I've not seen any pictures.....

...but this sounds absolutely devastating. It doesn't suprise me either, maybe it's just the more global news coverage we get nowadays but there seems to be increasing amounts of extreme weather.

One wonders at those who chose to stay with such dire weather warnings, 20% of the population. Surely if you could leave you would?

I have no idea what the bit at the bottom about Hurricane halls of fame refers to, anyone care to enlighten me, i presume it's reserved for particularly bad storms?