The majority of those who refuse to evacuate, 'the stragglers', posses nothing on this planet except the house they live in.
They have no savings, no relatives, no support group, NOTHING!
They have their house and their indpendance. If they evacuate, they lose both, they lose everything. In effect, their lives are over.
Having been warned multiple times of what they are risking, they have decided to stay, to protect their homes, and probably more importantly, maintain some little semblence of control over their own lives, rather than surrendering themselves to a bungling government beauracracy that will stick them into a shelter somewhere that they don't want to be, and promptly forget about them as 'a problem solved'.
How can anyone 'BLAME' them for trying to maintain what little they have?