The media sometimes exaggerates stuff but I don't know how one could exaggerate a hurricane. When you see the damage, it's hard to imagine how it could be exaggerated. The pictures and videos are real. At least, I don't think they'd go as far as actually using CGI just to make people think it's worse than it is.
How in the world can you build a home to survive that? Unless your home is entirely poured concrete 4 foot thick walls full of rebar with no windows and mostly underground it's probably not surviving a hurricane, and it will look like this:
If you're lucky and it's a smaller hurricane, you'll just get flooding.
Also have to watch for flying air conditioners. Mice make terrible pilots at 300MPH. :biggrin:
You could probably build a traditional home and make it aerodynamic, but you still have to worry about cars and semi trucks crashing on it. It becomes a luck thing. Sometimes you see a single house somehow unaffected and the rest of the neighborhood is obliterated. Tornadoes tend to do that more than hurricanes as they're more localized. Hurricanes just level entire cities.