True we had days to prepare but that didnt stop me from taking a shit when my roof started to shake and looked like it was going to come off as one of the storm's eyewall stalled right over me for like 2.5 hours. The longest 2.5 hours of my life. Thankfully, only the gutter tore off.
This was the mild one, Wilma..


good pictures! Even video footage can't capture the sheer power of a hurricane. The last way-too-many years, I've had to be at work during the storms. The last one, we all stood outside on a patio type area and watched the cars getting shoved around the parking lot, huge pieces of metal flying through the air, and the rain coming down completely horizontal. It was freakish. Green lightening, too...I heard that only happens during hurricanes.
What really sucked was that year we had the three back-to-back storms, and we ended up being without power for a total of a month and a half. I was about to commit hari-kari for an ice cube and a warm shower--and if I never see or eat another cereal bar/granola bar in this lifetime, it will still be too soon.
Hurricanes are definitely shit-your-pants storms.