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Re: HurriScale
Tue Jul 24 2007 12:17 PM

As you've eluded to, trying to forecast wind damage gets pretty complex when you also take foliage and "soil condition" into account, as we found in central FL (2004). A great amount of the wind damage occurred due to fallen trees and weakened ground and root systems. Whatever survived Charley was weakened and more prone to damage, or to cause damage to structures. The entire landscape gets changed across an area hit by a major hurricane, and this likely increases the potential for damage in the future. Likewise, as many experts have pointed out, development along the coastal areas has vastly increased the $$ potential for devastating wind damage due to tropical cyclones.

I think we're doing pretty good just to be able to estimate the features and characteristics of a hurricane! Trying to come up with a standard correlation to the extent of wind damage in any given area is nearly impossible.

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
HurriSheet... Intensity and Surge Estimations from Pressure	danielw	Tue Jul 24 2007 12:17 PM
Re: HurriScale	dem05	Mon Jul 23 2007 01:08 AM
Re: HurriScale	Hootowl	Thu May 03 2007 07:10 AM
Re: HurriScale	Lamar-Plant City	Tue May 01 2007 04:55 PM
Re: HurriScale	IMTechspec	Sat Jul 21 2007 11:48 PM
Re: HurriScale	RevUp	Tue Jul 24 2007 12:17 PM
Experimental Wind Loading Data	CoconutCandy	Tue Jul 24 2007 08:40 PM
Re: HurriSheet... Intensity and Surge Estimations from Pressure	danielw	Tue Apr 14 2009 08:01 PM
Re: HurriSheet... Intensity and Surge Estimations from Pressure	danielw	Wed Apr 22 2009 02:16 PM
Re: HurriSheet... Intensity and Surge Estimations from Pressure	Storm Hunter	Sat May 16 2009 01:53 PM
Re: HurriSheet... Intensity and Surge Estimations from Pressure	danielw	Sun May 17 2009 10:00 AM
Re: HurriScale	danielw	Thu May 03 2007 01:58 AM
Wind Loading and the Saffir-Simpson Scale	CoconutCandy	Fri Jul 20 2007 09:05 AM
Re: Wind Loading and the Saffir-Simpson Scale	audienceofone	Fri Jul 20 2007 10:01 AM
Re: Wind Loading and the Saffir-Simpson Scale	Ed Dunham	Fri Jul 20 2007 05:54 PM
Wind Loading and the Saffir-Simpson Scale	CoconutCandy	Mon Jul 23 2007 07:43 PM
Re: Wind Loading and the Saffir-Simpson Scale	danielw	Mon Jul 23 2007 08:25 PM

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