Getting out all the stuff I had just gotten put back up from Slow Flo... nothing spectacular and nothing different than every ice storm we have. Basics are what carry the day.
But, I find I've got a much more receptive family this time. They laughed at me during Matthew until they discovered " Dad has toilet paper" and we have none, then it was all "please"...
I asked them all to pack a bag in preparation for if we have to move during Flo, before it even hit. No drama, just pack a bag and put it by the door. I repeated my request nicely over the next two days. When the water started rising, they went into a panic mode with some tears.
After we calmly relocated to a hotel, I gently explained that being prepared is what buys you time and options. If you have something ready, you get to walk out of the house into a dry car and drive to where you've chosen to relocate. If you don't take basic preparations, you have to swim out of your house and walk to whatever foxhole you can reach, and endure. And, if you don't have to use your preps, so much the better but nothing lost.
I think some life lessons were learned. I've lived a life at the "sharp end of the stick" and have talked to them at length, but nothing teaches better than a personal experience.
Not a "prepper", but not a willing cooperative victim of my own stupidity and laziness !