Living in Florida and having gone through 28 years of these alerts and seasons and having been in about 7 Tropical Storms and 2 maybe 3 hurricanes at the most I can tell you South Florida is LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG overdue. So is the West coast ala Naples/Ft.Myers. They say Marco Island hasn't been hit because of an Indian prayer that was said years and years ago to protect it. Oddly enough I spoke to an insurance guy the other day and he told me the old folks are praying for a category 3 or 4 to hit the island because they want to collect on the insurance and the city planners want to start from scratch since the Island was built backwards and all wrong.
Methinks there will not be much left of land or anything else after a Cat 4 on Marco. A 5 would destroy and sink it.I was on the fringes of Andrew. Winds got to 110 mph in my front yard sustained for about 45 mins then down to 90 mph for the rest of the night. It was a ride for sure. But little did we know what was going on 30 miles south of us.Amazing days those were. I still say a Hurricane is one of the most intense and beautiful things to witness on this Earth.
I agree that hurricanes are awesome to behold. Part of the intrigue is their autonomy --- nature's way of giving us something that none of us can really do anything about.