IMO, one of best sources for answers to a lot of the questions being asked here is Jeff Master’s weather blog, he's already got several pages of exceptionally well informed commentary on Wilma up at:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
I have a question--how in the world do these guys fly airplanes into the eye of a hurricane without getting shredded by the storm? It seems completely impossible.
I have to take off but will return later and will reply to any replies then.