On MSNBC just now. A group of folks sitting in a bar

[upaloopa]

in Melborne FL a few blocks from the shore feel they are safe. The eye of the strom will most likely go through there and 10 ft storm surge is likely.

Why the hell don't those folks get in their cars and drive west away from the danger?

[Stallion]

1. Evolution Thinin' the Herd

Survival of the Fittest

[gordianot]

2. People are willing to vote for Trump for similar reasons.

Call it what you will.

[monmouth4]

3. Hurricane parties are big down here. Big restaurant/bar here in West Palm is open for their

Hurricane party. Can't miss a money making opportunity vs. safety

[Ilsa]

4. I've been asking myself this since watching that 70 year old man

On NBC Nightly News say he was staying in his easy chair, watching the weather coverage, until the power goes out. He lives on Nettles Island, on the west side of a barrier island. His elevation might be 4-5 feet. Maybe. I think the local emergency people need more body bags.

[herding cats]

7. I saw that man tonight.

I told my husband I have sympathy for his loved ones.

[Ilsa]

14. In some other places, like Galveston, when residents

refused to leave, the police, etc asked for a short list of family members and their phone numbers so the police can notify them of their deaths from flooding, etc. They weren't asking to be dramatic, either, but sometimes it helped persuade them to evacuate.

I heard that after hurricane Ike, there were still a lot of missing people who stayed that should have evacuated. The port authority reluctantly opened the ship channel even though they believed there were still bodies to be recovered.

[NightWatcher]

5. Beer makes you feel 12 foot tall and bulletproof. That 2 above the possible surge, they're cool.

But seriously, they're at a bar.

[UTUSN]

6. "Hurricane parties" - like BOCACCIO's Decameron peeps spinning tales while plague is out there

[Scurrilous]

8. Harry Randall Truman Syndrome

[marybourg]

12. Sat in his rockin' chair

on Mt. St. Helen's, right?

[Scurrilous]

13. That's the guy.

[gratuitous]

16. I remember Harry

He also seemed to know what he was doing, and didn't expect anyone to come save him if the mountain blew. He was 84, had lived on the side of the volcano for many years, and was all right with going out that way. Compare and contrast with folks who refuse to leave, but who nevertheless expect to be at the top of the priority list if things go very bad for them.

[King_Klonopin]

10. I am told by someone who actually lives in Melborne that the town is a place

where people who are evacuated from the coast are SENT TO.
It is far enough from shore, but folks still have to batten down
and prepare for serious problems. They are not necessarily at
risk of being killed.

This is what I was told.

[sarcasmo]

11. Folks sitting in a bar

Drunk folks have very little sense.

[snooper2]

15. Yeah that didn't happen- I saw them last night thought it was hilarious

Reporter was talking to the bartender lady and the three patrons didn't really want to be on camera LOL. Camera dude then focused on bartender but at the end panned one last time at the people at the bar. Heard some kind of drunken slur

Reporter dude was like, yeah maybe I shouldn't have come back in here