Things I Actually Needed During A Hurricane Evacuation
7 min readSep 3, 2021
Okay but how do you really “prepare for the worst”?
File “hasty hurricane evacuation” under list of experiences I didn’t think I’d have in 2021 but here we are. On August 28th at 8:20am, after spending a week preparing to shelter in place from Hurricane Ida, I left New Orleans with a friend and her two dogs and hit the road in search of safer ground. I’d never evacuated…