#3891 Postby Blinhart » Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:08 am
meriland23 wrote:Hurricaneman wrote:Blinhart wrote:Looks Like Matthew might just want take a ride along I-95 or even the new bike path that is getting built from Miami to Portland, Me. This could cause catastrophic damage and deaths and become the most deadly and costly storm in history.
costly maybe but not the deadliest
You can bet that if it rides up the EC it would be one of the deadliest in history. People neglect mandatory evacuations a lot, assuming they'll ride it out, etc. Ntm the amount of people it'd effect, the flooding, the damage, the chaos.. it'd make Katrina look weak in comparison. I'm not saying this to deduce from Katrina, but this would be one of the worst case scenarios you can imagine in terms of natural disasters.
Also you got to remember if this system does come into Miami say Monday night, Tuesday morning, that gives less than 4 days for them to get everything situated and start doing evacuations, which would cause massive transit delays and people might get caught in this system with out any shelter. You also got to remember Flash Flooding associated with a Tropical System is part of the total numbers, so just because you are in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, or any other inner state that might get rain and wind from this system, all that damage and death would be included in the totals. This system could effect almost 1/4th to 1/3rd of the population of the USA, so that is a super major storm
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