Posted on 08/28/2011 2:19:34 PM PDT by veritas3
This is absurd. The only thing that made Irene potentially more destructive than any other storm is the path it was taking - going up the coast with its eye just off shore so it doesn’t weaken and is able to maintain hurricane strength as it goes up the coast. Otherwise if it had just came straight inland it would have fizzled out in short order.
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