We've done plenty of rides on the Hurricane, since it's our "home coaster". This past summer it was a nice addition, before the only real coaster we had was J. Miller's Swamp Fox. Poor Swamp Fox now, if you go to Myrtle Beach please ride it! Not enough people rode it this last year ( because of the Hurricane ) to really make it run right.
When Hurricane first opened I would bet on it that the ride was more intense. On the trip through the first helix, it felt like the skin on your face was going to get ripped off. Not that you're not moving now or anything, it just seemed more intense in the beginning. The blue train is faster than the red train, too.