Community Chat

[AuntG]

If there is a minimal loss of life, then I suppose your friend will say she did the right thing.  However with a shelter just a mile away, why risk staying in a trailer - of all things?

[MarieIG]

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@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:

Gosh, I wonder why - is she afraid of looters?

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She did not mention looters.  She mentioned that it was crowded, dirty, and that her son's girlfriend and children came to stay with her.  I told her it was temporary and to take the girlfriend and children to the shelter with her.

[MarieIG]

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@mistriTsquirrel wrote:

I'm so sorry, @MarieIG.  Is she at least going to the shelter?  Did she say why she wouldn't evacuate?

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Not going to a shelter.  She gave reasons, none of them seemed very good to me.  It would be crowded and dirty.  

[MarieIG]

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@momtochloe wrote:

@MarieIG I am so sorry to hear this as just seeing the wind at this point is frightening and it doesn't sound like she is in a very secure place.  I wish she had gone to the shelter.  Good thoughts and prayers and bless you for being such a good friend.

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Thank you

[MarieIG]

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@INDIANA BONES wrote:

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@MarieIG wrote:
My friend move to Florida a year ago, and bought a mobile home on the West coast in Largo.  She is not on the beach, but is in a mandatory evacuation location, but refuses to evacuate, even for her granddaughter who begged her to go. My pleading did not help. There is a shelter a mile from her home. I am very scared.  It is going to be a long 48 hours.  She will call me after the storm if she can. 

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HOPEULLY your friend decidded before the deadline to evacuate.  She is certainly not in a good position living in a mobile home.    This being her 1st hear in FL, she must not realize what the wind gusts get up to and also the chance to tornados.  I do hope her granddaugher does not live with her.   Sad and she will be in my prayers that she finally called to be evacuated before the cut off.    We pulled out our metal barriers at Myrtle and headed up to eastern Va until we see what path the storms will be taking.  Best wishes to all 

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Thank you.  Her granddaughter is an adult and lives upstate New York.

[MarieIG]

Thank you everyone. I hope she changes her mind and goes to the shelter, but I probably won't know anything before tomorrow. 

[Financialgrl]

That's just nuts especially since they've always been in the line of fire from day one so no excuse!  I have 2 cousins in Tampa in a first floor apartment who were planning on staying with friends on higher floors when it was expected to hit the east coast bc they were mostly expected flooding.  

BUT once the storm changed course, everyone had to regroup fast.  Sadly, gas lines and traffic made it impossible to get out - and that happened quickly.  They were able to relocate a few miles inward to a friend whose home is boarded, has hurricane shutters and has 2 levels so . . . all one can do is pray at this point!

[JaneMarple]

I pray that your friend gives in to her stubbornness and from what I've seen on the news her mobile home will be battered pretty badly. In this situation, looting is the last thing that anyone should be worried about. It's a question of things vs life!

[Vivian]

There are people who go into denial mode, as if staying put will somehow prevent the storm from hitting them. My 22 year old grandson refused to go to my daughter's house in Orlando. He was going to stay in Tampa with his girlfriend, but at least we were able to convince him to go to her father's home, a bit further inland in Zephyr Hills. He's been acting the he-man, pseudo-protector to his girlfriend. I hope they'll be OK. My daughter is furious that they didn't go to Orlando. She actually called him a name that begins with a synonym for mule plus a synonym for orifice. 

[Sooner]

I think all of us at times make decisions about life that others don't understand.  We all have things we should do, things we should be afraid of, and information we ignore.  

We drink, smoke, eat sugar, eat fried and fast food, take chances driving, and do a million other things against "known" information and what we are told.  We've done it since childhood when mother said "NO!"

So don't be too hard on people who don't do what you would do.  Maybe they are afraid to go somewhere else, don't know where to go, don't have money to go, are too afraid of leaving their home, or their cat or whatever.  Let's just worry about them, pray for them and us, and put away anger.   Anger doesn't change them or us, but compassion does.