That was hard to read. I can't imagine going through that.

We had one "be prepared to evacuate at any moment" call from the emergency notification center once and it was freaky.

A cabin 1/4 a mile away or so got struck by lightning and went up during one of the really dry, fire-riddled summers (aren't they all these days?) a few years ago. We smelled the smoke and heard the sirens. I was frantically packing shit up like a madman into the vehicles. Luckily the fire dept. kicked ass and put it out quickly. That was a giant wake up call.