Originally Posted By: dweste

I am hoping to pick your brains to add considerations from your expertise or experience to help me think through my own decions on whether and when to flee. The more real world, the better.

Thanks.



If staying home would be fatal, then go.

If staying home might be fatal, go.

If staying home would be extremely unpleasant because of lack of services -- power, water, sewer -- or perilous because of looting or civil unrest.... then go.

The threshold of whether to go should be lower when there are children involved.

Those who've been in the projected path of hurricanes probably have the most applicable experience. They've had to weigh the dangers of staying home versus the drudgery and dangers of evacuating.

For them this discussion is more than theoretical.