This is a bloody monster storm. It's a disaster when something like this hits the developed world (as we call it); the human toll in the developing world is beyond imagining.

I've read a few stories of people, subsistence farmers, staying in the danger zone to try to protect their crops and livestock -- everything they have in this world. Foolhardy no doubt, but understandable also. They have no fallback position. May the Fates treat them with compassion.