A hurricane is a hurricane no matter what category it is!! Either it did not affect you directly or you are lucky enough to live in a house that is well built, but to say a Cat 1 or Cat 2 is a cakewalk is horrible! Lives are still disrupted and people are killed.

We felt fortunate when Katrina dipped south after coming a shore b/c until she did that it looked like our house would be take a direct it, Andrew 13yrs ago was bad enough and we were on the north eyewall for that one. Unfortunately Miami got hit from corner to corner 13yrs & 1 day after Andrew. A lot of people thought, "its just a Cat 1", but after this I bet more people take it seriously.