Belle Lechat
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How could anyone forget that year? As bad as Katrina was, we know the real catastrophe was the levee failure. Actually, Rita was stronger for us in Baton Rouge than Katrina, as we were on the East side. Even with all of that, the image of Wilma hitting Cozumel was sobering. She had that pinhole eye with gusts of 200mph.2005 consisted of 15 hurricanes of which eight became major hurricanes with four of those reaching category 5 status. It was the first time a season had exceed 21 named storms with a record 28 tropical cyclones named in a season since 1933. With 15 hurricanes this also set a record, beating out the old record of 12 from the 1969 season.
This drop is just insane.
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(The winds were so strong they may have been responsible for killing the instrument, resulting in it no longer transmitting below 2,000 feet...... (Perhaps meso vortices or a tornado?)