Thanks for those links Cleo.
CNN is now reporting this as the kind of storm that destroyed the Florida Keys in 1935.
Unfortunately, yes, some of them do come at us out of the West like that.
The only storms we've ever really been concerned about is one that comes at us the way this one could. We're tucked up out of the way for most storms coming out of the Atlantic. But a big one coming in from the Gulf could be a serious problem.
Simon