and I think that if you don't have an emergency plan that includes evacuation, you're a fool (sorry Blast, I read your posts, I think you took an unnecessary risk and you were lucky).
... Now, if a cat.4 hurricane was coming I'd have been on the road bugging out like a cat with it's tail on fire.
Every hurricane plan needs to a path and *especially* a go/no-go time, but that doesn't mean you evacuate every time. Evacuations are hazardous too.
I grew up about 400 *feet* inland on Galveston Bay and the entire time I lived there we never evacuated after Hurricane Carla - because it was never necessary, in that house, based on tides, storm surge estimates, etc. My mom grew up on a farm without electricity or running water and we were campers, so we just camped for a couple of weeks. The hazards of staying are greatly overstated by those unfamiliar with the problem...
Depending on your tree situation I doubt it's necessary for you to leave for a Cat 4 though it may be a lot more convenient than waiting a few weeks for air conditioning to return...
PS. We would have left for Ike no doubt - the storm surge forecast called for as much as 2 feet of water in that house (didn't even come close, but you don't know that ahead of time). Our go-no-go point would have been Wednesday morning.
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