CBS Interviews Outer Banks Resident Who Is Not Evacuating: ‘You’re Going to Run the Same Risk Anywhere’

EXCERPT:

MASON: "Many people along the North Carolina coast here are heeding the warnings and getting out of Florence’s way. In the Outer Banks most tourists and residents have packed up and left, but Mark Strassmann is in Kitty Hawk at the home of one man who decided to stay. Mark, good morning to you."
STRASSMANN: "Good morning, Jeff. There’s a mandatory evacuation order in effect here. All these homes should be empty. But, there are always hurricane holdouts. One of them is the 71-year-old Dick Thompson, life-long resident. Why risk it?"
THOMPSON: "There’s always the same amount of deliberation on every one of these things. It all boils down to home, family, friends, here."
STRASSMANN: "But with so much to lose, why risk it?"
THOMPSON: "You’re going to run the same risk anywhere. Bottom line, you know, I’d rather be here and knowing what I’m dealing with than somewhere else and not knowing what I’m going to be confronted with."
STRASSMANN: "Might you make a last minute decision, call an audible and head inland if it looks ugly?"
THOMPSON: "I hardly think so."
STRASSMANN: "No?"
THOMPSON: "No."