Remember that a base camp doesn’t have to be complex and you don’t need a tone of resources to make it work. You need good people and proper survival knowledge.
When a natural disaster occurs, bugging out may be the only logical and proper decision you can make since it is the only thing that can help you survive.
Hanna wasn’t much of a hurricane, as hurricanes go. I’ve lived through worse. We never really know how bad a hurricane is going to be until it makes landfall.
A long-distance bug out plan requires preparations and there are many things you need to cover. Traveling over a long distance during a crisis delivers many unknown factors.
Survival boils down to making the right decisions and doing the right things, with a little bit of random chance and a lot of positive attitude thrown in.