Everyone should have a 3-day bag.If the weatherman says you have 30 minutes to get to a fall out shelter due to a hurricane, you don't want to wake up the next morning with just the clothes on your back. Then, again, that appears to be what most people are comfortable with. I started carrying a Go Bag (Get Outta Dodge Bag, Bug Out Bag) when I was single many years ago. I could leave town or stay over somewhere and still have everything I needed the next morning. It morphed into a three day bag by the time I found out about prepping.
My brother, somehow, was caught off-guard by hurricane Florence, which ran over top of him, just SW of Wilmington NC
He bugged out to my dad's place in Tampa, but had an issue with getting gas.
Why he didn't have 10-20 extra gallons on hand during hurricane season is beyond me.
I was amazed at how few Californians prepare for anything, during my first blackout experience there; they had a lot of power blackouts in the Bay area when I lived there, so it made no sense these people never even so much as had flashlights or batteries stocked up. I had a couple of car batteries and a small generator stored on my patio, so my neighbors would see my apartment lit up like normal; the local Sikhs would come over and use my propane grill to cook food for their kids during the long ones. They were great neighbors, patrolled the neighborhood wearing their swords and knives, the real ones not the ceremonial stuff; the crime rate was nearly nil, some small petty thefts now and then, which was excellent for a neighborhood surrounded by criminal illegal aliens, most of whom spent most of their time getting drunk on the curbs all day long.