Robert Cringely can always be relied upon to find the interesting techie aspect to any oncoming natural disaster, and make us wish we were in his shoes. In
A Hurricane Named Sinatra he describes what he's taking during his evacuation from hurricane Frances he includes:
Finally, I have on my wrist a watch with a built-in 256 megabyte USB flash drive holding all my e-mail since 1993, everything I have written since the late 1980s, and a bootable Linux partition.