The mayor may have been hoping....cause he knows what this is gonna do......

yeah, when ya think about it...to go from 140 to 120 is a serious drop...SOMETHING would have to cause that....and nothing is....it's a huge freight train.

Andrew had these winds.....but was smaller.....
I'd like to think we're out of the woods...but we're not.

Interestingly...the last storms to hit when they go north....about 5 of them....all kicked right before finally hitting land...

Ivan did.
Opal did,
Dennis did

most of them kick right....there must be some sort of pressure gradient difference that causes the hurricanes to do that...
wonder why the models and forecaster don't pick it up...maybe it's a coincidence...don't know.