All due respect, but Hurricane David was a category 1 when off the coast of Brevard County in 1979.
Wunderground has it as a Cat 2 - it may be that you felt Cat 1 conditions with it just off the coast.
I'm in Brevard county and have a massive construction project going on in Palm Bay south of Melbourne. Last orders I received at 3:30 this afternoon were to spend tomorrow securing the site. This means bringing all the materials inside (the stuff that will fly). Is this thing most likely to be just a storm and am I wasting my time now? I Just turned the TV on and lo and behold it's the dead girl story as usual...