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.
Like, people who have never even been in a heavy storm saying shit like this rankles me something fierce
I've seen tornadoes and hurricanes up close and nothing makes you feel smaller than to see something like that
Like, these are the times when there should be some force dedicated to helping people evacuate because forcing people to handle these situations on their own is like telling an ant to try to fight the sun
Nothing like applying rugged individualism to fighting the literal forces of nature.
As a Floridian I have stand-your-ground and castle doctrine so I do literally have the right to shoot at it and I thank the flag every day for the right to defend myself.
Big government strikes again!
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/10/florida-sheriff-warns-residents-not-to-shoot-at-hurricane-irma.html
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
I salute the heroes who go out every hurricane to try to fight it off.
For me it's earthquakes and tsunamis. You can survive the sky, but when the earth and the sea turn against you there is no hope.
There are organizations helping with evac, but it's mostly folks like us - lefties, ad hoc anarchist efforts, churches, and just regular decent people. It's not enough, but, well, it's what we've got.