Do you believe it would have been reclassified a Cat 5 from a Cat 4 if the homes hadnâ€™t been so shabbily built? This led to catastrophic destruction. The destruction in Mississippi from Katrina was just as bad if not worse. It occurred from storm surge with lower wind speed. The instruments during Camille 1969 broke after recording 175 mph sustained winds.

â€œMany people cried foul at the Cat 4 rating due the intense damage, they even brought in tornado specialists to explain what they were seeing because the hurricane scientists had no frame of reference for the devastation.â€

All they had to do was look at photos from the:

Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: 185-mph in Florida

Hurricane Camille (1969): 175-mph in Mississippi

Galveston, Texas (1900) 140-mph estimation, but where upwards to 12,000 people perished