Let's look at the scenarios for evacuating the state.
If I leave now (without any vehicle to my name), I'd need to arrange for a car rental. Assuming any vehicles are even available to be driven out of the state, and they'd rent one to someone who is half-blind and doesn't have a driver's license, by the time I got into one, I'd be looking at several days of traffic jams and statewide gas shortages. The odds of being stuck on the road when the hurricane hits is too significant to ignore, and I'd rather be in a house than a car.
Then I would need a place to go. AirBNB, hotels, etc. are all expensive as hell, and probably saturated with evacuees.
Finally, I need to do all that while taking more time off of work than I am allowed to take every year, which calls two things into question:
1. How will I pay for the evacuation and stay?
2. Will I even have a job after all this? (I work remote.)
Evacuation sounds good in theory, but honestly, it's not so simple.
In the off-chance that the storm kills me: Pragmatically speaking, I'm basically a nobody who has done practically nothing noteworthy, so no one outside my immediate circle of friends will care (if they even know). I encourage everyone in the path of the storm, all of whom probably matter to the community much more than I ever will, to make their own decisions and not follow my example.
You've done at least one noteworthy thing: you posted the above comment. I, for one, noticed.
Good luck to you.
You'll be in my thoughts and prayers this week. Stay safe
[UPDATE:] Just saw this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-irma-evacuation-jet...
That being said, I fully expect it to make landfall near where I live at category 5 strength, despite the current projections of "merely" a category 4 when it reaches us.