Kingarabian wrote:Unfortunately it looks like my opportunity to evacuate if needed is going out the window. For 1.4million Hawaii residents, there are only 270k shelter places available statewide.
So I'm at a dilemma here. I have a small apartment on the ground floor in a 2 story building made out of concrete. I was planning on hunkering down in there if Lane affected Oahu with strong hurricane winds. Now, there's a possibility that Lane affects Oahu as a huge flood threat. However my apartment is prone to flooding, because it's at street level. My other unit is a full size home downslope on a hill, but also 15 feet off the ground (I don't know why they built it this way, but we just use the bottom as a basement)and It was built in the 70s, -- the building materials have begun to go bad (my roof leaks when it rains). But it's never gotten flooded. However it's at huge risk to be leveled if hurricane force winds reach it.
So I have to pick my poison here... sit in a low level apartment and possibly get flooded, but be safe from high winds. Or sit in a creaky house, avoid flooding waters, but risk getting damage from winds.
The usual advice is to hide from wind and run from water, but in your situation I would stay in the concrete apartment building. You can always evacuate vertically if the flooding situation becomes too bad. Also i would be very concerned about mudslides impacting your hillside home sitting on stilts.
