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I've lived in tornado alley for much of my life. During tornado season everyone watches the weather, and has a plan on what they are going to do. I would find it VERY strange if my neighbor suddenly started banging on my door telling me a storm was coming. I would absolutely already know from the same sources they know. Most of us are hyperaware of our dangerous weather. I imagine that point is the same for those that live in hurricane areas.
Because you said the "got out" then it sounds like it was a hurricane. If a tornado is closing in, the worst thing you could do would be try and "get out". So what's even more confusing if this was a hurricane, those have days worth of notice. Everyone in that trailer park would have known a hurricane was coming days before and could either choose to leave, go to a hurricane shelter, or decide to stay put. The reality is that trailers are the worst form of protection during bad weather, tornadoes or hurricanes.
What exact action you would expect from the middle-class family that wouldn't make them racist/elitists from you post? Physically knocking on doors of dozens of trailers saying "a storm is coming" days before they leave?
I’ve been surprised by hurricanes before, it’s not impossible that it goes from a category 3 to a hurricane in the span of twelve hours to a day, and it’s relatively easy not to see news about it. I’m not in Florida, so it could be different there, but I’ve never heard of a hurricane siren, for example.
Cat 3 is already a hurricane isn't it? Cat 1 is too. Below that would be "Tropical Storm" and below that "Tropical Depression", right?
But you knew about the Cat 3. Would you still have expected the middle class guy from the house down the street to come and knock on your door (and that of dozens of your neighbors in trailers) telling them that the Cat 3 had upgraded to something worse while he's trying to drive his family out of town?
My one experience with hurricane evacuation was when I was visiting Florida. Notices of danger are literally all over the place. Businesses close, grocery stores empty out, and THE TRAFFIC! Something like 12 hours before the expected arrival the government even authorizes all interstate highways to be unidirectional. What this means is that both sides of the highway are traffic flow away from the storm. Yes, half the drivers are driving "the wrong direction" down at highway speeds away from the storm. It was kind of fun actually legally driving the wrong way down an Exit ramp onto the highway going the wrong direction. Fun fact I never knew, there are a whole bunch of "WRONG WAY" signs on the back of the regular interstate highway signs. We never see them because we're going the right way. Also, the road reflectors in the separating the lanes are ALL RED. Again, you only see them if you're driving the "wrong" direction, which we legally could during the evacuation.
Yeah, I brain farted. I meant category three to category five. Category three is not really a concern where I grew up (~50 miles inland), but category five will fuck things up. Because of that, news coverage and radio interruptions and the similar tend to set in around category 4.
I guess I found out about most hurricanes from talking to other people because it becomes a topic of small talk, so maybe that’s coloring my perspective. I would expect people to talk to their neighbors about it, if they suspect that their house will be swept away, if only to check what their plans/forwarding address will be.
I know you typed a lot, but a simple "hide ya kids, hide ya wife" from the bougie woulda been nice.
And deny you the chance to make the joke? I'm not heartless.