Best practice is to follow local reports and to determine whether roads are passable all along your route. Then, you must know whether you have enough gasoline for a possible round trip back to where you sheltered if the damage makes a home uninhabitable.
Local Emergency Management Ops will have most of the neighborhood info.
If local damage is extreme, LEO will likely not allow anyone into the area until SAR has cleared the area. If local damage allows for return, have documents for proof of residence to the locattion, and be prepared for power out, water contaminated. Now--do you have enough fuel to get back to a location for shelter.
Someone sent me a link to this handbook - we had friends going back into a flooded home to check damage & start cleanup after Harvey. They were woefully unprepared. The book serves as a guideline for recovery & also points out safety hazards that people may not think of in their rush to get back into their home.
From the book:
This information is published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the American Red Cross to help flooded property owners. It is designed to be easily copied. Permission to reproduce all or any section of this material is hereby granted and encouraged.
http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m4540081_repairingFloodedHome.pdf
From Chapter 2:
Things you will need when it’s safe to return home
Flashlight
First aid kit
Battery-operated radio
Waterproof boots or waders
Safety clothing, such as a hard
hat and gloves
Boots or shoes with hard soles
Dust mask
Camera or video camera to
record damage
Tools: crowbar, hammer, saw,
pliers, crescent wrench, screw
drivers, etc.
Drinking water
Trash bags
A wooden stick for turning
things over, scaring away snakes
and small animals, and moving
electrical wires
Cleaning supplies
Lots of good into follows the list in Chapter 2.