Robert Bates wrote:
As a West Coast pilot, can anyone explain to me why people don't move their
aircraft out of the way of these storms? I'd call in sick and miss a day of
work before I risked by 30K+ investment.

1. That's what I have insurance for.

2. I have other more expensive assets (house) that I don't want to leave (unless
there's an evacuation order, of course).

3. Funny (maybe) story about hurricane Fran, 1996. I'm based at Raleigh-Durham,
about 150 or so miles inland. Fran was forecast to come ashore at Wilmington, on
the coast. Fran didn't read the forecasts, mostly missed Wilmington, hit
Raleigh-Durham pretty hard. As far as I know the only aircraft damaged at
Raleigh-Durham was one based at Wilmington that the owner had flown to RDU to
get it out of the way of the hurricane.