A good friend of mine commented on the previous post \u201chave an exit strategy at all times\u201d, saying that the difficulty to convince people that they may have to abandon their real estate comes from the \u201cnormalcy bias\u201d.<\/p>\n
Quoting Wikipedia on normalcy bias:<\/p>\n
\u201cNot limited to, but most notably: The Nazi genocide of millions of Jews. Even after knowing friends and family were being taken against their will, the Jewish community still stayed put, and refused to believe something was “going on.” Because of the extreme nature of the situation it is understandable why most would deny it.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cLittle Sioux Scout camp in June 2008. Despite being in the middle of “<\/i>Tornado Alley<\/i><\/a>,” the campground had no tornado shelter to offer protection from a strong tornado.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNew Orleans<\/i><\/a> before <\/i>Hurricane Katrina<\/i><\/a>. Inadequate government and citizen preparation and the denial that the levees could fail were an example of the normalcy bias, as were the thousands of people who refused to evacuate.\u201d<\/sup><\/i><\/p>\n
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Indeed like most sailors, I am quite foreign to the very concept of normalcy: boats most often reach their destination but they have been known to also do quite a few other things and sailors do not take anything for granted. In fact they also definitively have an exit strategy at all times in the form of safety boats, no matter how good the ship they are on is supposed to be. Most experienced captains will also make sure their crew can go through the emergency exits even with a full blackout. Sailors are immune to the normalcy bias.<\/p>\n![\"Motorcycle](\"http:\/\/hauteclairesecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Vermont-Motorcycle-Attorney1-300x186.jpg\")
Bikers also appear to be immune to the normalcy bias as well, not even speaking about the gangs here; just mentioning that road travel on a motorcycle is seldom normal. Did you ever saw a biker riding and texting in the same time?\u00a0 He is too busy making sure those who are texting in their cars will not run him over.\u00a0 \u00a0In fact bikers are caught in an interesting tactical difficulty as in any war on two fronts; safety on two wheels has much to do with going faster than the traffic, but then going faster than the traffic has a tendency to bring into the picture some cars with funny lights whose drivers have absolutely no sense of humor. And then of course there are the dragon flies that will make a blotch on the visor that blinds you just when you were accelerating significantly to pass a car and change lanes.\u00a0 Bikers, like sailors are paying attention because in their world the sanction systematically follows the mistake and the death penalty applies often to infinitely small mistakes.<\/p>\n![\"retouched-puertorico-0271-watermarked\"](\"http:\/\/hauteclairesecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/retouched-puertorico-0271-watermarked-200x300.jpg\")
There we have it; a huge communication problem between those, unaffected by the normalcy bias, and on their toes most of the time, and their good fellow citizens who just cannot understand why on earth tomorrow would ever be different from yesterday.<\/p>\n