What's the "logic," if any, behind throwing a "Hurricane Party"?

This happens frequently, it seems. A bunch of folks in the path of a hurricane hunker down and decide that they are gonna stay exactly where they already are, and take on a, “Damn the storm, full speed ahead!” attitude.

They have Honda® portable electric generators (in case of a predictable power failure), plenty of food (and charcoal barbeque grills) and a party-hearty spirit, of course, borne of the belief that all of them are immortal, and that the idea that a hurricane will kill them is, “just totally ridiculous!”

Any psychologists/psychiatrists in here, who want to take a stab at explaining this to me? I’ll settle for a layman’s explanation, also.