The short trips have been fine, but I didn't try and go to other islands during the storm when it was real choppy or anything. I'm not about to tempt it.

Some people don't have anything to loose. If there's no one waiting for you back home, what difference does it make what happens to you here? Also some people are dead, or dying. I assume if the door works the way people say it will, they'll go back to being dead.