I think I mentioned once that we used to live in Louisiana.  The storms from a week or so ago reminded me of our experiences with "real" storms.
Now I know the thought of a tornado is scary, especially when you're not sure exactly where the darn thing is. But, a hurricane will make you think that a tornado storm is chicken feed.
A tornado has a small footprint and the odds of it hitting you are fairly slim. I'm not saying that it's a storm that you should ignore, it's just that Katrina, Gustaf, Rita and the other named storms have a footprint that is hundreds of miles wide, with the same power a tornado has, only for hundreds of miles.
My wife, and our two dogs were living on 40 acres that were set up as a tree farm for paper mills. The crop was about 8 years-old and would be ready for cutting in a year or two; decent money. Then we got word that Katrina was coming! That darn female storm first hit our house at 7am Monday morning. It had tornado power from 7am until 1pm then heavy, hard rain for 6 or 7 hours more. I had to nail 2x4’s across our windows from the inside. One hundred and fifteen mile per hour wind blowing against your windows and sliding glass doors tends to make you get out your hammer nails and plywood, oh yeah, and a prayer or seven.
When things calmed down we had water flowing into the house from the roof in abut 6 places. Two 80 or 90 year old cedar trees next to the house had snapped off and some of the branches had torn a lot of the roofing off. Then I got a look at the tree crop! Instead of 38 acres of 40 foot tall trees, we had 38 acres of 2 to 4 foot stumps. They had almost all snapped off and were laying all in the same direction, kind of like when you mow hay. I walked out to the road and all I could see was trees across the road. Some of those trees were well over a hundred years old, and between three and six feet thick.
Now the road we lived on was just less than a mile long, quiet and out in the country. There were about eight families on that road. Everyone was checking on their neighbors and taking care of their own, and the next morning at sunrise everyone was out with chainsaws clearing the road so we could get out to the main road, and get into town for the things that were needed. We had no electric and no city water, no TV (I was already missing the The Price is Right). It took every family two days to get the road cleared.
Somehow our house had the only phone service on the road ,so we had visitors letting friends and family know how they were. Then the price of pulp wood went through the floor, because  there was so much of it. The mills couldn't handle the supply available.
Needless to say we lived through it, but my wife had had enough after four  hurricanes in five years, so here we are.
I guess the point here is that, you can run, but you can't hide. There's always something that can endanger you. Storms, drought, and most often people.
So, you just have to deal with the problems as they arise, and prepare to respond instantly. Be like Isaac Newton. He proved that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Be not afraid!