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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question from somebody who hasn't had to evacuate - when do you decide to go? My impulse would be to just leave now if I was anywhere near, but I can understand it requires a place to stay, missing work, etc. Do you wait for the order? or go sooner if you can?[/quote]
I am pp who has been through it three times. We have a system that warns us to prepare to evacuate, and we all are watching location, wind speed/direction, and of course literally watching, communicating with neighbors, and paying attention to our guts. I want to be out before the order so that there is no chance of being stuck in gridlock.

Coordinating with neighbors is a must. We have some teens on the block that aren’t old enough to drive. There are plans A, B, and C for them to get out. We all have keys or codes for multiple neighbors and we know who has which pets. We have a couple of elderly neighbors that are pretty fit but we have designated people to make sure they are ok and help them if needed. We let each other know when we’re going out of town, etc. [/quote]

Curious, PP: Why do you keep living in such a fire-prone area? Why not move away to a safer place? [/quote]

What place is safe? People live in Tornado Alley, in hurricane zones, in tsunami risk zones, beside volcanoes, in earthquake risk zones, in flood zones, in wildfire and mudslide risk zones, in avalanche zones and in terrorism/war target/crime zones.[/quote]

DMV![/quote]

DMV is probably at highest risk for catastrophic man-made attack. Just sayin’[/quote]
 
I'll take my chances.  I'll continue to vacation to SFL, out west, etc., but I ain't moving.  Anyways back to watching Anderson Cooper reporting directly infront of a burning hous.[/quote]

I heard a news report about residents of Asheville, NC  who moved there based on their best analysis of being safe from climate change.

I live northern CA and every fire season want to leave. My husband and kids don’t want to and it’s hard to know where we’d go. The biggest earthquake I’ve experienced was actually when we lived in DC. My understanding is that the Midwest had massive insurance loss / insurance concerns from windstorms. With drought, blizzards, wind, hurricanes, tornados, fires, water shortages etc it’s hard to find a place that you could reasonably expect to be safe from risk.[/quote]

I have a dear personal friend who was planning to close on a house in Asheville one week after the hurricane swept through.

They were moving from Tampa to avoid the hurricanes and weather of recent years.

I think we have all been trained to focus on climate change not "global warming" because the warming confused people (ie colder weather sometimes, as extremes change etc) but that dropped the GLOBAL part from the description.[/quote]

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