"Dylan Smith" wrote:
ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED.

Bull****.

Not at all. If the hurricane had remained a category 5 storm,
overpressures of 4-5 psi could be expected. This is sufficient to
destroy
a timber frame building. It's about equivalent to the blast that would
be felt about 2.5 miles from a 100kt nuclear explosion.

Well, it says, "ALL." Hurricane damage simply doesn't work that way.
It is freakishly spotty even in a very bad storm.

Fortunately, it seems to have lost strength when it made landfall.

Yes. If it had come ashore with a central pressure of 902 mb, things
could have been far worse than even the catastrophic damage we are
seeing.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM