trying to reason with hurricane season

Pardon me for obsessing over hurricane season but it ain't over yet. This week the St. Petersburg Times published a graphical prediction of what a Category 4 hurricane could do if it came up out of the Gulf and used Tampa Bay as the on-ramp for the rest of the state. (Click to enlarge.) With the exception of Highway 19's bridge over the Anclote River, north of Tarpon Springs, our bridge routes will be out of commission and, if the bridge over the Anclote River fails, our peninsula will become two islands (the white zones in the map). I could launch a boat from our front yard, but my cousin's house, a couple of blocks to the east and down-slope, will almost surely be flooded.