Are you right on the coast? I have vague memories of Alicia coming to Houston when I was very little, and our neighbor had a tree through her house- but the rest of us were pretty unscathed. So all the time I lived there, I never got real worried.
Living in Austin, I will probably inherit some evacuees if it comes to that. I was in Houston when Rita came and we left that afternoon and got to Austin without any of the trouble many people had. But when we got to Austin, people were running around buying up water and panicking worse than Houstonians lol.
I think once you have been through a few, it is hard to get worked up. Katrina was certainly a reminder though that sometimes there can be massive devastation on coastal towns (and Rita did its damage too, though less publicized.)
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