Puh-leeze.
Floyd "fizzled" to a Cat 2 at landfall.
Still caused 4.6 billion in damage and killed 56 people.
Rita will still cause major storm surge along the coast and the inland flooding could well be worse than what we saw with Floyd.
And if Rita had remained a strong Cat 4, it would have killed just about anyone remaining along the coast.
http://www.nbc10.com/weather/3735525/detail.html
http://www.nbc10.com/weather/3735525/detail.html
This are some articles about what Ivan did when the eye of Ivan went in over Pensacola.