re: #28 dangerman

and that animation is just wind

if i remember, hurricane georges 1998 was a “weak” cat 2 windwise, when it hit palm beach county. then it dumped a ton of water. just massive flooding

Exactly. With hurricanes it’s like Kipling’s “Gunga Din”: “When it comes to slaughter you will do your work on water.”

But wind can get you too in a fluke. Can’t remember if it was Rita or Gustav, probably Gustav. A couple of New Orleanians, remembering Katrina, evacuated to Baton Rouge to refugee in the house of friends. A large tree blew down and crashed into the house, killing the NOLAns. It was big in the BR news because they were the only fatalities of the storm and, I guess, because the story had an appointment-in-Samarra quality.