When I was returning home following Katrina, I saw trees snapped in half and highway signs down as far north as 220 miles. That is extremely unusual. We stopped at a restaurant in Meridian, about 200 miles inland, and the waitress told us Katrina blew through there as a category 2.
Usually I go about 100 miles inland. For Katrina we saw forecasts of the area we were planning to go to getting hit hard by Katrina as a strong hurricane so we went on to Tennessee (550 miles north) to visit family.
I seem to recall huge swaths of forest flattened by Hugo driving through central South (or North?) carolina.
If anyone can get at least 200 miles North of where the best guess that the storm will be making landfall, please do so. When Hurricane Jeanne hit Ft Pierce last Sept 26 at 120-125 mph we were 60 miles inland as the crow flies and it nailed us at the same approx wind velocity, and continued on its destruction through central Florida and out the West coast. Please try to get way out of the continued path of the storm unless there are high elevations like Mountains to slow the storm down and break it up there will be terrible destruction similar to where it first had landfall. I don't know if that part of Texas has Mountains or not, I hope so because Florida's terrain is mostly flat and did not stop much at all.
If anyone can get at least 200 miles North of where the best guess that the storm will be making landfall, please do so. When Hurricane Jeanne hit Ft Pierce last Sept 26 at 120-125 mph we were 60 miles inland as the crow flies and it nailed us at the same approx wind velocity, and continued on its destruction through central Florida and out the West coast. Please try to get way out of the continued path of the storm unless there are high elevations like Mountains to slow the storm down and break it up there will be terrible destruction similar to where it first had landfall. I don't know if that part of Texas has Mountains or not, I hope so because Florida's terrain is mostly flat and did not stop much at all.