"I used to live in Louisiana and always wanted to experience a hurricane."
Don't know how bad you had it when you experienced Andrew. But I find experiencing the actual hurricane totally scary. The wind howling so loud you can hear almost nothing else, except that is, for the sounds of breaking glass, debris hitting the house, and then there's that sound of your house "moaning" under the force of the winds. THEN, afterwards, there's no power for days and days. Miserably high, muggy heat. No A/C, no showers, no toilets you can flush. Not to mention the cleaning up you have to... To me, the aftermath is as miserable as the hurricane is scary.
I spent two full days with a chain saw cleaning up the limbs in my back yard. By "limbs" I mean "huge trunks of trees big enough to be trees all by themselves."
The one blessing is that I never lost power for more than 10 minutes. That would have been a nightmare.