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To: combjelly who wrote (200792)	9/7/2004 11:04:41 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1575422

RE:"Sorry, they should scare the hell out of people. Too many take hurricanes too lightly." Well, it goes beyond that. I'll explain later.

To: combjelly who wrote (200792)	9/7/2004 11:11:37 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575422

RE:"Yeah, a Cat2 isn't much to worry about, but most buildings can't take a Cat3, much less above. And then there are the tornados..." Frances was huge. The eye was up to 70 miles wide at one point as well but that was an indication it wasn't a Cat 4. Unlike Andrew this hurricane didn't spawn a lot of tornados. BTW, since Andrew in 1992, the buildings here are built to a 140 mph code. I'm glad it wasn't tested. I have friends in Abaco, Bahamas and that had 165 mph gusts there but they are used to hurricanes and build accordingly. Floyd hit them with upwards or 200 mph gusts about 6 years ago. Again, people here should be happy this was only Cat 2.