Yes, plan for a real hurricane. It could happen. But most likely it won't where we are, so keep your head on. The tornado freakout is especially silly. Eddies in hurricanes can form and we call them tornadoes, but they're not like the tornadoes that form from a legitimate super-cell thunderstorm with cloud-tops in the stratosphere. Hurricane tornadoes are typically just small, brief, cat 1 funnel winds, 75 to 95 mph. Basically, they're the same winds we prepare for, but almost never see from a hurricane, 80 miles inland.
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