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Originally Posted by T@T
As for Katrina's fatalities, I hate to say it but probably 90% of those deaths were from stupidity, when you live in an area under sea level and were told to evacuate because of a monster storm pushing water is imitate, a smart person leaves.
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A smart person looks at all the risks and decides what is most prudent for themselves. Given the socioeconomic situation of the people hardest hit (those weren't great neighborhoods that got wiped out) and the violence and looting that followed the storm, I bet many of them judged the inability to protect their belongings and property to be of greater long term risk to themselves than another storm, which they'd ridden out many times previously. Maybe you lose your home and possessions to the storm, or maybe if you leave, you lose them regardless of whether the storm gets them or not.
One can never rule out stupidity, however I bet if you could ask any of those victims, they had a rationale for why they stayed. But they judged wrong, something even the most informed people do.