Thought you all would enjoy reading this:

http://www.hurricanehunters.com/wilma.htm

Contains the typical "right stuff" level of understatement.

Well I'm not surprised about the Cat 3 level...she was still intensifying right up until landfall, and didn't seem to miss a beat while over land. As soon as I saw that I started wondering about the Bahamas. What is amazing is that if you look at the 1815Z wv image you can clearly make out the original 2 spiral bands she started with...that structure has stayed with the hurricane its entire life (yes I have a theory about the pieces of identity that hurricanes carry with them).