Would a Cat 1 be something we should be boarding up for? I know that somehow I am going to have to board up a side window on my house because the huge Grand home next to me doesn't have any gutters. The last time it hailed here, the pellets of ice bounced right off their roof and down onto my windows. Not that the gutters would have stopped it or anything, but we don't have anything protecting the windows. Nothing has grown high enough yet.
One trouble with Cat 1's is that they can go rapidly to higher categories.