I figured this would be a good discussion.
Watching Josh's video, and seeing the aftermath, it puts to bed one thing Ive always questioned in my mind. A Upper end hurricane wind wise cannot match upper end tornado damage, and the gap is pretty wide.
Hurricane Dorian was just about as strong as they get with perfect conditions regarding maximum wind speed getting to the ground. Strengthening hurricane along with about as low land friction as you can have. While yes, the building code is high in the Bahamas, I was kind of underwelmed by the vehicle damage and the tree damage. Not saying it wasnt extreme for a hurricane, but I honestly expected more from the 200+mph gusts.
Whether its the upword motion or the EF scale is indeed much too low on windspeed estimates. This effectively kills Spann's arguement that straight line wind and tornado wind does the same damage.
Watching Josh's video, and seeing the aftermath, it puts to bed one thing Ive always questioned in my mind. A Upper end hurricane wind wise cannot match upper end tornado damage, and the gap is pretty wide.
Hurricane Dorian was just about as strong as they get with perfect conditions regarding maximum wind speed getting to the ground. Strengthening hurricane along with about as low land friction as you can have. While yes, the building code is high in the Bahamas, I was kind of underwelmed by the vehicle damage and the tree damage. Not saying it wasnt extreme for a hurricane, but I honestly expected more from the 200+mph gusts.
Whether its the upword motion or the EF scale is indeed much too low on windspeed estimates. This effectively kills Spann's arguement that straight line wind and tornado wind does the same damage.