We live just west of you. No danger this time, but we had to evacuate several years ago. I was struck by how many people packed up their televisions. At the time you could buy a new TV for about 200 bucks, but they'd lug those big suckers out to the car and fill up the whole back seat, leaving clothing, mementoes and other valuables and irreplaceables behind.
Personally, I rode my bike across the street and chined it to a pipe in the school gym.