Hurricane Fay......?

Well today, Sunday, is the first time in a long time that the sun has come out. For the last 4 or 5 days, it has been nothing but wind and rain. The lake here was higher than I have ever seen it, and there were sporadic tornados. Trees down all around town, and a Tropical Storm that just wouldn't leave. The highest windgusts were clocked at 60 mph plus which is still a ways from being a class 1 hurricane.
I use to wonder if I would evacuate during a storm and at what level. Well, it became obvious in 2005 as my family of then 6 huddled in the pantry for 3 or 4 hours as the last of 3 hurricanes outer bands hit our area. We had debris and trees everywhere. There was an area of live oak trees spun out in a circle about 250-300 feet across(an obvious tornado and the reason we thought it sounded like a train as we huddled in the pantry.
If ever a class 1 hurricane is headed directly at us, we are gone.......no heroics this time as the winds and water and tornados coming off these things is unbelieveable.
Now evacuating with the D can be it's own set of challenges, but I would rather leave a day or 2 early and sleep in a hotel somewhere far away for a few days than I would wait until the middle of the storm and have to go to a shelter and live on a cot.......
I think just like Diaetes, proper planning cures a lot of ills...
Keep going, Peace, Bob