"Joolz" wrote:

But was this because they were ignorant to the dangers of Isabel, or was it
because Isabel was 'disappointingly (from the reporters/news teams point of
view) downgraded from a cat 5 to a cat 2 storm. Therefore they were led to
believe the threat was not so serious?


How can anybody be ignorant when one of the slowest moving hurricanes in
history is yacked about on every TV channel for at least a week in
advance?


I also think the damage was greater because these areas have not been hit by
such a strong force for quite sometime, making older trees etc more likely to
fall under such pressure.


An excessively rainy summer would cause many trees to put out up to
twice their usual annual leaf growth; increased wind resistance may have
caused blow downs out of normal proportion with the strength of the
storm.

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