Exactly. The worst decision is to wait and do nothing until the last possible minute. Then everybody’s out of gas, supplies, there’s not enough time to get ready, and there are 50,000 people ahead of you in the line to get outta town.
95% of the time it’s not needed — but the rest of the time will scare the @#%^$ out of you.
I was totally appalled the last time we had big hurricanes here how many people were unprepared. We were newbies to hurricanes, but we had water, canned food, a grill with 2 propane tanks (both full) 2 cars with full gas tanks, plenty of batteries, flashlights, radio, etc. Lucky for us because it was about 2 weeks before we had electricity. We stayed (lots of our friends went north and got hotel rooms). It was no big deal really, kind of like camping, but in our house. And I didn’t have to worry that someone would break in while we were gone.