I'm sending your post to my niece; she just bought a house in Wilmington and just this very day experienced her first storm, Charley....and it freaked her out. Maybe if I send it to her, she won't ever consider staying again.
Would you?
Heck no! :-)
The first set of winds (tropical storm strength?) wasn't good at all and that was when the transformers started to explode. Why would anyone want to be in the middle of that?
They showed footage today of a house burning _during_ the storm, when power lines came down on it. The fire crew couldn't put out the fire, since the storm blew the water back at them (I'm guessing they couldn't get upwind due to the lines).
Also, if you think it's just a cat 1 and can stick it out, what do you do if it strengthens at the last minute? Do you want to be caught in your car driving away from it?
No thanks!