Hurricanes are deadly along the coast, not so deadly inland but they are absolutely devastating. When Ian hit us in Lakeland, roads were inaccessible for three days just clearing debris, I had no water for a week and no power for like a month. All in the Florida heat.
News stations do a horrible job of conveying the terrifying nature of wind gusts from a hurricane, they all focus on sustained winds, but the gusts are absolutely blood curdling. You can hear them from miles away, trees in the distance snapping and car alarms going off like a train in the distance as it gets closer and closer until its on top of you, and then after a minute the intensity drops considerably. This happens wave after wave until everything gets beat to hell.
This is supposed to be worse in general. Most people probably don't evacuate to save their life, they evacuate because anywhere the eye goes over will basically be a third world country for about a month.