Photo of Garland/Rowlett, Texas after an EF4 tornado blew through in 2015.

[Miles Archer]

What 185 mph wind looks like should strike fear into the hearts of anyone.

The gusts for the Category 5 storm have reached 185 mph. That’s the equivalent of an EF4 tornado sitting on an area – nonstop for hours. To put that into perspective, the photo below is of the damaged sustained by residents of Garland/Rowlett, Texas after an EF4 tornado blew through in 2015.

Miami isn’t prepared — no one is.

Already, the city of Miami is being forced to raise their roads to accommodate rising waters creeping into their city. A report from The Atlantic details that the last major hurricane to hit Miami was in 1926 and 400 people were killed. Back then, the city boasted 100,000 residents, but today that number is more like 6 million.

President Donald Trump only barely understands the crisis.

During a meeting with Democratic and Republican leaders, Trump acted as if he had some special insider information on the severity of Hurricane Irma. All he could manage was to tell them it is “not good.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/here-are-6-terrifying-reasons-to-fear-miami-wont-survive-hurricane-irma/

[procon]

1. I'm in zero point earthquake country on the San Andreas Fault, and we only get dust devils.

They are like a mini-tornado, usually only a few feet wide and the winds are barely strong enough to shuffled around debris on the ground like leaves, paper, they will cover you with dirt if you get caught in their path, so of course kids love 'em.

We occasionally get a wind shear that will carve a destructive path at ground level. When one of these downburst winds hit my little community a few years back, the local fire station recorded the wind speed at 85 mph before the gauge snapped off. The wind flattened 100ft long poultry barns, ripped the roofs off buildings, tore down fences and snapped off power poles. While it only lasted maybe 20 minutes, the noise was deafening, the blowing rain, dirt and debris made visibility zilch.

Very scary. I sure wouldn't want to go through hurricane force winds that lasted for hours. The unrelenting fears and stress would probably give me a heart attack. I hope people listen to the warnings and try to get out, and TPTB better have the systems in place to handle mass evacuations.