> My personal rule to consider evacuating is a cat 4+ As you know well having lived through Hugo, the S/S category pertains to the wind speed. However, it's th

> My personal rule to consider evacuating is a cat 4+ As you know well having lived through Hugo, the S/S category pertains to the wind speed. However, it's the flooding and storm surge, not the wind, that are by far the most deadly features of a hurricane. I'd be much more wary of a big, slow moving cat 2 arriving right at high tide and full moon than I would be a small, fast moving cat 4 arriving at low tide and a new moon, unless I have some particular reason to fear the wind and not the water (eg I'm in a mobile home on high ground). Source: lived through or evacuated for multiple hurricanes.