If you don't leave the building you will not be having any more meals ever again.

More times than I can die that’s for sure.

I would rather risk homelessness and starvation rather than drowning. If the water around the place I am is rising I am going to get to safety. Full stop. No job is worth risking my life for.

I understand what you're saying, but at the end of the day if you are dead, nothing else matters.

You'd be without many meals if you died in a flood.

Have you ever been dead? Your argument sounds exactly like my question.

Yes and yes. And now I don't rely on untrustworthy businesses for my paycheque. It's not worth the risk.

I could go without for a day... but if I had dependents, I'd be worried for not just the day, but every day after that too

Good luck fighting my unemployment when I tell them I got fired for keeping myself safe in a natural disaster.