Which 2005 storm has amazed you the most?
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See the 901 verify. That was the biggest surprise of the season. I was also up half the night during Katrina too and as the first super-cat 5 of the season, it was pretty amazing. Rita sortof got squashed there between Katrina and Wilma. Stronger than Katrina, but Wilma blew that prestige away. Damage was intense, but Katrina blew that away. It wasn't so remarkable because it followed Katrina and because it was also hyped to be a monster.
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Even though I was personally impacted by Wilma and was very inconvenienced and terribly frightened by what "might have been", I still think Katrina was by far the most amazing storm. I still have a hard time accepting the total devastation caused by Katrina. Whole towns and parishes wiped off the face of the earth. So many peoples lives forever altered, not just in NO which got all the press but MS, AL, and the other parts of LA. It is totally mindboggling. I hope we never see storm surge of that magnitude again.
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The evolution of Wilma was very interesting, with the interaction with the strong cold front, and the explosion in size as it neared/crossed FL. We saw a lot of Wilma...the tiny eye at 882 mb, then the Katrina-like eye as it whipped the Yucatan, then the regeneration before it pounded SFL.
I posted this before, but she was great drama.
I posted this before, but she was great drama.
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Lowpressure wrote:Katrina purely because of her major impact. 50 years from now we will still measure against Katrina for coastal impact- EPIC HURRICANE.
I just hope next year no hurricane tries to top her. Who knows, next year we may have a Cat 4 or 5 making a direct hit on Miami or Tampa. Or a monster hurricane hitting Galveston. A major hurricane directly slamming NYC and New England. We may even see multiple disasters like those.
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Lowpressure wrote:Katrina purely because of her major impact. 50 years from now we will still measure against Katrina for coastal impact- EPIC HURRICANE.
My thoughts exactly. The destruction to the state of Mississippi and city of New Orleans are unsurpassed to anything we have witnessed in our lifetimes from any previous hurricane.
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