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Originally Posted by ligastar
Harvey was a record breaker. Frighteningly, Irma could cause more widespread death and destruction. Another "once in a century" storm... starting to become a common refrain isn't it.
As a storm, Harvey broke records. As a hurricane, not so much.
Too many people overlook that what MOST of the region got was NOT a hurricane. We didn't have WIND damage. We had rain from a system that stalled and moved slower than grandma using her walker. Seriously...at times, Harvey moved less than two miles per hour.
Even with 30+ inches of rain at the lake house (north of Houston on Lake Conroe), I had pool noodles that never even moved during the rains.
As to Irma, it is interesting that so many of the charts people use for 'record' windspeeds that they want to lay at the foot of 'climate change' contain storms that happened 30+ years ago. In other words, massive storms happen.
That being said, I can only advise that those in the projected path of Irma get to planning and get out if they can. Remember also that landfall projections can change more than once...Harvey had THREE separate landfalls as a storm, although only one was as a hurricane. And once it left the Houston area to go back over the Gulf, it briefly looked like it was going to turn and hit Houston a second time.
I'm just hoping Katia becomes the nothing that Jose was projected to be when it was supposed to be Jose in the Gulf...