https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/784016539850772481
“We have strong cat 4 at landfall, crossing the gulf stream could see this go sub 920 and cat 5. Tom Downs here at weatherbell same concern”
Let’s all hope Bastardi is wrong.
Oy! What everyone fears, Andrew type bombing out. A Cat 5 even brushing the coast is bad news, very bad news. Huge storm surge, basically everything the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway under water. Massive structural damage to most structures according to the Safir\Simpson scale. I was down in Kendall\Miami Gardens after Andrew. Think Dresden in WWII. Katrina was bad, but that damage in NO was due to flooding not so much the winds.
I saw chatter about the possibility of Cat 5 last night. This storm is a beast.