And was around 140-150 when it hit landfall and lower as it moved up the land mass. Still catastrophic by any measure obviously, but let's not exaggerate, it doesn't really need it.
You must have been incredibly unlucky to have gone through two Cat 4's, unless maybe you lived in the Caribbean? In my 11 years of living in Florida I have never met anybody who has had that misfortune.
My physical therapist has spent all her life living between South Florida and the Caribbean until she moved here 2 years ago and other than Andrew has never had anything over a brush with a Cat 2.
Plenty of people who have gone through Cat 1's on more than one occasion, but Cat 4's are still incredibly rare.
Today was Cat 3 as it made the central east coast, but the winds that hit us in Orlando were only Tropical Storm and Tropical Depression in Tampa and on the west coast.
I could say I went through a Cat 4, but it wouldn't really be accurate in anything other than name.
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