I can't even contemplate what would happen if they tried to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people out of Tidewater with a major hurricane bearing down. There's exactly ONE Interstate highway coming out of there (I-64) and in order to get to it from anywhere east or southeast of Newport News/Hampton, you have to cross at least one bridge-tunnel, either the Hampton Roads or the Monitor-Merrimac. It would be a nightmare.
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We would go south into North Caroline and then west to the family in the NC mountains. Would not even try to go through the tunnels. Also, leave early.