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It will be far worse where it hits in much warmer open water with the counter clockwise flow than near you. I shudder at what could happen in say Nantucket or the eastern end of Long Island with the right conditions. I personally saw the aftermath of Andrew in Miami and Katrina along the Mississippi coast. Even the CAT 1 that hit Galveston three years ago caused catastrophic damage from storm surge on the low lying parts of the barrier island.
Ike was a cat 2 with cat 4 storm surge.Rita was a cat 3 at edge of being a cat 4 but much less surge. The last cat 1 that hit near galveston was Hiumberto which did little dam as it also had little storm surge,One alos has to remmeber that galveston now has 13 foot more evation and a sea wall that high since the 1900 storm that helps. It was coastal beach communties nearby that were pretty much destroyed bu Ikes storm surge and even upwater way communities as far as 30 miles inland from flooding to 8 foot.
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