Tampa's Lancer Thread!!!
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From: Riverview, FL
Originally Posted by bahamut
Yeah, looks like Ivan will try to finish us what Charley didn't do. Oh brother!!!
This will be nasty!!!!
This will be nasty!!!!
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From: TB, FL
I don't think it's going to make a dramatic swerve upwards.
I'm thinking it's going to flow allong the path of least resistance . . . it'll be the strait between cuba and mexico.
At this rate, I don't relish the thought of a possible Cat 6 or above cane. There won't be much left in FL for voters to even concentrate for the election.
I'm thinking it's going to flow allong the path of least resistance . . . it'll be the strait between cuba and mexico.
At this rate, I don't relish the thought of a possible Cat 6 or above cane. There won't be much left in FL for voters to even concentrate for the election.
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Originally Posted by bahamut
I don't think it's going to make a dramatic swerve upwards.
I'm thinking it's going to flow allong the path of least resistance . . . it'll be the strait between cuba and mexico.
At this rate, I don't relish the thought of a possible Cat 6 or above cane. There won't be much left in FL for voters to even concentrate for the election.
I'm thinking it's going to flow allong the path of least resistance . . . it'll be the strait between cuba and mexico.
At this rate, I don't relish the thought of a possible Cat 6 or above cane. There won't be much left in FL for voters to even concentrate for the election.
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"There is no category 6 because so few storms would reach that scale. "You're only getting 2 or 3 percent in that Category 5. It's just the way they did it,'' said Jerry Jarrell, director of the National Hurricane Center."
"We have been tracking hurricanes since around 1871 but we have only haD a HURRICANE SCALE WITH CATEGORIES FROM 1 THROUGH 5 for the past 20+ years. Anything above 155 mph is considered a Category 5. We don't have category 6 mainly because after a category 5 damage is catastrophic. There have been other hurricanes, for example Gilbert in 1988 that at one point had winds of more than 220 mph. The most damaging hurricane in destruction was Hurricane Andrew in 1992 which caused more than 30 billion dollars in damage. The DEADLIEST to hit the USA was one 1900 that hit Galveston, texas and caused between 6000 and 8000 deaths."
"We have been tracking hurricanes since around 1871 but we have only haD a HURRICANE SCALE WITH CATEGORIES FROM 1 THROUGH 5 for the past 20+ years. Anything above 155 mph is considered a Category 5. We don't have category 6 mainly because after a category 5 damage is catastrophic. There have been other hurricanes, for example Gilbert in 1988 that at one point had winds of more than 220 mph. The most damaging hurricane in destruction was Hurricane Andrew in 1992 which caused more than 30 billion dollars in damage. The DEADLIEST to hit the USA was one 1900 that hit Galveston, texas and caused between 6000 and 8000 deaths."
Last edited by bahamut; Sep 9, 2004 at 11:32 AM.
