The high winds and rain bands of a hurricane last for days.
I was raised in tornado country, got to experience Loma Prieta up close and personal, and now live in the paths of hurricanes. I’m actually sort of inured to natural gang-banging, so if it scares somebody, they need to get out more.
Sorry; that's just not correct. It's very unusual for serious rain from a tropical system to extend over more than 24 hours. And rain bands cover a much wider area than the wind field. A typical tropical cyclone moves at 5 mph or faster, with strongest winds in the eyewall. Twelve hours or so is almost always the window in which damaging winds arrive, do their worst, and are gone. Blustery winds up to 40 mph in outlier rain bands are an occasional nuisance before and after this window, but are no danger to anyone in a secure building. Rising water is a different consideration, but I am addressing your comment.