Someone explain something to me...this is a link from Drudge, a NOAA.gov web site:
Looks to ME like the gusts (not maximum sustained) hit 132.
So that would likely mean it was NOT a cat 4, at least when it hit land, right?
Posted on 08/25/2017 4:19:41 PM PDT by SMGFan
[[Hurricanes are unpredictable. That’s why it is important to pay attention. Grew up in South Florida so I have experience. My last hurricane was Andrew but we were in Broward and were spared the brunt. Better to over-prepare than under-prepare. I have watched Harvey since it was first forming.]]
Anyone that has lived in south Florida for any kind of time knows full well how prepared you have to be. I went through Hurricane Andrew and I was living in Dade county at the time. A lot of the houses near me were flattened .
I lived in Dade from 1957 to 1998. Donna was my first and Andrew was my last. Hurricanes fascinate me.
I heard Donna was pretty bad , I wasn’t even thought of then.
I survived Camille . I was really young but I still remember seeing them pull bodies and how bad it smelled for months.
Went through Andrew and moved further north . My house in Palm Beach got hit so many times it wasn’t even funny , got hit by two of them back to back almost. No sooner did I get power and go shopping only to get hit again and lose power again.
I am always prepped for a storm now. I don’t ever have to run out before they they say a storm is coming . It’s no fun going to the grocery at that time. It drives me crazy seeing how many stupid people wait in line for a bag of ice after a storm . My freezers are always full of frozen gallons that keep everything cold when the power goes and I have ice that for like 3 or 4 days and cold water to drink.
If this had tracked just 25 miles further west, billions of dollars of damage (greater than what actually happened) would have been created in Corpus Christi, so in relative terms this was not a bad track although Rockport and nearby towns got clobbered hard.
Do you still think they were making this up? The weather service spends multiple millions on supercomputers and additional tens of millions on satellites. People like you that think meteorologists just make up forecasts disgust me. They use computers which can calculate millions of numbers in a blink of an eye. The weather service even publishes on their website, the forecast discussions which communicates why they make the forecast the way they do, even when the forecast is just plain old sunny.
Someone explain something to me...this is a link from Drudge, a NOAA.gov web site:
Looks to ME like the gusts (not maximum sustained) hit 132.
So that would likely mean it was NOT a cat 4, at least when it hit land, right?
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