re: Cat 5 question

Kind of like a pitbull

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It had SOMETHING to do with storm strength or else it couldn't have sat there that long. Further your post proves my point, perceived "wind" strength is hardly the real threat inland.

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It sat there that long because it was caught between 2 high pressure systems. It was downgraded to a TS 48 hours after it made landfall. The area that got affected by its strength was Rockport and Port Aransas where it came inland. Vicotria is probably 100-150 miles inland from where it came inland and didn't get that much damage

I live about 50 miles straight shot from the coast and Andrew, Lily, and Rita passed pretty close to my house and didn't cause any substantial structural damage.

I feel like people aren't actually reading my posts.

If all he's concerned about is wind damage then 200 miles inland should be find if he's cool with cat 2 winds.

It all depends on the side of the storm he is on. With a cat 5, a 180 mph MONSTER, if it moves fast, he's going to lose power, water.

If it slows down he runs into the issue of flooding.

It's more complicated than just wind. I can't believe this actually has to be stated on a Louisiana based message board.

ETA: and no, none of us have been through a storm like this unless you were in homestead Florida in 1992. And even that one didn't hit 180. We're basing the answer to his question on far less powerful storms.

Depends on the actual size of the storm, too.

Andrew was a Cat 5 when it hit Florida but tropical storm force winds only extended about 100 miles and storms will lose power fast once they hit land.

Katrina was massive in addition to powerful.

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I feel like people aren't actually reading my posts.

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they probably stopped reading when you went full retahrd with 400miles. Ridiculous.

The OP didn't specify winds retard.

Nor did he define "somewhat safe"

Nor has anyone been through a 180+ mph storm.

So lick my taint arse basket

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When Opal came through Alabama/GA/TN in the 90s, we lost about 100 trees in our relatively small neighborhood in metro Atlanta. Schools were closed for several days.

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Same here. We packed up and drove to west Alabama. Came home 4 days later to 3 trees down on our property. Several neighbors lost multiple trees as well. The only reason we left was to take care of my grandmother. She was partially paralyzed and if she lost power it was going to be rough on her and her caretakers. Thankfully their small town was fine.

That was the year I learned to operate a chainsaw. Dad went and bought a small one to cut up the trees for firewood.