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Originally Posted by The North One
Florida gets kicked in the balls every other year by a hurricane yet people still live and move there. Don't see an impact other than the usual one.
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Hmm, there’s hurricanes, and then there’s
hurricanes.
Most hurricanes between Categories 1-3 are glorified thunderstorms overly hyped by the media that will knock your power out for a few days. But a major destructive hurricane impacting Florida is actually a quite rare event, and would likely have more serious repercussions.
Last time Southwest Florida had a real storm surge was 1960 when Collier County had a population of 15,753, Lee County had 54,539, and Charlotte County had 12,594.
As of 2020 those numbers are respectively 375,752, 750,822, 186,847.