Having been through many hurricanes I have to remind people that hurricane conditions occur in a much wider area than just near the eye! The eye is what is being tracked, but the hurricane is many miles wide and NOT just the area near the eye is dangerous!
“Having been through many hurricanes I have to remind people that hurricane conditions occur in a much wider area than just near the eye! The eye is what is being tracked, but the hurricane is many miles wide and NOT just the area near the eye is dangerous!”
I second that emotion! Last year San Juan, where I live, was “skirted” by Hurricane Irma (eyewall about 35 miles north of us), and we still had serious, enormous damage, all over the island which is the size of Connecticut. When María hit two weeks later, we barely had begun to recover.
I say it again, hurricanes are dangerous well beyond their eyewalls. In the mainland you have the ability to flee by land. Do it if your property is near a flood zone and/or if it’s not built to withstand 100+ MPH winds for hours and hours.
Amen to your comment.