I am sure the costs will be socialized again again when insurance companies go belly up. Taxpayers are definitely going to have to pony up for all the destroyed rental properties and second homes down there.
We don’t fund education, especially in hurricane prone states. These are the same places that are told the media is full of lies and that things like sea level rise and juiced hurricanes are a myth. It’s getting worse and worse. Expect more disasters like this where people don’t listen and just yap on social media about their surprise neighborhood destruction.
It looks like a cat 4 to me. Not perfect eyewall, not in the 920s or lower, good but not great IR, and at best borderline recon obs before the planes left.
weenies want it to be a 5 because they have a parasocial relationship with the hurricane.