12 Sep 2017 1:27 pm
Like I just told Clem, tell that to the people in the US Virgin Islands, St Marten, Barbuda and Cuba.crimsongulf » 11 Sep 2017 9:36 am » wrote:Latests info as of 22 min ago says that is not likely. As far s Irma, it has turned out to be more fizzle and drizzle than the armageddon storm it was forecast to be.
The only reason it lost some steam before it hit Florida was because it hit more of Cuba than was expected and that slowed it down.
It wasn't as bad in Miami as they thought it would be, but the Keys got hit pretty hard.
25% of Florida Keys houses were destroyed, 65% suffered damage and as many as 15 million Floridians have no power.
Then there is the massive flooding in Jacksonville, and now Charleston.
I would hardly call that fizzle, and I really don't understand this need to downplay the impact of the storm.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/us/irma-d ... index.html