Actually Brevard County was hit hard from 4 hurricanes in 2004.....
......not direct hits like Dorian might be......but the hurricanes traveled up the state to Brevard and we had plenty of blue tarp homes and beach destruction to prove it!
In 1979 Category 1 Hurricane David parked itself off Cocoa Braxh and churned for a few days.....spawning tornadoes
Living in Merritt Island at that time and the mandatory evacuations issued by the County from at least 2 of those prompted Mrs Prov1322 to want to move to GreenAcres.
I built old-school plywood storm "shutters" which are still in use today by the current owners but not fun to put up.