My son is at Camp Lejeune, NC. I saw on their Facebook page, a lot of family members saying their Marines told them how crazy it was, etc. Being from Florida, Gavin told me "yeah, it got a little windy", lmao.
As for not evacuating... I can say living in Florida and dealing with hurricanes (or the threat of hurricanes) all the time... if we chose to evacuate for each one, we might as well just move during hurricane season.