Maybe take a month off and spend it with family

#21 Postby **george_r_1961** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:18 pm

conestogo_flood wrote:August 5th my parents want to go to Miami with a friend and myself. Maybe, just maybe, we'll strike it lucky... meaning there is a hurricane. As long as it isn't anything over cat 1/2.

Oops, -removed-.

Any idea what even a Cat 1 can do????

#22 Postby **gatorcane** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:20 pm

george_r_1961 wrote:
conestogo_flood wrote:August 5th my parents want to go to Miami with a friend and myself. Maybe, just maybe, we'll strike it lucky... meaning there is a hurricane. As long as it isn't anything over cat 1/2.

Oops, -removed-.

Any idea what even a Cat 1 can do????

Yes good point. Katrina was a a CAT 1 in South Florida and caused quite alot of damage....

#23 Postby **gatorcane** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:21 pm

and Wilma was a CAT 1-2 and caused power outages for weeks in South Florida...

Grease Monkey · #24 Postby **Grease Monkey** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:25 pm

gatorcane wrote:and Wilma was a CAT 1-2 and caused power outages for weeks in South Florida...

I rememeber Wilma making landfall at 125mph. That would make it a CAT3 and the fact that it moved by quickly, just about everyone that was in the path of the eye got CAT3 winds or very strong CAT2 winds at the least.

#25 Postby **gatorcane** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:27 pm

Grease Monkey wrote:
gatorcane wrote:and Wilma was a CAT 1-2 and caused power outages for weeks in South Florida...

I rememeber Wilma making landfall at 125mph. That would make it a CAT3 and the fact that it moved by quickly, just about everyone that was in the path of the eye got CAT3 winds or very strong CAT2 winds at the least.

Metro south Florida received CAT 1 to 2 sustained winds with some higher "micro bursts" of CAT 3....

Believe it or not Wilma was not a major hurricane in metro Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade.

Grease Monkey · #26 Postby **Grease Monkey** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:35 pm

Well I wouldn't consider Wilma a major hurricane, but it definitely seemed noticeably more intense than francis and jeane here in central PBC especially when the backside of the storm hit.

#27 Postby **gatorcane** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:37 pm

Grease Monkey wrote:Well I wouldn't consider Wilma a major hurricane, but it definitely seemed noticeably more intense than francis and jeane here in central PBC especially when the backside of the storm hit.

Keep in mind Jeanne and Frances made landfall further north byt about 75 miles from South Palm Beach in Ft. Pierce and much of Palm Beach was on the weaker south side of those canes....

Wilma was a direct hit.

Vandora · #28 Postby **Vandora** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:43 pm

No matter how you look at it, I don't think anyone in S. Fl. would like ANY canes. No -removed- for those of us who live down here, please!

Maybe take a month off and spend it with family

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