Amherst Times

I know we don’t live in an area that rarely gets hit by a hurricane or tornado so we have no real first hand knowledge of how it feels to be told to evacuate your home.  Still I wonder why so many in the southern states continually refuse to leave when they are given ample warning of impending disaster.  Do they really think they are going to beat Mother Nature?

“The Bolivar Peninsula is a barrier island-like finger of land east of Galveston Island; between the two is the entrance to Galveston Bay.  About 3,800 people live on the peninsula. Many residents who refused to evacuate were “hard headed,” believing they could ride out this storm much as they had previous ones, and refusing last-ditch pleas to leave.”
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