I'd bike 50 miles up the gulf coast leaving at dawn and riding fast enough to get to the Canoe Club Restaurant while they were still serving breakfast.
See Places Together on one map.
What kind of place is this? 26.5109309, -82.1895790 Captiva Canoe Club 26.4845932, -82.0085138 Causeway Toll Plaza 26.5506700, -82.1986771 Wyatt Software Customer Conference
There were no bikes allowed on the Sanibel causeway so I'd stand at the toll booth and hitch a ride in a pickup after tossing my bike in back.
Newscasters explain the ways of the storm surge as water leaves and then returns in excess. noaa 
Family on Gulf Shore Blvd North would be my starting point and then my return destination.
My interests returned to the south gulf coast as Hurricane Irma made landfall on Sunday Sept, 10, 2017. I knew all the roads they mentioned on the streaming local television feed.