With evacuation orders or warnings in effect from San Jose to Sonoma County, Bay Area officials grapple with the delicate dance between risk and personal freedom.
As the Bay Area weathers a series of punishing storms, local officials are grappling with a familiar dilemma during both floods and fires: what to do when people refuse to flee for their own safety.
Despite the risk, moving people out of harm’s way by force is a last resort. “People are entitled to their own choices, and we respect their individual rights and civil liberties,” Carolina Camarena, spokesperson for the city manager’s office, said in an email. Deputies and other first responders who go door to door telling residents to evacuate can’t waste time getting into a “tussle” with anyone who disregards the order, Valencia said. Instead, they record the location of the house and the number of people refusing to leave — in case it becomes the scene of a crisis later.
And even though rain totals Wednesday night were lower than anticipated, it doesn’t mean the region can let its guard down, said Dial Hoang, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service of the Bay Area. Additional storm systems are expected to hit the region Friday night and Monday. One 50-year-old man, living in a make-shift shack of concrete and wooden pallets just 10 feet from the edge of Coyote Creek, dismissed the evacuation order Wednesday. “They’re making a big deal out of nothing,” the man said, declining to give his name.
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