Instead, I will be putting hurricane shutters up. During Hurricane Helene I did not, because the storm track converged in the models more than a hundred miles away. It got windier here than we thought, but we never regretted that decision. Now it is the weekend, I ended my travel plans, and the weather is relatively good. Given that some models have this as a category 4 and potentially a direct hit, we will put them up. There is too much to potentially regret with this forecast, and I tend to measure these decisions in terms of minimizing potential regret (will I regret spending $500 dollars to evacuate more than being in a post-apocalyptic nightmare with no power, no water, and potentially no shelter? - probably not). It is annoying if we live in a cave over the next few days and the storm doesn't materialize, but at least I won't be scrambling at the last minute.

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