I live in Miami Dade and my location came no closer than sixty miles at best to the center of the storm. In spite of that and in spite that this area is experienced with Hurricanes over 800,000 people are without electricity in Miami Dade county also only 20 percent of traffic signals are functioning ....from what I saw in a ride around five miles long there are no working traffic lights around here ...no stores are open or can open...cell phones only recently began to work for me again...there are Bulldozers in Ft Lauderdale A 1 A trying to move sand dunes that obliterated the road during the surge...at my location I had tropical storm strength winds and intense rains for over 32 hours... i experienced 8 hours of howling hurricane winds and outrageous rain during that same span ....the media did not hype anything...