When Tampa issued a mandatory evacuation on Monday, Bailey Shatney, 25, and her husband Cody Uttermohlen, 26, knew they had to get out. During 2004’s Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, Shatney and her mother fled to a shelter in the middle of the storm after a tornado approached their house. She and Uttermohlen knew they didn’t want their 20-month-old son, Zeke, to have the same experience. With just a half tank of gas—and glad to even have that much, in an area where gas was scarce and there were no public transportation options—they made their way to Uttermohlen’s parents’ house in Port Charlotte, Fla.
