Yesterday morning, Roker chided a resident of New York for securing their outdoor furniture outside rather than taking it in. He said something about it becoming a potentially life-threatening missile.
Apparently, a borderline Category 1 hurricane has winds straight out of the tornado from The Wizard of Oz.
I made a similar comment to my wife. I tied down the trash cans and made sure some lumber for home repairs was on the deck she wanted me to store everything. I told her it is a hurricane not a tornado. At cat 2 it is not going to pickup the lawnmower and throw it at the neighbors. Trees fall because generally the soil is saturated to the point the roots give way in the wind. Some do snap of course. But even than they just fall. Tornados frighten me more than hurricanes.