Yes, Harvey looks to be going after Carla's destruction record. Carla was a cat 5 1961 hurricane, but between 4 and 5, the destruction is about the same as far as ordinary folk see it. There's some talk about Harvey even changing the coastline from all the damages.
Yes, the Mayor of CC told people that elected to ride it out to put their names and SS numbers on their arms with black sharpie. Not a joke at all, many may die if they remain.
I am not liking the computer modeling on the proposed paths shown for Harvey. I am not a trained weather scientist, but many models are showing the hurricane to double back almost along it's original path in and bouncing along the coast towards the east. That seems wrong, the storm almost that tightly backing off the land like that.
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