permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Hope all you Floridians are out of the path or have hunkered down and zipped up...


Stay safe!!!



Hurricane strength is rated using the Saffir–Simpson scale, first developed in 1971 by Herbert Saffir and Robert Simpson, a civil engineer and meteorologist respectively. While flooding can account for much of the lasting damage a hurricane can cause, the Saffir-Simpson scale is concerned solely with windspeed, using the max speed of sustained winds to organize hurricanes into the five established categories:

Category 1: Very dangerous winds will produce some damage. 74-95 mph winds.
Category 2: Extremely dangerous winds will cause extensive damage. 96-110 mph winds.
Category 3: Devastating damage will occur. 111-129 mph winds.
Category 4: Catastrophic damage will occur. 130-156 mph winds.
Category 5: Catastrophic damage will occur on a large scale. 157 mph or higher winds.
The potential for a Category 6 storms seems obvious. Hurricane Irma's 185 mph winds are much higher than a Category 5's lower bound, after all. It's a moot point however, because the Saffir-Simpson scale is not designed to arbitrarily classify storms into tiers based on wind speed or some sort of abstract power level. The Saffir-Simpson scale is designed to reflect the damage a given storm will cause to buildings and other man-made structures in its path. Category 5 is widespread, catastrophic damage. There's not really anything worse than that.

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

Category 6:
Swept Clean From The Face Of The Earth ??

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

That would work in my book!!

teabag09

I went out during Isabel to refuel our generator. The wind was maybe one hundred miles per hour in gusts. IT WAS ABSOULTLY EVIL. I can't describe just how awful 80 to 100 mph wind driven rain and the wind feels. To remain standing was almost impossible and in gusts you have to go to your knees with either you butt or head facing the winds direction or it will take you away. I hope these folks in the way of this monster get the hell out of the way. Behind Irma is Jose so it starts all over again. Prayers, prayers. Mike

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

I don't know... They may revisit this.. I have a suggestion.

Category 6: Cataclysmic damage will occur on a Stupid scale. 175 mph or higher winds. GTF out of its way.

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Rain feels like BB shot in the face. You need goggles and a muffler to stay out in it.

Mike Easterday

Why do we keep rebuilding in disaster zones ? You want to live there deal with the problems!

GmanTerry

If you have ever ridden a motorcycle, you know, rain feels the same. Like road gravel hitting your hands. I always wore a helmet with a face shield so I never got hit in the face. To get caught in a surprise rainstorm with no shelter is painful.


Semper Fi

boatbob2

I hope,that Irma IF,it hits DC,while congress is in session,has a windspeed of 200 MPH,Donald needs all the help he can get,draining that swamp........

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Rode a small bike while in Austin TX, but never in the rain....and in those days there was not a whole lit of rain...

teabag09

And then there was Camille, flattened Mississippi, continued north and destroyed the mountain areas of Georgia all the way through Virginia's mountains. There are no non-danger zones with these monster except maybe Kansas but then they have tornados.
A cat 6, begin loading the animals two by two. Mike

Carol Kelly

That's what we do. Our life is here, friends, family, home or mortgage. Some of us can't start over somewhere else. What would you advise?