seaswing wrote:I hear ya! no, we don't have the levees that just aren't tall and strong enough and we aren't below sea level everywhere~ but Fla. isn't very wide in the widest part. A cat 5 would cover the whole state more than likely and there would be nowhere to evacuate except out of state... especially if it crossed east to west or west to east. A cat 6? well, no one would know what to expect... but I think it's coming..... not too far in our distant future....IMO... and again, IMO, global warming or the beginning of an active 20 years.... it will make Katrina look like a cat 1.skysummit wrote:Heck...I'd much rather ride out a Cat 5 in Florida than I would ride out a Cat 3 in South Louisiana.
A wet cat 5 hurricane moving 15mph from Miami north would be as catastrophic as Katrina..Besides the material and human losses,it would toss Florida back in time to 1929 economically...Florida would be done for many,many years...