Why, when you have been told that staying where you live "may mean certain death", would you stay there? Don't tell me it's because that's where your stuff is.
I *think* it's because you think that if you leave your home, the government will fully destroy it in "cleanup" before you can get back to it. I *think* that's why.
Either that or you're a Katrina evacuee who just got their life back together and you figure if God wants to kill you then what the hell.
Yeah, my understanding is it's often because you have very little and none of it is insured, so if you abandon it you'll be coming back to absolutely nothing and no way to rebuild (and the government has already more or less proved you won't get the aid you need, as far as that goes). And because people are fantastically stubborn and because the sense of property as a form of identity and self-worth is a heavily engrained one in this country.
Sick, poor, no way to leave, nowhere to go, nothing in the world except the house your living in. Helplessness. Lack of control. Skepticism that you'll receive aid if you do leave. Panic. Stubbornness. Trying to keep control over one aspect of your life as everything else moves on without you. Ignorance. Contrariness. Refusal to face the facts. It's the whole gamut of the human condition.
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Either that or you're a Katrina evacuee who just got their life back together and you figure if God wants to kill you then what the hell.
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