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Paw Master [16214]
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Can you imagine 185 mph sustained winds with gusts over 200? I know that is
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Oct 28, 2025, 1:50 PM
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just within the inner core of the storm and you're talking only a few minutes of it. But what could withstand even a few seconds of it? Not much.
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Paw Warrior [4873]
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Re: Can you imagine 185 mph sustained winds with gusts over 200? I know that is
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Oct 28, 2025, 1:53 PM
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Not much, even if designed per MIami-Dade requirements.
If that same storm came up Tampa Bay (or just slightly north of the bay, it would be catastrophic. Well known property insurers would not survive it.
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Orange Elite [5520]
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Re: Can you imagine 185 mph sustained winds with gusts over 200? I know that is
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Oct 28, 2025, 1:56 PM
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I was watching one hundred day homes, one of those building shows and they just built a house in Tampa that supposedly can withstand sustained with of up to 225mph! It was built in stages in Georgia, shipped and reassembled in Tampa!
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National Champion [7303]
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They're building them all up and down the Texas coast.
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Oct 28, 2025, 1:59 PM
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Look like beach homes, built like NORAD bunkers.
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I travel to the SE Texas coast about halfway between Houston and
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Oct 28, 2025, 2:52 PM
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Corpus to visit family, and I've seen some new construction in the Palacios area that locals told me were designed for hurricane force winds.
Interestingly enough, there is an old hotel there...the Luther...built of wood that has sat right on Matagorda Bay for over a century, surviving every storm to hit. Even the old ranch home my Grandparents owned just north of the town survived hurricanes, while newer brick homes didn't. Strange how those storms behave.
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National Champion [7303]
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It's crazy -- one might even say providential -- what does
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Oct 28, 2025, 2:01 PM
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and does not withstand a bad storm like that one.
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Top TigerNet [29051]
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An Army Airborne Jumpmaster once told me the exit wind speeds
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Oct 28, 2025, 2:45 PM
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during our jumps from the C-141 Starlifters in Europe were from 150-175 MPH, and I mean you could literally see yourself blowing laterally at great force until the chutes deployed.
We used to joke that you had to keep your lips tightly sealed or else you'd either have a permanent smile or look like you'd been sucking basketballs after one of those jumps! I never cared for those C-141's, preferring the C-130's or Huey choppers, mainly because those wind speeds were super-sized b*tches in of themselves.
I feel for those folks on the islands having to deal with those hurricane winds.
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Tiger Spirit [9427]
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That storm will likely redraw the coastline in Jamaica.
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Oct 28, 2025, 3:01 PM
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No one alive has gone through anything like it.
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Oculus Spirit [42744]
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Re: Can you imagine 185 mph sustained winds with gusts over 200? I know that is
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Oct 28, 2025, 3:33 PM
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The only good thing is that this storm is built like Andrew, which hit South Florida in 1992. The really devastating winds are confined to an inner core that is maybe 30 miles wide. There will be areas of near total destruction but it will be confined to a relatively narrow band. We lived just outside Ft. Lauderdale when Andrew hit and right up to the last minute, it was expected to make landfall near Ft Lauderdale but suddenly took a turn to the south and hit the Homestead and Kendall areas of Dade county. This was about 30 miles from the processing plant I managed in Miami and the facility had virtually no structural damage but lost power for about 4 days. Some of our employees’ homes south of the city sustained total losses. I lived about another 30 miles north of the plant or 60 miles from the storm path and we didn’t even lose power. This storm looks very similar so at least the worst damage will be confined to a narrow path. Jamaica is about 146 miles long and 22 to 51 miles wide. Since the storm is approaching from the south it will hit the island broadside near the west end of the island so Montego Bay could see a lot of destruction but Kingston should be relatively safe. We were on St. Thomas for Hurricane Marylin in 1995 and it was awful. St. Thomas is a much smaller island (15 miles long and less than 2 miles wide) so there was literally no where on the island to go to avoid it. And afterwards, you are literally “on and island” so you have what you stocked in preparation if it doesn’t get destroyed and no power. We couldn’t even call our relatives in the states for about 4 days to tell them we were ok. Hopefully satellite and phone technology has improved so that isn’t the case in Jamaica. Pray for those folks. They will need it.
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Mascot [20]
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Re: Can you imagine 185 mph sustained winds with gusts over 200? I know that is
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Oct 28, 2025, 3:56 PM
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I live in Asheville.
Helene was enough with 40- 50 sustained and 90-100 gusts.
Whats going on down there...no and absolutely no. I cannot imagine what that must be like.
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