The above is false. Cat 5s in the Atlantic happen a lot more often than once in a hundred years.
Research involving digging in marshes, and tree Rings, indicate that from approximately 3,000 to 1,000 years ago, three times more hurricanes hit the Gulf Coast per year than the average per year for the last 100 years.
What exactly was the purpose of those dark forces hitting a very thinly populated gulf coast severely for those 2,000 years and then slacking off for the next 1,000 years?
The other thing I've noticed is when you have an unusually low number of various disasters (For example, large earthquake activity so far this year has been close to only 1/3rd of normal) you don't see people running around mentioning it or referencing it to religion or anything.
People are just terrified that bad stuff can happen for no particular human-related or deity-related reason. And also people got used to unusually low hurricane activity (1970-1994) as "normal."
Thank you for the perspective. People sometimes have a tough time with historical perspective and our lack of long term data.