CA: Laura was not even within the “top 10” of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the U.S. Very fortunately, it was more of a wind and storm surge event than a wind event and the winds dropped down incredibly quickly once it made landfall. The biggest problems seem to be the electric distribution line outages in the Entergy and CLECO service areas. While any loss of life is tragic, compare with Katrina, Harvey etc. the residents of Texas and LA were very fortunate. Whats worrisome is that we’ve had several big storms in the past few years that were hyped as “monster storms” or the “biggest in history” and they turned out to be considerably less. People seem to be getting jaded to these predictions and more willing to “ride out the storm” rather than evacuating.
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