? Probably not, but if people have been told "it is extremely dangerous to your life to remain in the path of this storm surge and hurricane" and they choose to remain anyway, well, I do not consider that a tragedy, I consider it evolutionary pressure being brought to bear.

[muntrv]

3. If she were living in Houston last year, would she and her kids taken the boat out to see Harvey?

[NightWatcher]

4. There is strength in numbers. Category 4. 12-14' surge. 140 mph winds

Those numbers are important.

[brooklynite]

5. Plus, the beach won't be crowded!

[peekaloo]

6. I hope he does a follow up.

I don't wish harm on anyone but Jebus she doesn't want the hassle of the return trip.

[Grammy23]

7. Apparently she has not been through a storm or she'd know

First responders lay low in the thick of the storm. They are not going to go out in the worst of the storm to rescue someone so hard headed about evacuating.

I once spoke to a woman who worked in dispatch for a rescue group with the sheriff during Hurricane Ivan (2004). She said one of the hardest parts of her job was taking calls from people who were in trouble...rising water and no way out ....and who were calling and begging for someone to come to their aid. One woman called repeatedly throughout the night asking for rescuers to come get her. She was climbing up on her counter tops, then into her attic to escape rising storm water. No one would be allowed out of their shelter to rescue her and it was the sad duty of the dispatcher to have to tell her that.

When they tell you that you are on your own once the storm starts coming in, they mean it. They will go out once it is safe but that could be many, many hours later. Be safe. Get out while you can.

[snowybirdie]

8. Doncha know

The storm is FAKE NEWS!

[smirkymonkey]

9. Darwin Award Winner.

Poor kids. They have no choice. I hope they survive.

[Iggo]

10. What, are they gonna stand on each other's shoulders?

[procon]

11. Definitely a Darwin Award contender, and she's going for the gold by taking her entire

ignorant gene pool out of existence.

[Guilded Lilly]

12. Mother Nature counts numbers on a completely different level...

And her numbers ALWAYS come out in the plus columns.

This is supreme arrogant ignorance.

[workinclasszero]

13. Is this not gross child abuse?

If she told her kids to go play in the street they would be taken away from her to safety but staying put in the path of a cat 4 hurricane is okay?

[FloridaBlues]

15. Stupid thinking when 10 ft surge banging on your house

[Baclava]

17. Storm surge projected 9 - 12 ft is some places, that's a 2 story building, with waves on top of that

People forget a cane landing ashore isn't a point on a map

[LuckyCharms]

16. The "40", as in 40 inches of rain, shows strength too.

And the 3 and 4, as in category 3 or category 4, is pretty strong too.

So is the "10", in 10 foot storm surge, or the "83" in 83 foot waves.

All of those numbers show strength too, Katie.

[Dem_4_Life]

18. WOW! Even her kids look worried in that still screen image.

Too bad the kids can't call in an order to self evacuate.

What a stupid mother.

[RhodeIslandOne]

19. You can bet who this idiot voted for.

[onethatcares]

20. "Lady, are you nucking futz?"

would have been my first words after hearing that. Then I would have told her that her kids drowning would be on her and if she lives she'll regret her choice everyday.

I would not mince words.