Shelly Fagan
1 min readAug 9, 2023

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You’re wrong.

In 2019, hurricane Dorian tied an 84-year-old record for strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane and became the fifth most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall. It had winds of 185 mph. And it’s due to get much worse.

Typhoon Tip had winds of 190 mph. Buildings can withstand up to 200 miles an hour. Therefore, any storm bigger than Tip will scour the coastlines and wipe out entire communities. Tip covered an area of 1300 miles. That’s the entire west coast of the US getting slammed over and over.

Tip broke a freighter in half, destroyed 27 bridges and 105 dikes, spawned 600 mudslides, 11,000 people lost their homes, another 22,000 were flooded from the rains.

Imagine losing 33,000 homes in one storm. Then realize we are talking about much bigger storms.

It’s not Hollywood, it’s history.

Of course, if you have a source that says we cannot have storms bigger than Tip, or that they won’t be as destructive, then kindly post it.

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Shelly Fagan
Shelly Fagan

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