Having been through about a half dozen hurricanes myself, I keep thinking about a woman in an article the day before Sandy hit, who had rented "several" movies and lived near the waterfront, and who planned to ride out the storm with her children on the 9th floor of their building.
Her last words were, "It's going to be great"!
I wonder how many movies they actually got to watch and how many times she has had to climb 9 flights of stairs?