Sometimes that isn't an option. I kind of recall a hurricane coming at Norfolk in 93 (?). I was ready to evacuate the family, but I had to stick around because of my military duties. WE went to go and try to find some 4x8 sheets of plywood to board up the windows, NADA..... None to be found anywhere in Va Beach. Fortunately, it missed us.
GLORIA hit the Norfork area in the 1980's and we were told to evacuate and go to shelters. We packed up the kids and went inland to a motel about 100 miles from the coast.
Good thing we did, when we got home the neighbors that went to the shelters told me ---NEVER AGAIN. The shelters were a Zoo.
First people in to the shelters were the working girls and their pimps. These private enterprises were harassing all males over the age of 10 who used the bathrooms. Woman who took their little girls to the bathroom had to lug everything they brought with them including the blankets and pillows from the cots set up for people to sleep on.
Noise level was defying, 150 boom boxes all on different stations, the smell of pot, The fighting between gangs, men and woman, woman against woman man against man.
So now we are facing the Beast in New England this week. That darn Shepard on Fox is beging to scare me.
We went through BOB in the 90's and came through with some damage but not devastation. Actually we ended up at the beach with 2,000 other idiots to watch the waves break over the light house.
My home is a big double wide and not tied down, up off the ground with cement blocks. Today I live 3 miles as the crow flys from the beach, and I believe the lot was built on wet land as 2 days of rain and the front yard will flood. We have 2, 60+ year old oak trees on both front and back of our home, at least 4 storys tall and big suckers.
That damn Shepard is doing his job , causing alarm and giving bazzar scenerios of what COULD happen. That SOB at one point in his strident voice told of what COULD happen in NY, the tunnels flooded and 20 feet of water at JFK airport.
Do we stay or do we go ???
Darn I have to make sure my medication is good for a month or more, pack everything in the Gun case, but what do I do with my cats, Hubbys birds.? I will take my dogs with me, but how do I leave my cats.?
The more I watch the weather channel and listen to that Shepard the more uneasy I get, what a mess.