After Superstorm Sandy killed 117 people along the East Coast in 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a startling finding: The leading cause of death was drowning, and nearly half of the drownings occurred in flooded homes where mandatory evacuation orders were in place.

Inizia così questo breve articolo di Scientific American che prova a chiedere a diversi esperti come e perché alcune persone non evacuano durante un allarme generale.

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