Just a personal story from Hurricane Gloria many years ago—when I lived in southern Maine.
You know why I remember it—it was just a Cat 1 storm but the eye went right over my house. After the eye hit some big gusts of wind took out the three biggest trees in my yard.
One monster tree blocked the driveway. The other two took out the utility connection to the house and then crashed on the house.
I had no power for ten days—and that was a lousy cat 1.
During hurricane Allison that ended up over Houston in 1989, during a lull in the winds, I climbed up on our roof to put some plastic over an area that had lost shingles. The wind had been blowing up to 60 mph for hours, but suddenly it stopped and there was clear blue sky. As suddenly as the wind stopped, it began blowing again in the opposite direction while I was still on the roof. I had to spread eagle and execute a sliding decent towards my ladder to keep from breaking my neck. I did get safely down, but I had truly just experienced the ‘eye of the storm’.
Hurricane Ike hit here in 2008 we had damage which thank God was only a big oak tree falling in the back yard.....but after that we got a generator. We have lost power too many times during storms and swore never again would we swelter. It’s hotter than blazes down here but after a hurricane it seems to be twice as hot and humid.......;)