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To: elfman2
Blown up a little with the 'height="1200"' command in the src statement.


90 posted on 09/25/2005 8:52:18 AM PDT by easonc52
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To: easonc52

The enlargement shows classic eyewall damage. The water comes ashore with velocity, and being heavy, it breaks things. One the structure's integrity is lost, the wind and surf together remove the debris.

Though this may seem insensitive, I've seen worse. There's a lot of telephone poles still standing in that photo. Higher winds snap them off at ground level. Andrew took reinforced concrete. Katrina did too.

I imagined before the storm that this is what would happen to Sabine and Sabine Pass. The term I think I used was "vaporize". The storm came ashore a little east of east of the predictions, and Cameron got it instead. Well, maybe not instead, because I haven't seen damage reports from Sabine yet.

Another place that I haven't heard from that may have been hit pretty hard is Orange.

We'll see what turns up today, when there will be real assesment. I rarely expect any kind of comprehensive overview until landfall plus 24 hours, and that can vary depending on when during the diurnal cycle the storm comes ashore.

(O/T, company coming, I'll be off for a few hours, and will be back sometime this evening.)


136 posted on 09/25/2005 11:39:49 AM PDT by jeffers
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