Hurricanes can do an incredible amount of damage due to the wind speed. Roofs can be blown off, trees can be toppled over, and the amount of destruction can be devastating. On top of that you have torrential rain and flooding. I've been through a few hurricanes here, but by the time they reached us the wind speed had died down so we didn't have any damage to our house, and we're not in a flood prone area so we've been lucky.