Please do.
I'd like to know how you make it.
You have two weeks to get home, so I'm hoping most recovery efforts will be over. I think you'll be fine taking the same route home.
Most likely, the actual recovery work won't even have started in two weeks. Right now, there are 7 fatalities in NC and authorities are heavily involved in rescue activities. SC is just beginning to get the brunt of the storm and heavy rains will continue in both states through the weekend creating life-threatening flooding situations even several days after the rains have passed.
One of my squads rescued an elderly man from his collapsed home more than
two weeks after Hurricane Andrew...and he lived in a pretty densely-populated suburban area. His comment:
"I just kept prayin', but I knew y'all would come for me!"
If you haven't been involved in a hurricane recovery operation, you just have no idea of the scope and complexity of it. Once the rescue efforts are completed, officials will begin the long process of damage assessment. It remains to be seen how much infrastructure damage has been done, but there will probably be some roads and bridges washed out, and other arteries may be limited to emergency traffic only. After Andrew here in Miami, we had one of our main N-S arteries closed for emergency traffic only for more than a month to expedite getting supplies and military units into the area more quickly.
Another problem is damage to first responder systems themselves. In Andrew, we lost more than 1/3 of our police vehicle fleet, and fire suffered similar losses. Communications were badly affected, there was no power in some areas for months, and everything was 10x more difficult than it had been pre-storm. Fortunately, the criminals (most of them) went on vacation and the citizenry jumped into the volunteer effort in an amazing way, so we got through it.