re: #30 lawhawk

There are always people who think that they can live forever or that they’ll survive nature’s worst.

These people will be in for a reckoning. At a cat 3 125mph, you’re living through an EF2 tornado that lasts for hours.

If the storm pops back to a Cat 4 at 140 mph, you’re pushing EF3.

Should the storm go back to the insane levels of Cat 5, that’s a EF4.

EF4 tornados can do catastrophic damage when they’re spending just a few moments on each spot of geography, and the damage path is a few hundred yards to a mile or so wide, and usually don’t extend for more than a few miles in duration.

This storm will grind through all of southern Florida with those powers. Even reinforced structures might not be enough when you’ve got a storm surge likely to overtop the islands and could wipe out the bridge to the mainland.

And the storm surge is still the deadest and more property damaging part of a hurricane.

What’s the highest elevation in all of Key West?