That is one factor that deters many people from evacuating. It’s one thing to have a largish expense bill for evacuating if the storm actually rolls thru and destroys your home — money well spent.

It’s totally another thing if you leave work to evacuate and then find a much larger credit card bill and a lower paycheck, and find that not a blade of grass has been disturbed. Do that often enough and you stop evacuating — human nature ... and then your home gets wiped with you in it. That’s why all the hype and exaggeration is dangerous. After one-too-many times of the people in charge crying wolf — just to cover their ass so they can say you were warned, people stop responding to the warnings — human nature.