ted,
re: A large cat. 5 hurricane can pretty much maintain its strength over its entire landfall......esp. if it starts on the east cost of FLA and comes out on the west coast. Its true that the inland areas won't have to deal with the storm surge but I suspect they will be hit almost as badly by the winds and tornadoes.
Yes, the storms, and maybe tornados, will be bad inland. But frankly, hurricanes usually dissipate pretty quickly once they get inland. That's not to say a category 3 isn't devasating on the coast, a category 4 isn't catastrophic, and if it is a category 5... well, we have no idea how bad it could be.
re: Those poor people in Punta Gorda............if they get hit again.
Very, very unlikely, almost impossible. It might get McMannis... I imagine he and the other folks on the east coast of FL are not thinking about politics today, or tomorrow, or Friday. They are grim, trying to figure a way to protect what they own, and their lives. They are trying to figure what they will do if they don't have electricity, water, phone, shelter, mail, any retail, any services, any ice, for the next month. It's sobering.
Who knows where it will go. Wherever... God bless.
John |
