Even from way up here in the NW I have a funny hurricane story: A group of our family decided to go to New Orleans for a little trip (driving from Dallas), in August of all times to go to N.O.
It turns out that the day we arrive in Baton Rouge a hurricane passes through -- with the winds all pretty much spent by then just this unbelievable torrential downpour. It was so humid that the towels in the hotel we stayed in were damp from it and wouldn't dry out.
We spent the night in Baton Rouge and drove on to New Orleans the next morning. We were riding along looking at the bayous from the freeway when all of a sudden out of the heat ducts in the car this really dense fog starts pouring out! In about 10 seconds the entire inside of the car was completely pea-soup fogged in and we couldn't see anything. All the women were yelling and screaming and Fred (my brother-in-law who was driving) rolls down the window and sticks his head out to see!
All the while the fog keeps pouring out of the car's heat ducts. After about 10 minutes of sheer chaos Fred realizes that he has the A/C on in the car, and the cold air from the A/C is mixing with the intense humidity from the just-passed hurricane to create the mother of all fogs inside our car!
Had to be a hilarious sight to anyone passing us (the sounds of yelling and screaming coming from the car were pretty funny too).
We get to New Orleans in one piece and it turns out to be the most pleasant weather imaginable for early August: Low 70's temperatures and a high cloud cover that keeps the sun in check while not making it too dark.
We celebrated by drinking many [many] Hurricanes at Pat O'Brien's that evening.
It is pretty clear that you have never lived in the southeast! This would happen frequently hereabouts.
The Jarrel tornado in 1997 passed about 5 miles from my house... that was an F5 tornado that destroyed the town of Jarrell, TX. After that it picked up and continued travelling southwest, dropping down here and there. It whacked an Albertson's grocery store in Cedar Park, about 5 miles away from our house. I wasn't home at the time, my employer was keeping everyone captive in the basement (they wouldn't let us out while the tornado warning was on, I'm not kidding.)