It’s been 27 years since a hurricane last hit Cape Cod.

And though that storm, Hurricane Bob, caused a substantial amount of damage, it was “not much of a test, because it was only a fairly minor category 2 storm,” said Jeff Donnelly, who studies hurricanes at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The last time the Cape was truly tested by a hurricane, according to Donnelly, it looked almost nothing like it does today.