The thing is handling wind and rain sounds easy until you understand it as force carried through the media of air and water.

But we do have industrial scale infrastructure to curb the effect of these storm surges. We have construction techniques to make buildings more durable. We have artificial breakwaters and coastal preserves to blunt the landfall of these big storms. We have mass transit infrastructure technology to evacuate people quickly and efficiently, rather than stranding them in giant traffic jams in the middle of a storm.

This is a bombing campaign of force in a different form.

We've known how to build bunkers for over a century. Perhaps we need a modern day Enver Hoxha in the Florida governor's seat.