I don't know if this will ease anyone's concern or not, but I will share my Tropical Storm/Hurricane experience.
It was Gustav and I think in 2008??? It was late August and my birthday...a few days before the storm they took all the boats/jet skiis, etc. etc. out of the ocean and the water was CALM...not ONE wave (really errie!!!!), and the day before they closed the airport and grounded all planes!!!!. I was at Hedonism II, and they gave us instructions on what to do and told us that if we wanted to leave that we could...well we said ***k it and decided to ride the storm out!!! The storm came and went and we survived...at one point the winds died down a bit and the rain eased up and we made our way to the dining room to get some food/drinks and as soon as we got there the winds and rain picked back up!!!! so we were stuck there instead of our rooms and Hedonism II has an open air dining room...OK!!!
Needless to say, the locals knew what to do and kept all the guest calmed and informed and all in all no major damage, but there was lots of flooding and the ocean waves were very choppy and high.
