To: Crazieman
Hurricane Hugo: Sept. 10-25, 1989 (I missed the year). Max. winds: 160 mph Min. pressure: 918 mb Category: 5. Source http://www.usatoday.com/weather/huricane/whugo.htm
The Saffir-Simpson scale was invented in the early 1970's.
315 posted on
08/27/2005 10:04:51 PM PDT by
alancarp
(When does it cease to be "Freedom of the Press" and become outright SEDITION?)
To: alancarp
It was not 5 at landfall. Thats what counts.
321 posted on
08/27/2005 10:05:41 PM PDT by
Crazieman
(6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
To: alancarp
Hugo was most definitely a 4 at landfall (135mph), and I was outside like an idiot not too far inland (about 60 miles). It's hard to imagine anything much worse than that. I shudder to think what a 5 is like on the coast..
346 posted on
08/27/2005 10:11:06 PM PDT by
AntiGuv
("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
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