This is Doug McIntyre, the editor in chief at Climate
Crisis 247.
Hurricane borough with Category five winds has flattened.
A number of the small islands in the Caribbean is
about to hit Mexico.
From there, it could turn N towards the direction of
Houston.
Fortunately, at that point, it won't be a Category 5
hurricane anymore.
But what if it were to hit a major center
of population?
Miami is vulnerable to hurricanes because of where it's located.
If you had a category five with 157 mph winds,
much of Miami would be destroyed.
Now why is that? Some of the newer buildings are
rated for 185 mph,
which means that they might survive,
but a lot of the places in Miami are over
100 years old and it means they wouldn't.
Another problem is skyscrapers. The windows and skyscrapers are not
rated for that level of wind and and additionally things
get thrown around during a hurricane.
A number of those windows would get broken.
The biggest problem, however, is the storm surge and a
Category 5 hurricane.
The storm surge can be 19 feet above sea level.
Miami and parts of it are basically below sea level,
which means that those parts of the city would be
flooded.
If a Category 5 hurricane hit Miami,
it would be catastrophic.