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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Katrina hit NO at 130, a strong category 3.

No, it didn't. It made landfall Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, as a category 3. New Orleans saw winds of around 95 mph.

Katrina made landfall Aug. 29 with top sustained wind of about 125 mph, not the 140 mph that was calculated at the time, the hurricane center said in its final report on the hurricane.

New Orleans was on the storm's west side, which normally has weaker wind. Although an accurate reading of the highest wind in the New Orleans area was made difficult by the failure of measuring stations, a NASA facility in eastern New Orleans measured sustained wind of about 95 mph, the report said.

It's all moot, anyways. Katrina still still produced a category 5+ storm surge -- large hurricanes often produce surges equivalent to that of a smaller storm with a much higher wind speed.

tw is back on his major "bury Florida's power, not our soldiers" protest rant, again. Who can argue with him after all those hurricanes he's had to endure and all the evacuees he's helped?