Wow, good forward-thinking. I have no personal experience with hurricanes or evacuating, but I was a Disaster Services instructor for the American Red Cross back in the BK (before kids) century. I can list a few things the ARC used to recommend. Anyone living in fire, earthquake, and tornado zones should also make plans. (Or just move here to the Michigan lake shore, where the worst you can expect is to wait out a blizzard while sipping hot chocolate by the fire!)

(DISCLAIMER: my information is years out of date, and you should double-check everything with your local agencies.)

1. Shelters don’t take animals, so you need to make private arrangements for a place to land and a way to get there. Think about how far south you are, and how far you’ll have to drive to clear the evac zone. Do you have a vehicle large enough for cages and supplies? If you’re counting on a helper driver, be sure to have a meet-up location, and have back-up plans in case you or your helper are away from home. You’ll need to make your own decision to evacuate, as well, so don’t wait for the order to be given. Gasoline is your lifeline, so keep your tank full, and consider having a spare gas can available. As we learned in Katrina, sometimes the evacuation order comes too late, and the second-worst case scenario is that you’ll be forced to choose between getting yourself to safety and riding it out with the animals. Remember that if the power goes out ahead of the stom, you might not be able to get gas and you could be without a way to know how bad the storm is getting or where/when it’s going to land. Cell phones are great as long as you can charge them, and battery-operated radios work only as long as you don’t run out of batteries.
2. When you make up your emergency kit (you do have one, right?) with stuff like flashlights, medications, toiletries, first aid, food and can opener, water, radio, and cash (ATMs need electricity), also make up a bunny kit. This may be harder since their food has to be kept fresher than ours; so you may need to rotate their food stock more frequently. Include water, medicines, litter, grooming supplies, etc., and have it in a weather-proof container for easy grab-n-go. Don’t forget to have a container for your photos and documents, too.
3. From my cross-country move experience and the moving stories shared on this site, bunnies seem to be somewhat complacent car travelers. Your biggest concern may be how to set up at your evac camp. Recreating their normal set-up as closely as convenient may be a way to start: whoever lives together at home should live together in your camp, if you have portable cages big enough. If not, be sure to set the bonded buns next to each other, so they can be comforted by each other’s sight and smell. Remember that the weather can be brutally hot during hurricane season, so it would be best to find a location where you can keep the buns in air conditioning. Don’t count on using hotels, even for the evac trip, as they could be full, closed, out of power, or fussy about animals.
4. I can’t stress enough how important it will be to get out early and know where you’ll be going. If your home is destroyed, you could be in transition for a significant length of time. Have a two week supply on hand of the hard to find bun supplies. You should be able to restock at your new location.
5. So, all this planning is contingent upon having a place to go. Considering how hard it can be just to find a reliable pet sitter, you’re going to have to have some agreements in place with out-of-state friends and relatives. (Remember to have a back-up, if possible, in case the first host is unavailable.)

Maybe we should set up our own network of evac locations here at this website. Hmmm…

Hope this helps to get you started.

Thank yoy! This is good info for me to know too. I’m also a Floridian.

A hint I’ve heard is to write your phone number in their ears in permanent marker-that way if you are seperated then someone can contact you. Or you could probably have doggie tags made up with your contact info and put them on collars-then if you have to evacuate, put the collars on the bunnies.

Couldn’t you also get them microchips?

Ugggghhh I can’t believe it. Almost hurricane season again already. We’ve had unnaturally good luck with avoiding hurricanes up here in the panhandle for the past few years, so that probably means we’re due for one.

We always go to Atlanta Georgia to stay with my relatives. I’ve never evacuated with Little-Bit before (or been on a trip with her for that matter!) but I always evacuated Binkles with me and will do the same with Little-Bit. It really, really sucks because you suddenly just have to whisk them away for a 6-hour car ride and then cage them for a few days. 😐 I always had run-around-on-the-bed time with Binkles because she was really good about not jumping off unfamiliar beds, and from my experience with Bit she is the same, so hopefully I can do this with her too.