Steve wrote:Meteorcane wrote:
Although most of those structures weren't very well built, that is solid Cat.3 damage in that video probably the worst wind damage I have seen since Charley.
I agree on the 3 looking damage in that piece. But I think there was way more smashed up and mangled damage in Rita, Ike and then on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with Katrina where anything not concrete piled up miles inland. I've actually never seen an area as wiped clean as that. Frank P who lives there will tell you. Slabs. Unlike Andrew where the destruction was complete but was due in large part to the wind and everything looked like matchsticks, this just swept through and took blocks away. Anything left standing had no doors, windows or contents as they got scoured out. I'm not trying to hype Katrina at all. But if you haven't looked at some of the before after pictures from BSL, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Gulfport or Biloxi, you owe yourself some research. That's not to downplay Charley either. It was a beast and smashed a ton of stuff along the way. It was a small storm thankfully though that has often been cited as a reason it got so strong. I feel like if Harvey was a larger storm and/or was not all that far up or down the coastline, damage to coastal cities and beach towns would have been much more widespread.
Wasn't most of that damaged done by the surge? They are saying alot of the damage in Rockport was from the winds.