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To: Ilaine who wrote (20077)	6/1/2006 1:55:19 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541346

hmmm "Katrina's sustained winds reached 175 mph (150 knots) and its minimum central pressure dropped as low as 902 millibars (a measure of a hurricane's strength—the fourth lowest on record for an Atlantic hurricane. The storm's intensity diminished slightly as it approached the central Gulf Coast, but Katrina remained a strong Category Four storm until landfall along the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts on August 29. Although its intensity at landfall was less than that of Hurricane Camille, which devastated coastal Mississippi in August 1969, the size of Katrina, with hurricane force winds extending 120 miles from its center, was much larger and the destruction more widespread than Camille." noaanews.noaa.gov So by one measure of strength it has the 4th lowest millibar rating- but you claim it wasn't more powerful than average :-) ok. Sure. Doesn't make any sense to me, but I will accept that you believe the sentence that you just wrote, but failed to support with any facts.