TRIGGER WARNING I can’t believe some people aren’t evacuating in Florida

[Newsenmum]

I really don’t mean to be insensitive. This hurricane Milton is terrifying but I’m really struggling to understand this. I know there are some awful situations where people can’t drive/are disabled or elderly and feel helpless but what I CAN’T understand is people not trying. Like they’re completely putting their head in the sand.

I’m part of a few mum Facebook groups that are mostly American. I kid you not, people are staying in zones with their little babies where there is mandatory evacuation. Some reasons why they aren’t leaving:

• my dog is aggressive and won’t be allowed in the shelter, so I’m staying put with him and going to hope and pray. Why is the dog worth more than a kid?
• i have too many animals which don’t fit in the car, I’m worried about the chickens (!!) again.. wtf? Basically suicide for their kids because they don’t want to leave chickens!
• im from flORIda so I’ll be fine! Hopefully it’s not as bad as they think. I don’t want to disrupt us. wtf??
• my babies have a block safe room and that’s ‘normally fine’

There are other Americans trying to send them money, urging them to go storm shelters or at least a bit more inland!

These are people in areas that have 15ft storm surge, there is so much debris already around that is going to be trashing their houses. If they want a certain death for themselves then fine but can’t get over them not saving their babies 😭😭😭 all because they won’t leave the bloody chickens that are going to drown either way!!

Wtf!!!!! This is live right looking at the clock??? These parents should be prosecuted this is unbelievable

There’s a child there now, posing on the ledge with her family actively encouraging it! This is mental!

At least he didn't chuck his tinny into the sea

Why are they not shitting themselves? Is it not meant to be that bad where they are?

Re. shooting your pets, you don’t actually know exactly what is going to happen, so you could kill your beloved pets, and then nothing significant happen in your area. You would then have to live with knowing you looked your dog in his trusting eyes and shot him dead for no good reason. I can see why people aren’t considering this.

They think it's the same as when the wave machine gets switched on at the swimming pool

That kid in the dark top is going to end up getting swept away. Bloody hell.

I don't get what's in it for the people on the Key West webcam. I can see that the children think it's fun to splash around, not realising the danger, but those just sitting on the wall getting drenched through and routinely wiping the salt water out of their eyes? That's just odd!

Utter madness! Chugging on a can of white claw while your spawn fend for themselves!

But I do think that they have a choice. There are people happy to drive down and collect them is fuel is an issue, people have offered up their homes, offered to take in pets, some roads could easily have been made one way only to allow faster evacuation. Instead people were using them to drive in and back and forth. There was a man in a boat who didn't want to leave his boat. He reckoned that he would be fine as he could swim. He wasn't exactly young and fit amd he only had 1 leg! People had offered to tow his boat, pay for a hotel, let him sleep In his boat in the garden. He said that he slept through the last hurricane and would just sleep through this one.

I'm worried about immediate danger of head injury, being bad bed and second, tornado and water spout.

Right?? And the waves are getting bigger fast

I can't believe what I am seeing on that camera, that water is getting higher in that corner.

The kid is now harnessing the force of the tide shooting out of the hole to shoot herself across the concrete!!!

A certain type of American tends to be big on individual liberty. They often like to defy the government just to exercise their freedom, even if it's not in their interest to do so. There are a lot of them in southern states, plus most southwestern and midwestern states.
There's a reason they are red states.
Some people in other states refer to Florida as Floriduh. It's mean, but probably not entirely undeserved.

Now lying on the wall! Wtf!!!

I feel sick watching that little girl, I hope she leaves soon

I think she has gone, can't see her now. Hope she is OK.

I hope so too

The storm has been downgraded to Cat 3 now, thankfully way down from the 5 of yest am. We have friends who have chosen not to evac… they feel v justified in their decision now…. I would absolutely personally not risk it, but they have experience of these situations that I don’t!!

Wtf? The basement is the last place you should be in flood conditions. They could easily drown.

Unless you have lived through hurricane / super typhoon force winds then you can’t possibly know what you would do. Hopefully the people who have stayed are self sufficient, have enough supplies and have secured their bricks and mortar homes having understood the predictions and timescales. It should be relatively quick and whilst severe winds and flooding will happen Im hoping most would have made a calculated decision.

Can see how bad it looks but it's mostly just spray coming over and the wall impedes the shallow flowback better than railings would.

The dangerous part looks to be off camera to the left where the wall appears to end.

Did anyone see that?

You have absolutely no idea of what you'd do and your posturing as some sort of better parent is nauseating.

This thread is in really poor taste.