I want to make something EXTREMELY clear:
Toss out the "what category will it be at landfall?" right now. Throw it out. Why?
Categories are for WIND not SURGE.
You want a category that you can relate to? Assume the surge will inflict catastrophic damage; AKA CAT 5 damage.
Do
Truly remarkable time lapse video from our remote cam that was set up in Laplace, LA at Frenier Landing to capture the storm surge from hurricane #Ida@BuzzFeedStorm@afreedma@capitalweather
WTF???!! People are trying to save their lives and these Hilton properties are charging THIS much? I’ve been a HH member for 20 years and this really disappoints me.
This is Weds night.
Shame!!!!
I have driven from Texas City through the entirety of Galveston Island, down through Surfside Beach and Freeport, back up into Sugar Land, across the greater Houston area, and now out to the George Bush airport region. I kid you not I have not seen a single power truck.
I don’t
Key West has recorded its 3rd highest surge ever with the approach of #Ian.
This is what our remote cam captured shortly before it went off-line due to an overall network outage down there.
#KeyWest@foxweather
Florida is bad. Western NC is truly catastrophic.
This is why I believe the old Saffir-Simpson scale needs to be relegated to the history books.
You want categories? Helene was a solid 5 in terms of IMPACTS for both Florida and North Carolina.
It’s not about the wind (which
Some thoughts and observations to the state and federal response to historic flooding in Western NC from Hurricane Helene
Its not sinking in to outsiders, or it’s just so hard to comprehend that the countless roads in Western N.C. , simply no longer exist.
The state and
Galveston a day after category one hurricane Beryl.
There’s hardly anyone here.
Tell me more about how this was overblown or won’t amount to a thing.
Actually, don’t tell me, tell the businesses who are losing revenue.
Tell the people who have no AC.
It’s all about the