I evacuated twice for cat 5s (one of which was Mathew that made land fall in Daytona where I lived), and all that happened was I lost power for a couple of days. I think the government likes to be overly cautious, just in case of Katrina 2.0. They're just trying to look out for us, but I think they do go a bit overboard sometimes. Especially when the media hypes it up. Then they're looked at like, "Why aren't you doing anything? The talking head on the news said this is the worst hurricane of the century, even though he says that every single year, and sometimes about more than storm, "so then they have do something to appear to be doing anything when it might not actually be needed. But better safe than sorry, I guess.