I understand your frustration, but wishing to see mass evacuations is not something to say out loud.

Monitoring out-of-town visitors as a storm approaches diverts scarce resources. Those visitors will want to be fed and housed while cooks, waitresses and hotel clerks should be home boarding their windows and moving their families to safe ground four days before the storm hits. working. Visitors want to pump gas into rental cars when residents are waiting in line to get gas for generators or to fill their cars so they can get out of town. And car rental companies would rather get their cars to high ground than have them returned to the airport two days before the storm hits.

I have limited experience with hurricanes in Florida. I have been evacuated twice, and I flew in the day after one hit. I have seen the tourism industry struggle to keep visitors happy when every worker was worrying about their own homes and family. My concerns as a visitor seemed petty in comparison.