Exactly!
Once I knew there was a good chance, I’d be gone. The traffic would only get worse.
So what’s the worst that could happen? You lose a few days of work and go back to your home just the way you left it.
Oh the humanities!
Traffic is already an issue...I live in the Tampa Bay area. I watched the traffic cams earlier today I 275 is already a parking lot.
Looks like it’s moving away from us (but being a 7th generation Floridian, I know the hurricane will do whatever it wants, not necessarily what the meteorologist says it will.) I remember Charley, a few years back, was supposed to be heading to Tampa Bay, but decided to take a sharp right and come in at Port Charlotte and it did awful damage.
What drives me crazy is the panic. It’s like water only comes in bottles. Have they ever heard of tap water. When we were kids, my folks would fill the bathtubs, buy big garbage cans (they were aluminum then) and fill them with water. Water solution solved :) And in June buy some peanut butter and jelly
and some canned goods, and set them aside. Once hurricane season is past, then you can eat them if you haven’t had any hurricanes and no need for them.
As for plywood, these storms come every year, get some, cut it to size, and have your anchors set.
We’ve always chosen to shelter in place (even when I was a kid and we had a couple whoppers go through.) We do that now, board up the windows, be well supplied and wait. But we aren’t in an evacuation zone even though we’re less than 2 miles from the water, go figure. We do have some elevation about 13 ft. above sea level and lots of lakes around on the golf course help to keep us from flooding even when other parts of the city do. We’ve lived in this neighborhood 30 years and I’ve never seen standing water in the street.
The houses we’ve lived in have been block, and other than fallen trees, we’ve been fortunate.