We have experienced a few hurricanes and warnings over the past couple months on the east coast. Following the storm on the weather channel and local channels can become quite trying. In our home, those channels are on for days before watching, tracking, and re-watching all of the scenarios and each step the storm takes. Since Sandy wiped out the entire first floor of our home and it took 4 months before we were able to move back into it, I always want to be prepared . My husband has decided that being prepared is always the number one decision and his theory, one I gave up arguing over, is if we do not have to be in the house when it hits then we will not be. Why put ourselves through the turmoil and then chancing being unable to leave and/or not finding anywhere to stay? Part of my prep begins when there is a storm like the most recent, Hurricane Matthew, is to make hotel reservations far enough away to beat all the weather if possible. I cannot find a reason that makes sense to stay when we don’t know if may be full of destruction and we pack up valuables and essentials and leave. Reality, we can replace the house, and our “stuff.” Loosing all of our “stuff” the last time, although devastating, brought our health and life itself into perspective. Maybe you think it is a bit silly, maybe you agree, but whatever it is, better safe than sorry. 
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