Well, your plan wouldn't always work because of the unpredictability of storms.
I believe in trying to escape from a storm, but as in Charley last year, people that fled inland from the Tampa Bay area, say to Polk County, ended up right in the path of the storm because it turn in at Charlotte County and tore a path of destruction up the middle of the state.
My MIL's waterfront retirement community was evacuated from the Tampa Bay area within hours of the evac order. The traveled inland and stayed in a sister facility, sleeping on the floor. And what happened, the place they had relocated to got batter, and there wasn't even an inch of water or rain the parking lot of their waterfront residence.
All you can do is follow evac orders, but that doesn't mean you'll miss the fury of the storm.
All you can do is follow evac orders, but that doesn't mean you'll miss the fury of the storm.
True but New Orleans is the worst place to be as proven..it was only set up to survive a cat 3 most deaths will be from the surge and flooding not the winds...
With all due respect, you're just wrong. It would work, EVERY time, because I said they should drive 400 miles from the storm. NO hurricane does this kind of devastating damage 400 miles inland because (a) the most devastating damage is caused by storm surge (which is maybe 2 miles inland in the worst areas), (b) hurricanes weaken once they hit land, (c) an entire city wouldn't be flooded 400 miles inland, and (d) Cat 4-5 hurricanes are rare.
So even if they got caught in their cars in the direct path of the hurricane, a few would die from flying debris through their cars, but that would be a miniscule number of people compared with the human disaster we are witnessing now.