My mom and dad live in southern Virginia which is also in the red zone 10" to 15" of rain is expected. I just got off the phone with them and we went through the power outage / storm damage check list. Their house sits up on a hill and I cut down all the trees within falling distance of the house so I don't expect flooding or downed trees to be an issue but power outage is a very real possibility.
I'm thinking of you all over there and your families that live in the targeted areas Having had that (tiny by comparison) hurricane here last year, I can appreciate how scary this is.
I feel the same way. we have hurricanes here, lose our power and a couple of trees. We don't flood either, high elevation (though downtown does). This one has the potential to be very, very bad.