"Only A Category 1 Hurricane" - 49 Beachfront Buildings Declared Unsafe In Volusia County Alone [View all]

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Above, damages to Florida coastline from Nicole show that even minor storms are now capable of major damages, if they are riding on higher sea levels, in a warmer atmosphere.

My video below was made in 2013, not long after Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall as barely a Cat 1 storm, devastated the Northeast. Scott Mandia’s quote is the one that sticks in my mind – “Now storms that technically aren’t major hurricanes are causing major hurricane damage.”

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