>>>One thing I heard, not confirmed as true mind you, just a comment I heard, was that some people refused to leave because they thought they would be charged for the bus ride and they couldn't afford it.
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>>>Also heard the same from a helicopter crew that some people had to be convinced (forced) to be lifted by assuring them they would not be charged for the service. Sad.
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>>Indeed it is sad if that was the case. But why would they think they would be charged for the evac. service?....
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>Maybe the logic went something like this... I have to pay for an ambulance, and this is just about the same thing.


Probably. These are the forgotten people. The poorest and most uneducated of society. Unfortunately they are invisible to the media, and all of us, until catasprophe happens. I am not surprised by their distrust of government and the establishment in general, even when they come to save them.