Last year, on three ocassions, we packed up our speakers and went to my oldest Daughters house(which we thought may have been stronger than ours, it wasen't!)

While we were there for three hurricanes which had winds only as high as 114MPH, we had what could almost be called a near-month-long hurricane party. Had any of those storms even began to approach cat 3 level in our area, we had plans in effect to evacuate in the proper direction once that was determined. If yer gonna party; pick yer storm guests.

We fortunately, had the funds available for a hasty retreat.