I do feel bad for those who are trapped after the storm, but.....

[duncang]

18. To me it's a split decision

I can't know every reason someone may stay. Or what they were thinking as valid reasons. I have left a few times and stayed other times. But I have always lived at least 50 miles away from the coast.

On another post here I told about one time we left. I was a kid. We were on the road and the hurricane shifted. It was supposed to go the other direction we were traveling. It followed us. Being stuck out on the road in a rv was a nightmare. We did park up against a what appeared to be solid structure. But watched all night as it wiggled.

Another more recent hurricane we went west to go toward Austin. A guy I knew from work went to Dallas. They got stuck in traffic because of our governors inaction. (Texas) His mother in law died from a heart attack while stuck. The stress was just too much. There is no way to know if she would have died that day anyways, but they probably will be very leery of evacuating next time. The hurricane came and moved off while people were still on the highways around Texas.

Personally I can't see anyone out on the barrier islands staying. If you live some place like that you should be prepared to leave. No excuses.

In the end the local and state government had stopped all rescues while it was considered unsafe for the rescue workers. So as far as I know anybody even though they asked for rescue had to take responsibility for their decisions and wait until safe for rescuers.