Are these areas not hardened against this sort of thing?
Humans can’t be “hardened” to a storm of this magnitude—we become powerless.
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“Are these areas not hardened against this sort of thing?”
The Georgia coast has largely been spared from the ravages of the major East Coast hurricanes of the past 25 years. Mandatory evacuation a new phenomenon for many residents from Brunswick to Savannah.
It says that area hasn’t been hit by a hurricane like this for 118 years.
To the contrary, methinks many buildings are built to get washed away.
Comes a point where you get hit so hard that losing it all is cost effective.
Much more than NJ was. Any new construction in the past 20-30 years requires hurricane resistant windows, tie downs on roofs etc. The windows are pretty cool. To test them, they fire a 2X4 from a cannon. The wood can break the glass but cannot penetrate. Then they bombard the window with undulating pressure for a long period of time, again, the glass is broke but cannot come out of the frame.
I haven’t seen these tests live, but have been in the facilities where they are performed, once was just last week.
I think code requires these windows within 3 or 5 miles of the coast.
Man against nature...man loses every single time.
Planned for the 100 yr. event...incoming event is a 500 yr. worst case scenario rainfall... phttt...we weren’t even a country back then!
This is going to be very, very bad and may be worse than a Katrina due to the longevity along the coast.
Gee, all those folks won’t be voting in their normal polling locations, likely no records to check against an absentee ballot...uh...let’s not let a crisis go to waste. /semi-sarcasm
Obama and team FEMA handle this well, it will throw the election. They handle it badly...?
Most areas are rated for category 3 or brief category 5.
Like the article said, one that brushed the coast at cat5 has never been seen by anyone currently alive.
I found this interesting from one of the warnings.
“Residents
in high-rise buildings should be aware that the winds at the top of
a 30-story building will be, on average, about one Saffir-Simpson
category higher than the winds near the surface.”
-—Are these areas not hardened against this sort of thing?-—
I would suggest go visit the next hurricane event and all your questions will be answered...
You can’t harden a structure to sustain 130+ mph winds unless you build it like a ground level concrete bunker.
You must be thinking only wind. When you are 3 feet above sea level and the storm surge is 12 feet with a 12 to 18 feet wave on top of the storm surge, there is nothing left. This is where most of the damage is done. Millions of trees will be felled, too. The wind is strong enough to hurl objects into buildings and throw trucks into swimming pools.