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A strike or landfall some 1-200 miles North ( of where it hit in N. Mexico ) would have killed perhaps tens of thousands-maybe many times more. This would have been the largest natural disaster in our history.
FEEMA was making a very hard push with all the men & equipment they could muster, in a desperate run from all over the nation.

You joke about things which are no joking matter. This storm had SUSTAINED winds over 250 MPH-the highest ever recorded in a hurricane, I beleive. That would equal the expected wind in a tornado, perhaps. Spread over tens of thousands of square miles. Central in such a storm, with extremly low air pressure, would have been a dome of high water, perhaps 20 feet above sea level. At landfall, storm tide is refered to as as strom surge. This one would have traveled inland for some miles. I am sure it did in Mexico. It would have, by landfall, been large enough to cover most of the Southern tip of Texas-had it turned in that direction.

Take a look at Brownsville, Harlingen & what is known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas-it is filled with hundreds of thousands of illegals, camped with no real housing. Corpus Christi has a population of over 250,000. It could have aslo run up the ?Texas coast-as have lesser stroms. The death toll there could have been beyond our comprehension.

The strike in a relatively unpopulated region was a life-saving factor-of huge proportions.

It could have aslo run up the ?Texas coast-as have lesser stroms. The death toll there could have been beyond our comprehension.

I live near the coast and I remember Gilbert. It was a storm that should have had all of us running for cover. I remember that it was hundreds of miles away, we had cloud cover from it for over a week here in the Houston/Galveston area. It was so big that it completely covered the entire Gulf of Mexico. I remember cutting classes at U of H to stand in line to get bread, water and formula for my daughter. We were most fortunate that it didn't hit in our highly populated area. Entire villages in Mexico were flattened. The floods and mudslides were devastating.