re: 2015 Season-Long Hurricane Thread - Watching Invest 96L

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4. Katrina (2005) - 60 miles to the west and BR would have been destroyed by strong Cat 3 wind gusts
5. Rita (2005) - Lots of rain, some wind

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Not sure why people still downplay Rita like it's a competition between the two.

Rita was a stronger hurricane than Katrina yet because SWLA and SETX didn't have levees that failed people have to downplay what a monster it was.

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Katrina attained Category 5 status on the morning of August 28 and reached its peak strength at 1800 UTC that day, with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 902 mbar (26.6 inHg). The pressure measurement made Katrina the fourth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time, only to be surpassed by Hurricanes Rita and Wilma later in the season; it was also the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico at the time. However, this record was later broken by Hurricane Rita.

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Both were tragedies and two of the strongest hurricanes ever so it's lame as hell to downplay either one as "some wind"