Ever-Growing Cost Of Evacuating Pushes Some To Stay In Disaster Zones

Amid hurricane season, the cost of living in the potential path can be high, and the impact of COVID and supply chain gaps are making it even worse.

Whether you stay or go, the cost of living in the potential path of a hurricane can be high. And with the impact of COVID and supply chain gaps this year, evacuations are even tougher.

In southeast Louisiana, people are used to hurricane season protocols.

New Orleans resident Quentin Thomas spent days stuck in the Caesars Superdome following the historic Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He says come hell or high water; he knows exactly what he'll do ahead of the next hurricane: He's getting out of town.