Saturation....
If you haven't seen hurricane updates in the news somehow in the past 24 hours you live in a hole. It's plastered all over the media worse than a hollywood sex scandal, except this time it has merit as a news story.....or does it
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it's difficult to do what you say, pack up your valuables, family & leave for the chance that a hurricane will hit the city. that's really all it ever is, a chance. in my experience, hurricanes are relatively unpredictable. there are paths that they're likely to take, and paths that they're unlikely to take, kind of like a 12% chance of rain. a week in advance warning is a weak warning. by the time the thing hits, it could have been a tropical storm on the verge of collapse, hardly something worth the time, money and difficulty of evacuating. i think that alot of these people made the gamble, the gamble that the hurricane wouldn't be that strong, wouldn't hit them straight on, wouldn't be as dangerous as stated on the television. they were determined to be the neighbors that people came back to, who took the risk and came out on top. they gambled with their lives, perhaps unknowingly, and many of them lost. hindsight is 20/20. if the hurricane had missed the city, been weaker, etc., they would have been the smart ones that "knew better", not the dead ones.
that's just my view on it. personally, i would have evacuated if i could.
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And for some people, the risk of the hurricane's coming and damage just doesn't outweigh leaving and having your home succeptible of looters. Some corporations probably didn't want all of their workers to leave as well due to just a threat. Why threaten operations when there might have been no need?
Also, the final, official call to evacuate came during work hours and by the time everyone was out of work, it was too late to evacuate.
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