Downtown Miami is night and day difference compared to now with the amount of high rises. Also, the wind radius was so tight on the storm as it came ashore that 10 miles made all the difference between 80 mph winds and those gusting to 200 mph. Once N of Coral Gables the impacts lessened, while it got worse heading S to Homestead, which looked like a nuke went off. I know at RSMAS on Virginia Key the storm surge was only 5 feet compared to 17 feet down by Homestead.
https://hurricanes.earth.miami.edu/stormtide/