My brother has been trying to get his daughter and grandson out of Charleston, which surely will flood like crazy. Last time she was out of power for a crazy long time.
I would not want to be in some of the single wide trailers and manufactured housing in this area.
Am reminded how secure we felt as kids in a bad storm because the walls on our 1720 home were three feet thick stone.
Nothing was going to huff and puff and blow us down.
I think my current home is built adequately but who knows. Already has an insurance shingle job on it...
When you don't have a basement it's hard to feel fully safe. Can't have basements here so assuming one's roof is still on, all one can do
is hunker down near the chimney.
While living aboard my boat in South Florida hurricane went right over us, hit 110mph on big yacht's recording weather rig next dock over.
What I remember the most was the noise. In this case an eerie moaning, deep moaning sounds which you couldn't figure out where it was coming from, like something big was being tortured, and turns out it was the giant flagpoles they had erected all down the roadway. Something had hit a resonance or harmonic and those poles were like pipes on an organ, playing a very unintentional tune. Spooky...
Around here the noise will be the rattling of gutters and some occasional what was that noises.
And the exhaust vent in the kitchen will be having a fit, wanging away. Now that gets tiresome...
We can hunker down a bit without problems. Might have to depending on road damage/closures on main highway. State crews are excellent at getting slides cleared.