Welcome to the forum!!! I'm not trying to be harsh, but...
You can kind of look at the photos and videos and realize it was a *little* bit more than a Category 1 hurricane. Maybe the Airforce staged a mock disaster for a drill, showing those planes tossed around and flipped upside down? Miles of coastline wiped out? House after house after house submerged? Power outages up through Georgia in conjunction with the storm? Flooding through the Carolinas?
If not a major hurricane then what event does "somebody" think caused this disaster? Or, does "somebody" think that all the destruction is actually staged on a movie set in Arizona and that today is just a regular ho-hum day in Mexico Beach?
Maybe these questions were answered in the yb7 html but I tend to stay away from links I don't know about and from people who suddenly appear in my presence. I'm sure you understand.
Hello, Thank you for your response.
Their assertions are NOT that there was no hurricane. That there has been consistent over exaggeration of the storms. There were people on a forum who were monitoring the wind speeds during the entire time and nobody could find NOAA data that was consistent with a Category 4. There was obviously a hurricane.
The assertions are that the damage at Mexico Beach Fl were mostly caused by the surf. Windows remain in tact. You see video's when the whole place was flooded causing most of the destruction. Similar photo's from other hurricanes, show tree's that were totally snapped and uprooted. There are alot of tree's standing still but I noted that Palm Tree's do not snap. They are more likely to get lifted out of the ground.
I've looked at other Florida towns for photo's but can't find much. Panama city looks like hit got it by a hurricane but very recoverable. And the other assertion is that it went from Cat. 4 to tropical storm in record time.
It also doesn't explain why none of us could find winds consistent on Ventusky and Windy. I did find wind gusts up to 113 kts but not sustained winds.
The weather monitoring equipment can't withstand 80 mph winds? If that's the case, where are they getting the data from?
The buoy's I posted an other nearby do not show winds beyond 30 kts. That doesn't make sense even if it was a Cat 2 or 3?
It looks like a hurricane to me. But I have to prove my case. There has to be some data that somebody captured during the storm or records that show historical wind speeds? This is the 21st century. If MSM is getting the raw data and forecasted models from NOAH, then NOAH's data should have reflected it in real time or at least be some record.
I can't respond to them with wise guy comments. Very data oriented people. Is Mexico Beach the ONLY place that got "wiped out" from a cat 4 storm? Must be photographic evidence of other places?