If you are forced to evacuate

[x-y-no]

I never evacuate any great distance. My only concern is being far enough inland to avoid any storm surge. My new place is in Hallandale Beach, three blocks east of Federal Hwy. I won't stay there in anything forecast to be worse than a category 1. I'll probably go to my parents' house for anything bigger (have to go there to put up shutters anyway.)

[Beach0612]

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Heading to the mangroves here! Either that or get stuck on 1 with everyone else! haha

[Dionne]

The size of the storm makes no difference for us.....we are inland and will still evacuate. Our daughter manages an Outback Steakhouse in Memphis. I'll be eating prime rib and watching the storm blow Cantore into the next county. Katrina was enough for one lifetime.

[cajungal]

Not sure. We only evacuated for 1 storm before and that was Katrina. We always rode the storms out at home before. For Katrina, we evacuated to my aunt and uncle's home in Ville Platte in Central Louisiana. I guess we would probably go there again since they are far enough inland to escape any storm surge. Even though not for the wind damage since Rita messed up their roof as well as Lili before that. But, surge is the killer, not the wind. Now, we have a yorkie Chloe who at a year and half is still not housebroken despite all our efforts. So, they may object to having the dog in their house and where we go, Chloe goes.

[Ixolib]

Cat 1 or really weak Cat 2 I will stay in my house on the beach
Cat 2-3 I will stay at my sister-in-law's house about a half mile from the beach just down the road from my house, unless the storm is expected to bring a monster surge with it, or the storm was a 4 or 5 at some point in time while in the gulf.. then I'll go to Tennessee
Cat 4-5 again going to Tennessee... no use hanging around the MS Coast if we get another major storm cause things will be pretty difficult to deal with for a while...

No more Benachi Ave, huh!!

[Opal storm]

I would evacuate to my parents house in Milton.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

I'd probably evacuate to interior Tampa at elevation > 35 feet.
My house is around 9-10 feet or so above sea level

[Hurricaneman]

Springfield Ma, because if I ever had to leave in such an event, thats where Id go

[Frank P]

Cat 1 or really weak Cat 2 I will stay in my house on the beach
Cat 2-3 I will stay at my sister-in-law's house about a half mile from the beach just down the road from my house, unless the storm is expected to bring a monster surge with it, or the storm was a 4 or 5 at some point in time while in the gulf.. then I'll go to Tennessee
Cat 4-5 again going to Tennessee... no use hanging around the MS Coast if we get another major storm cause things will be pretty difficult to deal with for a while...

No more Benachi Ave, huh!!

Ahhhh my old Biloxi neighbor... Not going to evacuate to anywhere that got water from Katrina... period... gotta be high and dry, high being the key word...

Nashville just might be high enough next time... but with all this global warming and hype about the coming monster storms, might even have to go even farther north.. hehe

when ya coming home Ixolib?

[Typhoon Hunter]

No evacuation options for me. If there should be a direct hit by a major typhoon on Shanghai I'll be there with the camera rolling riding it out and hopefully publishing the pictures on here!

[LaBreeze]

I'm heading west to my sister's house in Houston or northwest to my niece's house in Nacogdoches. Lili hit me hard and Rita left me with just the concrete slab - so I'm out of here as soon as the word is given (maybe even before the word).

[LSU2001]

Since I have now moved to Cut Off La. and since I am inside a hurricane protection Levee, I will stay for a TD or Cat 1. Anything stronger and I am heading to Baton Rouge to stay with my parents. BR might get wind, rain and power outages but no water. I like the motto Run from the Water and Hide from the wind.
TIm

[alousteau]

Staying here in Baton Rouge. But will have my wife's entire family here (N.O. area), as with Katrina. We have a generator and a transfer switch on the house. Everything but AC, next season I am upgrading to a larger generator. The Fridge will be stocked with lots of Beer!!!! Usually we are only without power for a few hours maybe a few days (Andrew). Lost it for 4 hours with Katrina, and they didn't even blink with Rita. Although I still say Rita gave us worse winds in BR than Katrina. I just think the trees got thinned out or downed by Katrina so Rita didn't have much to work with. We are just far enough inland where it would have to be realllllly bad to wipe us out.

