I choose to not leave the house, due to my grandmother’s vast medical needs at this point in her life, Darin. I am her chosen/legal Designated Health Care Surrogate, as well as her Power of Attorney, and I have acted in such capacity ever since leaving Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. If I were not doing this for her, I believe I would be back in the midst of each hurricane to make landfall within the SE, just as I was for over a decade.
On the waves and surges, they are always specific to locale (some will get them, others will not). The storm currently brewing out in the Atlantic has my attention at this point, and hopefully we do not have to evacuate; it will be difficult for us personally, if so.