“So here’s the scenario, and assume this is well before the hurricane has hit...so there’s plenty of time to buy supplies and equipment”
First rule of surviving a bad situation: don’t be there.
In this case, the warning time was measured in days, if not years.
“First rule of surviving a bad situation: don’t be there. In this case, the warning time was measured in days, if not years.”
We know where “there” is, but do we know where we can live that doesn’t have its own threats? Think about areas of the country, and there is almost always a real threat, from something. Near St. Louis, for example, they have to worry about an earthquake that would be larger than any ever recorded (the last big one there rang church bells in Boston).