[Deschodt]

On the one hand, taking a Cat 4 or 5 in the face is no fun. On the other, the news media fearmongers are doing too good a job at times. I've had many pleasant dreams of Jim Cantori getting smacked in the face hard by a flying freeway sign.. I've lived through many hurricanes and unless you were about to eat a Cat4's direct hit and live in a trailer park, it was wind and rain and then fun in flooded streets and picking up tree branches... And empty water bottle aisles at Publix ! I don't miss it, I traded for earthquakes which are worse in a way and better in others (surprise, it's a quake!!! oh it's over)

If you're gonna live in FL or the carolinas I recommend you buy a house at some elevation from the water, made of cinderblocks, and buy a generator... Then it's not really a big deal unless you're on the water in the path of a big one. Good luck to you all !!