[blam]

"Latest advisory. Cat 4, 155mph, pressure still dropping, 936mb, NNE, a wobble to the west again!"

155 MPH?
Boy O Boy.
There will be nothing left.

[abb]

I don’t know, blam. Unlike the Redneck Riviera beaches we all are used to with dunes and sea oats, that part of Florida is thick with Red Mangrove. Root system you wouldn’t believe. We were down there last year, and that was fascinating to me. For sure some of the man-made structures will suffer, but that part of the world would’ve washed away centuries ago but for those mangroves.

[baclava]

Cat 4 @ 155mph, 157 is Cat 5, no difference really, now slowing, NNE 9mph.

It’s a monster, not a little fast moving compact storm like Charley, anything in it’s path gonna get pounded, for many hours, days.