Something to remember for those of us inland or on the east coast of FL is the tornado threat. I found this information,

"Hurricanes making landfall along the southern coast of the United States and recurving northeastward are more likely to produce tornadoes than those that make landfall along the east coast or those that make landfall along the southern coast but do not recurve".

It's a very interesting report. If you want to read it, it is a PDF format. Here's the link:

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~schultz/papers/verboutetal05b.pdf