I agree
It's always best to stay put where all your supplies are UNTIL something like this heads your way
We are fortunate enough to have a travel trailer with generator and surplus fuel parked 15 miles from our house. It's loaded with survival food packs, ammo, medical etc.
We have a relative 4hrs away that lives on top a mountain in New Mexico. He has always been off the grid. Our goal would be get there as fast as possible. Plan B is a spot at a lake 1 hr away.
You have got to be prepared and we have had plenty of time to do so.During covid lock down I studied and got a hamm radio license ( don't need it in an emergency) got a couple of radios tuned them to several repeaters so if the comm go down I can still communicate with that set of people - some of them can talk all over the World 🌎
Also have GMRS radios for vehicle to vehicle.

Hope it never comes to this but as a baby boomer Eagle scout with a dad that was a gunsmith -an Olympic silver medalist gunsmith
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You are gonna be one of the American Heroes who's out there helpin' People like all the other "preppers" who are out there right now helpin' Hurricane Helene victims (no one makes fun of Preppers now do they?) and you'll be super effective at it if it ever comes to that, because you will be self-sufficient, because you already planned ahead and have skills...if it comes to that in your part of the country.

So may people are still unprepared for emergencies, but THANK GOD that situation has improved over the past decade when earlier virtually no one even had spare food in their pantry let alone bugout or survival gear. Now I notice how many 4x4s have tents ready to go on their roofracks, with fuel cans & tools just driving to town. That's a Beautiful Sight.

Who's saving lives in the wake of Hurricane Helene along with Military and First Responders? PREPPERS. Including Cajun Navy.

Prepping's even in style, now.

What I was sayin' too is that when this kind of danger is incoming, like floods or wildfires, be ready and prepared to bug out just like you are sayin'. Don't wait 'till the last minute to grab emergency bugout supplies and precious momentos, because one might not have time to grab things otherwise and still live.

Sometimes people die in wildfires that consume their home cuz they wait too long trying to gather things as the fire bears down, and one breath of that hot air in front of the fire can be lethal.
Same with floods, when that water is rising or the warning goes out, be ready to get to higher ground and move like the wind, don't lollygag.

Homes can be rebuilt. Property can be replaced. Lives can't - so everyone be prepared to race to safety and that means preparing in advance.