they often have bathrooms without windows. if you have such, you have a safe place specially when on the 2nd floor.
your quick to prepare emergency move would be throw a mattress in for seating comfort, add the drinking watre buckets, also some with water for your toilet, flashlightand spare batteries, your smartphone and the anyways hopefully already purchased foods that do not need refrigeration. and you have a place to sit out what ever the construction of your building can stand against. for Punta Cana a modern appartment building will stand what is prognosted for this area, which will be Tropical Storm Force winds now on the upper scale.
we are now just 35 kilometers away from the Huriicane Windforce line, by actual forces and trackings.
that can of course shift in one direction or also that"other" direction.
such building will not collapse under low scale hurricane winds.
we have here also the Master Bathroom as the emergency Plan Room.
2 floor concrete building with cement roof including steel skeleton in it.
that bathroom has no windows.
it has a opening in the 10ft high ceiling, the opening is small, no dangers from there. it will allow water to be pressed in, thats incomfy but not dangerous. that room would be our last stronghold in case the windows around the place would burst.
we alsohave the master bedroom with just a small balcony door on the backside, where a neighbour 2 floor building is very close along there. i am sure that from teher will not be any danger even under hurricane force winds, so that is a big comfy room with bed and everythin to stay comfy for what ever time necessary.
but the bathroom there is the Plan B emergency solution to hopp in.
Mike
When you retreat to the "safe room", don't forget the rum, (add coke, if so inclined), Limon if you have one, and whatever ice might be left... it won't last, so might as well enjoy it.