In sci.physics, Attila the Bum

wrote
on 9 Sep 2005 13:02:47 -0700
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"cat3" in retrospect, of course.

Katty was cat4?

Katrina was a cat5 at one point -- not for very long, though.
But it was a monster cat4 storm when it hit New Orleans.

http://www.weathernet5.com/weatherblog/index.html
claims it's the most destructive hurricane ever. This is debatable,
but one might add the qualifier "since modern hurricanes were
tracked in the 20th century" or some such and make it right.
There are also issues of what might have been, had the levees been
up to snuff -- but they weren't really designed for anything
beyond a cat3.

The odd thing was that it hit Florida as a cat1 -- and nobody says
much about the damage there. (Perhaps there wasn't much there.)



Atty (cat0, AFAIK; nice-guy :-)



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