Could have would have. Many down there are questioning the report that it was a cat 5. Sorry.
We have had have 3 hurricanes, 2 of which are major hurricanes in Atlantic that we have faced this year so far. This is the 4th in the last 120 years this has happened. The other three times it happened where there were 3 hurricanes with 2 being major ones in Atlantic was 1893, 1961 and 2010.
We are being told by these same experts that Irma was so destructive it would make Harvey look tame by comparison. Yet we know it wasn't as bad as they claimed. Was it bad, yes, like all hurricanes are, but as i said, they were off, as they usually are. That was my point.
Do I have empathy for those suffering? Hell yes, but to bow down and call these people the great gods of the weather? Give me a break. They were WRONG AGAIN!
Could have would have. Many down there are questioning the report that it was a cat 5. Sorry. Well when winds reach a certain speed, then it's a Cat 5.
They can *question* it all they want, but they cannot change the facts.
” Many down there are questioning the report that it was a cat 5. Sorry.”
Huh?
It was a cat 5 for days grinding toward Florida. Wind speeds were measured at that rate. The track wasn’t changing.
Had it stayed a cat 5 and ground up the east coast of Florida; damage would have been unimaginable with all the property in that area.
I can’t imagine 185 mph winds over a big swath of a densely populated state.
Irma was not Cat 5 in Florida. It was Cat 4 at Cudjoe Key and Cat 3 by the time it hit Marco Island and the mainland.
Accurate records in terms of the hairs being split here only go back to 1966.