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Originally Posted by pavulon

Maybe people should be smarter than to have their stuff sitting in a place where hurricanes can ruin it. Those storms' capacity to wreck everything in their path hasn't been any mystery or surprise for how many decades now?

I was wondering about all of the vehicles. I guess if you were in a 3-4 car family (husband, wife, a kid or two, maybe a truck/toy) and you were evacuating, you'd probably not want to try to drive all of them out for some reason.

And most of the time, a hurricane doesn't cause mass flooding/destruction. That kind of flooding and destruction may only happen every 20-50 years depending on where you are. We lived in our old home for ~18 years. In the time that we lived there, we never had water intrusion into the house. It got to the porch a couple of times, but would have still needed to rise at least 6 inches to get into the house. In the time that we lived there ('97-'14) there were several tropical storms and a couple/few hurricanes, and lots of crazy flooding in/around Houston.

The home did get flooded in '83 from Hurricane Alicia.

You never know what's going to happen until after it happens with mother nature. She's as or more fickle than most other women.