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To: Mariner

Even if a building is concrete it may fall, either due to implosion or the ridiculous amount of sand they use in construction there. Steel may go too. In Hugo, I saw a billboard made of four eighteen inch I-beams bent over at a 90 degree angle.

The storm surge on this should be wild. What will the tide be when it hits? High or low? What is the pressure in the eye (that is what really sucks up the storm surge)? It would be hard to believe that the surge can be that high for an eye 60 miles across, but who knows?

I stayed for Hugo and will never again stay for anything like that.


6 posted on 10/23/2015 9:18:02 AM PDT by rey
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To: rey
The good news is that part of Mexico does not have a low-lying coastal plane.

From the beach, it's straight into hills, then mountains.

Hugo was a spring shower compared to this monster. These types of storms are usually seen only in the Western Pacific, and then they are rare.

11 posted on 10/23/2015 9:24:31 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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