One blessing, there’s plenty of running water.
Personally, if I lived out in the country around there, I would pound a point into the ground with a cistern pump on it. Listen to the elders how they got along without all the modern day crap we all have now. People will be OK if they find out from the old folks how they lived without running water.
The safest place to be, as far as buildings go, is a single story wood framed house.
Along the shore? In the city? Its a lottery if a person survives.