I assume you have never lived in an area threatened by hurricanes before. You are given plenty of notice to prepare. You clean your yard of ‘loose things’ and you board up your house.
You go to the store early and buy batteries and candles, jugs of water and all manner of non perishable foods to last a week or two. The stores run out of supplies.
You fill your bath-tubs with water for flushing and you fill pots and pans with additional water for washing. You have a butane stove handy for needed cooking.
BECAUSE during and after the hurricane there are NO stores open, there are NO gasoline stations open for many days, the power is out and people stay in their homes.
In all my years I have never seen a looter in south Texas hurricanes. Katrina was a sad example for our country. Mayor Nagin did not use school buses to carry out the poor people and obviously the city had many who were desperate after-wards.
I hesitate to say it, but it is true that that city had a large population of uneducated people who did little to help themselves beforehand. But, they had guns for the looting after-wards.
In most cities if there is not bad flooding you can travel to a hospital or shelter for help and there will be police out and about.
I could write a book on the horrors of evacuation but this is already too long. All I can say is board up and evacuate early, and yes I would take my gun along with me no matter what they say.
Your first mistake was ass-um-ing I have never been in a natural disaster, which unfortunatley I have.
Your second mistake was not reading the law which pertained to both emegencies and riots, both of which may or may not involve hurricanes.
If there is a disaster or riot I believe I should have the right to leave my property to go help those who may need help such as friends and relatives. Hurricanes do not always track exactly as prepared for and may turn and go from one area to the another. I’m a big boy and I think I can make up my own mind as to where I want to be when and emergency strikes, be it in my abode or that of someone else who may be better or less prepared than I am.
Again it is a “shotgun” law trying to curtail anyone from carrying weapons instead of coming down on those that use weapons to commit crimes. Its almost like a thought crime, carrying a weapon becomes illegal no matter your intent, the government doesn’t want you to be able to think and defend yourself, they want to do it even if they cant. Police just minutes away when seconds count.