[proud American in Canada]

Wilma is now the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. She's outdone her sisters Katrina and Rita in both pressure and the speed of her ramp-up to Cat 5.

As the people back home would say, "holy cow."

I heard this on the radio when I woke up and just could not believe it.

[Fawn]

But it's a very small storm. The eye is only 4 miles wide---and it extends about 16 miles out (each way I think)