Sometimes you float out your second story window clinging to a mattress and go sailing across the sound into the top of a tree. Not a place to be, a Category 5, unless you’re in a fortified structure designed to withstand it that will not flood.
“...unless you’re in a fortified structure designed to withstand it that will not flood.”
Not that I’d necessarily wanna do it but I’ve wondered how well a person could ride out a hurricane in a place like Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas.
That fort has been around since before the Civil War and still seems to be structurally sound.