They aren't the first yankees that refused when they were told to leave.
I know someone who was manning the 911 emergency system when Hurricane Ivan hit in Pensacola. Well, in advance of the hurricane sheriff's deputies and police went door to door in certain pre-identified neighborhoods and told everyone to leave. If someone refused, they had them fill out forms identifying themselves and how to contact their next nearest kin, so the body could be delivered after the storm. They were told repeatedly, always by yankees, that they had survived blizzards and they weren't going to let a hurricane chase them out.
This one 911 operator took five calls during the height of the storm from people begging for emergency to come save them from their house as it blew apart under the pressure of the wind and waves. Each caller was told the same thing, Someone will be along as soon as the counties emergency management team considered it safe to dispatch emergency personnel. Most of the callers died in the storm, along with families. They were all yankees that decided they knew better than people who had lived in Florida all of their lives.
