We don't get real hurricanes either. Or real bad floods... lots of rivers, but they flow through narrow places... Too many hills I guess. I love big weather and I live in a land that just doesn't have any.
We're a little inland (Richmond). But we can get some nasty wind and rain. When Fran came through we lost lots of branches and just about the whole town was out of power for more than a day (we got ours back after 36 hours).
My wife, her sister and husband and I were working the "Faberge" ball which was THE social event of the year. We went to the YMCA to get dressed in our formal attire.
Our main fear from huricanes at my house is that one of the dozen oak trees in our yard will fall. Our neighbors have lost two, and we've already taken out the six most dangerous ones.