It just means there’s a 1% chance of it happening in any year. So multiple things can happen that qualify. It has never meant it’s a once in 100 year occurrence.
Thats sort of like saying “I don’t believe in world records because they keep being broken”
In 2005 we had Katrina and Rita. But then Cameron seems to be a hurricane magnet. Laura was the last one we had and she stayed hurricane strength until reaching Arkansas.
Speaking of riding it out. We rode out Typhoon Hester in CHU LAI in 1971. 140mph winds. We couldn’t leave. But what I saw, keeps me from riding out another one on the coast. Fortunately, where our compound was, there was a 50 foot bluff protecting us from the storm surge.
Ever seen what a piece of tin can do, flying on edge at 140 miles per hour? You don’t want to.
This 100 year stuff is jsut something for gov types to say to make the public think all is well (since we just had the 100 yerar flood, hundred year hurricane, hundred year drought, hundred year tornado outbreak.).
In the last 100 years we’ve had Four Category 5 hurricanes make landfall in the United States
1935 Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (strongest on record to make landfall in the US)
1969 Camille - Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
1992 Andrew - Florida, and then Louisiana
2018 Michael - Mexico Beach, Florida
Plus both Katrina and Rita were Category 5 storms but dropped in intensity before they made landfall
So, I call that four 100 yeer storms since 1935.
And that’s not counting the dangerous storms like the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Audrey that took out Cameron in 1957, Katrina and Rita, of 2005, Laura of 2020, and of course my all time favorite (because it hit the fabled and all important new jerk city which was the most disastrous
Super Storm SANDY, which I might add, might not even make the news if it made landfall in Louisiana or Mississippi being such a weak storm. But of course, if it occurs in new jerk city, it’s a world disaster.
Hurricane…. its an old indian word for
GET THE HELL OUT OF DODGE!
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