Thats a good point...Florida is also very low and an exposed peninsula that cops Hurricanes from both the Gulf on the west and the Carribean to the east....

Florida is also only about 2% of australias landmass with pretty close to our entire countries population at something like 23 million...

Lots and lots of fat americans down there..and forget about the Saffir–Simpson scale ..this is how lots of americans really perceive Hurricanes..

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/10/09/hurricane-milton-hits-red-on-waffle-house-index-the-natural-disaster-scale-explained/

We had a couple of young Americans from the south stay with us the end of last year and all they talked about was there time spent eating at Waffle House...they had endless stories of things that happened at various waffle houses and how much they ate and spent there....Serriously we were just like "What the [censored]are these people on about"..