I always believe, in areas where flooding is often a serious potential, that officials waiting to either suggest or demand evacuation is silly at best and wrong at worst.
People in those circumstances should get out of the way and the earlier the better. It only gets worse as everyone waits until finally some dumb official says they must evacuate, and then no one can ‘cause they’re all trying to do it at the same time.
To be clear, if flooding was not that likely in the case of my location, and if I had a good idea my building with its roof would hold, I would not evacuate only for the wind.
I would have been out of Florida by Monday, having used the weekend to prep the house and my family.