From what I have read in the paper last week, BR is not a evac city anymore. We are technically in outer edge of the danger zone, not to mention the staging area for all the rescue, recovery, etc. if farther south gets hit hard. They are only going to open shelters at the last moment and then only capacity for 20,000. I work for a tech company and we have a client in NO and they were trying to reserver a block of rooms for the season, no hotel in the city would do it. Once it is close to evac time or a storm in the gulf threating the area they are going strait first come first servered. So if you are below Baton Rouge and are planning on comming here, leave before the official evac or you will not get a room.

For Katrina my inlaws left at the last min, when the evac was called. It took them 15 hours to get to Baton Rouge from New Orleans. My sister in law left a few hours before the official evac, and they were here in 3 hours.

[olddude]

In the past I would bug out to my MIL's house in Leesburgh, Fl. however due to a divorce I doubt I am welcome any longer. I'll stay in a Cat 3 and under but a 4 or 5 it's West Palm beach for me.

[MSRobi911]

Well, I went to Meridian for Ivan and swore I would never leave again, it was worse up there than it was in Pascagoula and we couldn't get out because of all the pine trees that fell on the roads out of the camp we were staying at and out on the highways which were completely blocked and we couldn't even start home till the next day which really tt'd Robi off more than us, we had no power and he had power and cable. So for Katrina stayed at the courthouse again and watched 5 feet of water come inside the sheriffs Dept, but we had 4 floors to go up and the building is rock solid! But unfortunately here it is almost 2 years later and the Sheriffs Dept remains the same as it did the day of the storm, they haven't done a thing to it. Now they fixed the rest of the courthouse that wasn't damanged! Boy the latest Grand Jury gave the Board of Supervisors he!! for not repairing it yet. The Sheriffs Dept is still working out of tailers in front of the courthouse. Don't really know where I will go, Robi has no choice he has to be at the Sheriffs Dept Command Center wherever that is and my two kids will be back in college in North Mississippi at Ole MS and one at MS State...talk about a fight...stay with "girls" or stay with "boys" in an apartment.....NOT!!!! NOt counting the five and half hour drive during regular traffic time, so no thank you. This house we bought in Moss Point didn't get any water with Katrina although the river is right across the street, it was up to the door, but didn't come in so if another Katrina type storm comes or one more directly pointed this way don't have a clue as to what I will do. I guess I will make the decision when I have to. My sister lives in the corner of GA/FL town called Bainbridge so that is a five hour drive on I-10 during regular traffic, my brother lives in Crestview, FL so that is iffy.....

Mary

[TreasureIslandFLGal]

I'm staying put no matter what hits.

[stpeteweathergal]

We will evacuate just a few blocks to my mother in law's home. It was built in 1925, with steel reinforced concrete walls. They designed it after the 1921 hurricane came through. That house is not going anywhere.

[CrazyC83]

This house we bought in Moss Point didn't get any water with Katrina although the river is right across the street, it was up to the door, but didn't come in so if another Katrina type storm comes or one more directly pointed this way don't have a clue as to what I will do. I guess I will make the decision when I have to. My sister lives in the corner of GA/FL town called Bainbridge so that is a five hour drive on I-10 during regular traffic, my brother lives in Crestview, FL so that is iffy.....

Mary

Good point, had Katrina made a late wobble and made landfall 50 miles to the east in Ocean Springs you would have had the 30 foot surge that happened in Hancock County...perhaps more since it would not have had the land interaction of southeast Louisiana first (although that might not have been enough to save New Orleans either)...

[Dionne]

When I wake up tomorrow morning......and Barry has displayed a direct north attitude and is at or near hurricane level.......I will load up my dog, two cats.....wake up my wife and go eat prime rib in Memphis. Let the gurls go shopping.

[sevenleft]

I'll be spending hurricane season in Daytona Beach, living on the beach. So I'll prolly have a mandatory for any hurricane threat to Daytona. I'll either go to South Florida, or maybe up towards Fort Rucker, AL...