Was Hurricane Ida Really A Cat 4?

[rangerrebew]

 
Was Hurricane Ida Really A Cat 4?
August 31, 2021
tags: Hurricanes

By Paul Homewood

 

There’s two videos of Ida that I would recommend you watch. The second should follow on from the first, but you need to click on the link:
 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/very-very-bad-images-show-damage-flooding-hurricane-ida-n1277937

 

Both films were shot on the section of coast that took the brunt of the storm and surge.

It is clear from the first footage that the storm surge was no more than a foot, while the second set shows very little structural damage, either from winds or surge. If Ida really had been a Cat 4 storm at landfall, there would have been little left of these houses. Equally, they would have been flattened if the surge had been as high as threatened.

The sort of damage we see, uprooted trees, damage to less substantial wooden houses and so on, would be more compatible with a Cat 2 storm:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/was-hurricane-ida-really-a-cat-4/

[rangerrebew]

I don't have a degree in meteorology or have any advanced degrees in it but I did spend four years in the Naval Weather Service and had a lot of exposure to typhoons.  I have to agree with the author.  As I watched the news on the hurricane with my wife I made several comments about finding it hard to believe it was a cat 4 when it came ashore.  The damage and even the flooding was very light for that powerful of a storm (cat 4).  Remember when mayor Ray Nagin talked about the damage in "chocolate city" and how devastated everything was after Katrina?  I haven't heard about "devastated" anything.  Oh sure, some building were badly damaged, there was flooding, mobile homes may have been blown a few hundred yards, lines down, etc., but that is to be expected.  Hollyweird isn't complaining about the storm being racist, neither are Je$$ie Jack$on or Al $harpton, or whacked out environmentalists.  I think  inflated wind speeds were used for the benefit of global warming.

[Fishrrman]

Sound like someone "blew up" this storm all outta proportions...!

(in this age of climate change, the winds of propaganda blow more mightily than the howling storms...)

[cato potatoe]

It may have been a cat 4, but much of the force was spent on swampy and sparsely populated areas.  The area of the hurricane-force winds was several times smaller than Katrina, and the surge more limited as a result.

[libertybele]

??? Regardless. Over 1M were without power.  Picture is of a roadway washed out in MS.  I don't make light of any hurricane; the wind gusts, storm surge and the devastation are unpredictable. Billions of dollars of damage was done.  Whether it was a Cat 4 or a Cat 2 -- the damage was done.

[rustynail]

"That was four or five days ago!"

[libertybele]

"That was four or five days ago!"

Updated 7:52 AM ET, Tue August 31, 2021

No.
 Two people were killed and 10 others injured after part of a highway washed away Monday night near the town of Lucedale, Mississippi, officials said.
The incident occurred on the two-lane Highway 26 in George County, Trooper Cal Robertson of the Mississippi Highway Patrol told CNN on Tuesday. The washout was likely related to rain from Hurricane Ida, he said....

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/us/mississippi-highway-26-collapse-flooding/index.html

[libertybele]

[libertybele]

[Wingnut]

I think we can unmothball some of those Fema Katrina trailers.  Home away from home.

[libertybele]

I think we can unmothball some of those Fema Katrina trailers.  Home away from home.

Hey, it beats the heck out of putting a tarp overhead and letting the wind blow in.