3 or 4 years ago Irene ran my son, then 15, out of the Outer Banks
of N. Carolina. We left two days ahead of it but should have left
a day earlier.
Traffic was o.k. but we got torrential rains driven ahead of the
storm and had to find a motel as it rained so hard I couldn't
see to even drive. Lucky the exit was right there in front of me.
We found a pizza place still open a block away and ate and got
a good nights rest and carried on home a day later.
I went through a tropical storm with 40 m.p.h. sustained winds
and 60 m.p.h. gusts in a beach house on stilts.
Scared poop out of us.
Those and 2 minor earthquakes. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww