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.