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46 minutes ago, largetornado said:

The blatant disregard for life and property in this thread is appalling. 

Some of it (maybe a lot) is just an extension of politics.  I have no doubt there are certain people in this thread who wouldn't care if hundreds of Floridians die from this.

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7 minutes ago, H2O said:

They were told to leave

Yeah honestly-hard to have much sympathy for people in Ft Myers/Cape Coral that stayed. If you’re told to leave and warned for days about the storm and refuse, that’s on you. And if they assumed EMS can come get them now, that’s a hella rude awakening for them too. Those surge maps showed maybe 90% of Cape Coral underwater up to 9 feet. With 200k people there, if even 10% decided to stay, yikes. 

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Just now, jm1220 said:

Yeah honestly-hard to have much sympathy for people in Ft Myers/Cape Coral that stayed. If you’re told to leave and warned for days about the storm and refuse, that’s on you. And if they assumed EMS can come get them now, that’s a hella rude awakening for them too. Those surge maps showed maybe 90% of Cape Coral underwater up to 9 feet. With 200k people there, if even 10% decided to stay, yikes. 

The USAR teams will be busy

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2 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Yeah honestly-hard to have much sympathy for people in Ft Myers/Cape Coral that stayed. If you’re told to leave and warned for days about the storm and refuse, that’s on you. And if they assumed EMS can come get them now, that’s a hella rude awakening for them too. Those surge maps showed maybe 90% of Cape Coral underwater up to 9 feet. With 200k people there, if even 10% decided to stay, yikes. 

And it’s one thing if you’re poor and can’t afford to leave like with Katrina in New Orleans. These people are not poor. 

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I'm a weenie like the rest of you. That being said, if you're really claiming that everyone deserves what they have coming, it's well documented that evacuation is hugely impacted by income inequality: 

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10204514

In short, there are a lot of poor people who either don't have relatives to stay with, the financial means to up end and move (I mean, a hotel room is a huge chunk of salary for some, etc). Sure, if you're well off and chose to stay, sorry pal. But for a lot, it just isn't an option or at the least, a very hard and grey decision to make. 

All that to be said, holy moly this is one hell of a storm. 

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1 minute ago, Trueshot104 said:

I'm a weenie like the rest of you. That being said, if you're really claiming that everyone deserves what they have coming, it's well documented that evacuation is hugely impacted by income inequality: 

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10204514

In short, there are a lot of poor people who either don't have relatives to stay with, the financial means to up end and move (I mean, a hotel room is a huge chunk of salary for some, etc). Sure, if you're well off and chose to stay, sorry pal. But for a lot, it just isn't an option or at the least, a very hard and grey decision to make. 

All that to be said, holy moly this is one hell of a storm. 

Excuses.  Go live in a car for a couple days. Talk with your neighbor.  Walk to the shelter. 

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