Cat. 5 Storm surge or Cat. 5 winds (Plus round houses)

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Cat. 5 Storm surge or Cat. 5 winds (Plus round houses)

#1 Postby max » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:48 pm

What are you more scared of?
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#2 Postby Scorpion » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:51 pm

I would have to say surge. With the wind, you can barricade yourself with mattresses and other objects, but with water there is nothing you can do.
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#3 Postby max » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:52 pm

Scorpion wrote:I would have to say surge. With the wind, you can barricade yourself with mattresses and other objects, but with water there is nothing you can do.


Yeah you can't hide from the water even if your in the strongest house ever. A round house.

The only way you could is if maybe your house could float as the surge rose.

Still if the water is powerful enough it could start to tear apart the house.
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Matt-hurricanewatcher

#4 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:53 pm

Water any day...Wind you can stay in a soild building in watch the cane come in.
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Derek Ortt

#5 Postby Derek Ortt » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:53 pm

do not downplay the force of real cat 5 winds

The gusts are close to the intensity of an EF-5 tornado... and we know how scary those can be
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#6 Postby max » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:54 pm

Derek Ortt wrote:do not downplay the force of real cat 5 winds

The gusts are close to the intensity of an EF-5 tornado... and we know how scary those can be


What a EF-5 tornado please?
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#7 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:57 pm

New tornadoe scale. In which they found that tornadoe's where not as strong as first thought.
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#8 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:58 pm

New tornadoe scale. In which they found that tornadoe's where not as strong as first thought.
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Derek Ortt

#9 Postby Derek Ortt » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:59 pm

EF-5 is the worst type of Tornado, with winds over 200 m.p.h.

You get a storm like Wilma, SUSTAINED winds are close to that level and gusts are well over 200 m.p.h.... the wind likely destroys everything, possibly even your safe room, leaving you unprotected
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#10 Postby max » Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:00 pm

Derek Ortt wrote:EF-5 is the worst type of Tornado, with winds over 200 m.p.h.

You get a storm like Wilma, SUSTAINED winds are close to that level and gusts are well over 200 m.p.h.... the wind likely destroys everything, possibly even your safe room, leaving you unprotected


:eek:

Do you think a round house would be gone please?
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#11 Postby brunota2003 » Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:47 pm

Hmmm...water...you can run and hide from the wind most of the time...water there is no hiding from...
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#12 Postby Frank P » Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:39 am

Derek Ortt wrote:do not downplay the force of real cat 5 winds

The gusts are close to the intensity of an EF-5 tornado... and we know how scary those can be


this might be true but those extreme winds would be quite limited in area... of course very unfortunate for those directly in the path... the surge on the other hand associated with such a strong storm would encompass quite a large area... Camillle is a good example of that, so is Katrina.... for the record I'd take wind over water any day... but I guess it's all a wash, no pun intended, if the wind is 200 + mph... then like Derek says, not going to be much left standing anyway.... big difference between a hurricane with 200 mph and a F4/5 is that the winds in the hurricane are going to last a lot longer than the F4/5 (depending on the forward speed of the cane)... now how many houses can stand up to that kind of long term pummeling.... probably less than 5% at best
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#13 Postby Derek Ortt » Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:02 am

the wind was a serious problem in the 1935 hurricane

There were reports of people sandblasted to death in the 185 m.p.h. sustained winds
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#14 Postby wayoutfront » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:35 pm

Water carries many times more energy than air.

I would MUCH rather be in 120 MPH winds than 10 MPH surge
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#15 Postby max » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:37 pm

What about a round house could it survive 200 mph sustain winds with higher gusts?
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