When they did the damage surveys after the North Carolina tornado outbreak in 2011, I remember the arguments people had about whether this one was an EF2 or that one was an EF3...didn’t seem to make a whole lot of difference given that peoples’ homes were just as flattened regardless, but I guess for research and posterity these things have to be done.
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Yup. Whether it's an EF1 or EF5, your survivors won't much care.
Some quite small ones can be very deadly, if the cards fall wrong, yet some real monsters have been relatively benign.