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That is scary. Those poor people, the devastation of Katerina was just a dress rehearsal compared to what Dean is doing to the Yucatan.
The damage this storm does where the eyewall comes onshore will look very much like what happened to Homestead, Florida with Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The storm intensity is similar, as is the forward movement, the nature of the eyewall itself, as well as the type of terrain it will be moving over. Not good at all.
The damage will be mainly wind damage, as most of the cities are along a highway that runs parallel to the shore about 20 miles inland. Thus we should not see entire cities wiped out by the storm surge like what happened in Mississippi during Katrina. Like Homestead, FL, these towns are far enough inland that they should escape most of the surge. However, the winds in this storm will be vicious, just as Andrew's were, and will cause extensive structural damage well inland as was the case in south Florida in 1992.
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~Nick
Misunderstood since 1979