Hurricanes are destroyers of things. In a full on hurricane a ham radio is probably not going to work all that well due to atmospheric interference and the fact that your antennae will be located several kilometers from where it was originally installed. Communications and electricity are usually the first things to go out in a storm and even a high quality radio will not be guaranteed to be of much use in such circumstances.
For near misses, if your house internet goes down, your cell service might not. I hear that people use twitter and other social media to sends screams of panic out into the ether. Some DR1 users activate a whatsapp chat group during these times. But in the end, If a Maria type storm passes over your neighborhood, you won't have the time or the inclination to be sitting in front of a radio flipping through frequencies. Ideally, you and your radio should be no where near each other, as you should be sipping a cocktail from a safe location well outside the path of the storm. Your access to the information you need to be safe is always available in the days leading up to a big storm. After it arrives knowing minute to minute that you should have left is not particularly cathartic.
Spending a night or two elsewhere is always a more prudent option than rolling the dice and then flipping through the dial to see if you rolled snake-eyes.