"They could have evacuated."
"Why didn't they evacuate?"
"That's what you get for not evacuating."

As a lifelong Florida resident who grew up low-income on Sanibel Island which has been destroyed by #Ian hear me when I say this:

Evacuating is HARD.

— Phoebe the Career Coach (@betterwphoebe) September 29, 2022

It is. It takes logistics, money and transpo. Not including sunk costs (vehicle, etc.), it cost us about $1,000 to evacuate for three days.

A lot of people don’t have a grand just ready to toss around. And that doesn’t even include the cost of having to bin all our food because the power was off too long for much of it be salvageable.