when a strong cat 5 directly hits miami its over it would destroy the whole city biscayne bay would flood the miami river basin total destruction just like 1935 or 1926.......... and with global warming storms are getting stronger and even bigger it will happen...
of course if a cat 5 hits or a 5.5.....220 mph winds on a full moon and during a high tide and perhaps stalls a little as it makes landfall it will be worse than new orleans....much worse it will be the end of miami as we know it for our lifetimes its comming
even wilma alomst blew my roof off...im not shitting you either and they say that was a cat2....my avocado tree came crumbling down...
we are above sea level but a 20ft surge would hit me sqaure in the head...I am not to far from the water....after hurricane andrew i saw 40-50 foot boats 1 block away from the marina....also boats came down on the pilings in the marina after the surge receded...crazy , sureal when u see it live
Not much. It's happened before. Albeit not since the 60's but then again the beach were heavily populated then too. SoFla is built on coral. A flooding tropical rain dries completely in 2 hours. Water won't be the problem. Just wind.
but we do have a flood zone which is east of I-95 and south of us1....voluntary evac zone....and like you said the water receded within minutes from the surge and the rain wasnt that bad ( dry hurricane wilma)..not like in NO where it was a cest pool for months, hence the real damage.....
I had no idea Wilma caused damage that far south. Scary how wide that storm was. Jeez, I'm every bit of 30-35 miles north of you and we got hit hard around here also. In fact several businesses on A1A off Galt Ocean Mile were destroyed. I figured it was a twister within the storm......
35 miles from my watering hole...cmon homey ill introduce you to some latinas that would rock ur world..when are you going to take me up on my drink offer??