[rockabyebaby]

A cat 1 can have sustained winds of 85mph which can do a hell of a lot of damage. One person has already been killed in NC due to a fallen tree. Do not underestimated the damage that can be caused by a cat 1.

[ClearCase_guy]

True, a cat 1 can be significant for those who are impacted. But yesterday the folks on TV were talking about people potentially losing electricity for a week.

That hardly seems likely from a cat 1 storm.

[KeyLargo]

“One person has already been killed in NC due to a fallen tree.”

And this is significant how?

The U.S. average for deaths from “wind thrown trees” is 1.45 per million people,
http://whentreesattack.blogspot.com/

Health

Car Crashes Kill 40,000 in U.S. Every Year

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146212,00.html#ixzz1WFPomd5M

[riri]

Not to sound unsympathetic but it was a fallen tree branch. If you get taken out by a fallen tree branch, I have to go with “it was just your time”.