Before this month, just 18 such landfalls had happened in the previous 165 years (and never more than three in a single year).There have been only 33 Category 5 storms in the Atlantic since hurricane records began in 1851. Twenty-three of them have formed since 1961; 11 in only the last 14 years.

We answered these questions:

What is the current state right now?

What exactly happened?

Were we prepared? And what we should do moving forward…