In article
,
Tudor Hughes writes:
The rainfall is tremendous and a hazard in itself

Yes, people always seem to overlook the very large rainfall associated
with hurricanes, which can sometimes be just as damaging as the winds.

but the wind
speeds would be familiar to anyone in the Hebrides. Worse things
happens elsewhere which we don't hear about, so why all the fuss?

New York is probably far less able to cope with high winds than is a
village in the Hebrides where they are a familiar occurrence. And the
number of people affected will be a couple of orders of magnitude
greater.
--
John Hall
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Winston S Churchill (1874-1965)