Given where our house is, I've always had a very simple plan for when the hurricane comes: Be somewhere else when it gets there.
We did exactly that for Matthew in 2016; left on Tuesday once the track had it coming right up the coast, and grazing us that Friday. Matthew made a huge mess. Some wter
We were not there for Irma in 2017. I don't think there have been any bad enough to make us bail out since then until this week. Had we been there last weekend, we would have been gone by Monday at the latest.
Bottom line: When we bought the place in 2011, I told my wife: You understand that if/when the right storm comes along, this place will be GONE, right? Thing is the odds where we are on the NE FL coast are comparable to the NJ coast. Unlike southern FL, the Gulf coast, or parts of the Carolinas, direct hits are not that common there.