Interesting. My dad said this to me when I was a young girl — if it passes anywhere south of Guadeloupe, we’re going to get hit.
I recall, in 1979 (I was just 13) when Hurricane David was scheduled to hit Ponce at a Cat 3 almost Cat 4 and it changed paths overnight, a direct hit on the Dominican Republic, where they had not been ready (unexpected) and about 2,000 Dominicans died that night. I was living in Rio Piedras at the time.
David then went on to a NW and ended up in Iceland as a sub-tropical depression of sorts and then its resting place came to be the Faroe Islands (north of Scotland), where it rained incessantly.
REZAMOS POR USTEDES!!!
Gracias!