thank you Petunia. Yeah... there was a few stories like that, ppl trapped in their homes crushed by trees.. I can NOT begin to think of that! wow. I do recall with Andrew... "under" the mattress we'd angled off the bed and on top of a flight case. and how just after getting under that, the roof/ceiling fell in .... and how I must have passed out ? and when I woke, I was wet .. and the carpet was water saturated and I didn't know if I was going to drown, being trapped, or just blown away... I couldn't feel anything below the waist then... until the mattress was lifted off me... ugh, no, this house stuck ... good... but then, it wasn't a "5" like Andrew.

That they play with the real "facts" of strengths of these storms... because they don't want a panic evacuation... I doubt any of us will know when another 4 or 5 does come... they won't tell us.