- A reporter for CBS 4 Miami asked a family why they were not evacuating
- The man begins to answer, but a boy interrupts and says ‘because we’re savages’
- Hurricane Irma swamped downtown Miami with storm surge and blew the roofs off homes
A woman reporting on Hurricane Irma in Miami got an answer she could not have predicted when she asked a family why they were not evacuating.
A man began to answer that he believed they were safe, but a young boy quickly interrupts.
‘Because we’re savages,’ he said.
A Hurricane Irma reporter asked why a family did not evacuate Miami, and a boy responded: ‘Because we’re savages’
The clip is making the rounds across social media, with many hailing the boy as hilarious while others question the family’s decision.
Hurricane Irma has already killed at least 25 people and broke records for sustaining 185mph winds for 37 hours. 5.8million Floridians are without power.
Irma tore through Miami and swamped it with storm surge as well as blowing the roofs off homes.
Users took to social media to react to the viral clip.
‘I really want to see a “where are they now?” after the storm with this character’ one Twitter user said.
‘Even tho (sic) I think they’re idiots for staying, I hope they’re safe. Nature is by far the most beautiful thing to look at, but it can also be deadly’ another said.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott says there’s damage across the state caused by Hurricane Irma and it’s still too dangerous for residents to go outside or return from evacuation.
Some 200,000 people waited in shelters across the state as Irma headed up the coast.
The National Hurricane Center predicts the storm will cross Monday into Georgia, where Atlanta has been put on a tropical storm warning for the first time in history.