Just to add to that story: When I was a boy, in the 50’s 60’s and 70’s hurricanes would be tracked by having planes fly into the storm and try to find they eye. You can imagine how tricky and dangerous it was to fly a large plane loaded with a few people and hundreds of instruments through 100+ mph winds, monitoring the barometric pressure, air flow, rains and other indicators to try to find the eye of the storms. This was the only reliable way to track big tropical storms.
These missions were typically flown by United States Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and later also the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters.
Many of these hurricane hunters never returned. Another plane would be dispatched to do the same chore in a few hours, so the storm could be tracked.
People still fly planes into the storms because there’s some data that just can’t be gotten from satellites and other means.
I hope you will keep these people in your prayers tonight. It’s their efforts, bravery and sacrifice over the last 60 years that are the reason that only a dozen or so people will die from this storm, whereas 60 years ago a storm of this magnitude that passed through so many major urban areas would have killed hundreds if not thousands of people.