...Bruce, does this help any 
Bruce is probably busy today building himself a nuclear fall out shelter. Maybe it can double as a hurricane shelter also. 
No actually, we have just received our fourth inundation of smoke from regional forest fires here in Cooper Country. Virtually the entire spine of the Cascades and Sierra Nevadas is on fire. Smoke is very heavy, and is blanketing the entire west coast. All the smoke is accompanied by extreme heat. Ironically, the smoke knocks the heat down by ten degrees. So, instead of 100, it's only 90 here in the PNW. But San Francisco hit 109 a few days ago, and now they have the smoke as well. 377 can give us an update on that.
Los Angeles is aflame, too, with the largest forest fires in its history now raging. Odd to think of National Forests in LA (Orange County, etc.), but it's true.
As for hurricanes and nuke shelters, I grew up on Long Island, NY, so I've seen a few Big Blows. I also followed Sandy closely via my mom, who weathered it out a few miles inland from the furthest reaches of the storm surge. I'm not a big fan of digging down into the ground to get safe from a hurricane, and if I was to prepare a site in a place like Florida, let's say Fort Lauderdale and Broward County - semi urban - I'd be building a re-enforced geodesic dome-like structure, protected by a sand berm and pilings put deeply into the ground, and not too close to the water. I would say anything closer than five-ten miles is too close. Also, I would never live in a large city on the ocean, like Miami. Just too risky.
As for us out west looking for clean air to breathe, I'm just coping with N-95 dust masks, a/c, and air purifiers. A larger solution requires governmental and community responses. I'm working on that, too, and writing up a storm about it at the Mountain News. I'm advocating for a cessation of all controlled burns, and the adoption of new land management practices, such as turning our National Forests into huge tree plantations with a network of fire breaks, roadways, and selective logging corridors to minimize the size of a blaze.
And of course, I am strongly advocating for a return to the Paris Climate Accords, and championing the regional creation of a climate change district of California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. If the feds won't do anything, then those of us in Cascadia must do what we can.
