RED ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!! CATEGORY 5

lol you're funny I'm not directly in the eye on tornadoes they always hit in Port Neal 10 minutes from me or Moville 30 minutes from me.

 

I know Florida is a great place to live and everything. But these hurricanes are exactly the reason I would never live there.

 

Good Lord people, the world is not ending. Those people on the islands will be fine. They make their houses out of concrete. T he only reason we have such devastation is the build ing codes.

And as for looters, the gator left in the house should solve that. When we come back, lizard for dinner.

 

Florida is a beautiful state no doubt about that but too much water for me.I dated a guy from the keys his back yard was part of the ocean.I thought the keys was so beautiful but that ocean scared the heck out of me.

 

175 mph winds is scary stuff. Lets just hope it dies down before it hits. And poor Puerto Rico, too.

 

I know it the weather people are giving the keys till tomorrow to seek higher ground.

 

News said this is the second strongest storm ever over the Atlantic.

 

Saffir–Simpson scale - Wikipedia

Should a "Category 6" be introduced?
After the series of powerful storm systems of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, a few newspaper columnists and scientists brought up the suggestion of introducing Category 6, and they have suggested pegging Category 6 to storms with winds greater than 174 or 180 mph (78 or 80 m/s; 151 or 156 kn; 280 or 290 km/h).[7][15] Only a few storms of this intensity have been recorded. Of the 32 hurricanes currently considered to have attained Category 5 status in the Atlantic, 17 had wind speeds at 175 mph (78 m/s; 152 kn; 282 km/h) or greater and only 7 had wind speeds at 180 mph (80 m/s; 160 kn; 290 km/h) or greater. Of the 15 hurricanes currently considered to have attained Category 5 status in the eastern Pacific, only five had wind speeds at 175 mph (78 m/s; 152 kn; 282 km/h) or greater (Patsy, John, Linda, Rick and Patricia), and only three had wind speeds at 180 mph (80 m/s; 160 kn; 290 km/h) or greater (Linda, Rick and Patricia). However, most storms which would be eligible for this category were typhoons in the western Pacific, most notably Typhoon Tip in 1979 with sustained winds of 190 mph (310 km/h) and typhoons Haiyan and Merantiin 2013 and 2016, respectively, with sustained winds of 195 mph (314 km/h).[16]

According to Robert Simpson, there are no reasons for a Category 6 on the Saffir–Simpson Scale because it is designed to measure the potential damage of a hurricane to man-made structures. Simpson stated that "...when you get up into winds in excess of 155 mph (249 km/h) you have enough damage if that extreme wind sustains itself for as much as six seconds on a building it's going to cause rupturing damages that are serious no matter how well it's engineered."[3]

Saffir–Simpson scale - Wikipedia