If by "manpower" you mean manpower to deploy tarps and pallets, then yes.
I don't think even that even the best analysists have a confident estimate of what peak will be like. While it's a very poor gauge of what's to comes I never saw the parking lots at Walmart. Ollie's and Rural King as full for the first Saturday in October as I saw them then. In these parts people spend their summers getting ready for winter. Filling up the freezers and canning jars, getting their heating fuel prepaid making repairs to the house.....Christmas gets what money is left over. And by the looks of things around these parts there might not be a great deal of it.