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To: Tuxedo

I don't know. All the sensors failed in the path, so it will be up to post storm analysis. Andrew was still strengthening as it hit FL, this was slowly weakening or at least holding its own. That makes a definate difference.


74 posted on 08/29/2005 2:25:07 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: nwctwx
Andrew was still strengthening as it hit FL, this was slowly weakening or at least holding its own.

Andrew was also primarily a wind event - the topography of the Florida coastline where it hit didn't lend itself to large surge, and the storm didn't have much of a fetch. This one had winds as strong as Andrew until the last minute (which got a lot of water moving), and it had a very large fetch for a hurricane. So we're gonna see a lot of surge damage here.

99 posted on 08/29/2005 2:29:17 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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