ike did some crazy shit that i saw first hand due to it being huge and the cat 2 rating fooling people into thinking it was a nothingburger. larger storms drive a bigger surge as the wave fetch area increases by the square of the radius just as wind energy increases by the square of the velocity. i expect a similar thing to happen here when milton landfalls as a strong cat 3 but no one notices it has doubled in size.   reading. first hand experience. having giant trees fall on your house in the middle of the night and nearly kill your family even when you live 70 miles from the coast gets you interested in these sorts of things.
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