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Three Reasons Why Irma’s Florida Strike Wasn’t as Bad as Forecast
Valerie Bauerlein
Sept. 11, 2017 2:22 p.m. ET
Irma evacuee Frank Rizzo woke up in his hotel in South Carolina on Monday, bracing for the seemingly likely news that his 3,600 square-feet waterfront home in Cape Coral, Fla., was a total loss.
Instead, he learned from a neighbor that he didn’t lose a shingle. What happened?
Hurricane Irma was a powerful, sprawling storm that decimated parts of the Caribbean and as a weaker tropical storm, it continues to inundate northern Florida and the South Carolina coast. But the storm didn’t obliterate Miami, inundate the Gulf Coast with excessive storm surge or destroy thousands of homes on the west coast of Florida as feared.
First, Irma ran low on fuel.
Then, the winds changed.
A third reason was the weakening of the eyewall, the whirling vortex of intense wind and heavy rain at the center of a hurricane.