Is Hurricane Matt Katrina junior?

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140 mph winds and increasing, going to hit Florida bad and the south eastern coast. Florida governor said power outages will happen and will take days to fix. Panhandle seems like the only safe place in Florida to me.

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This is the first I've heard of this storm. Sounds dangerous.

Heard the above on fox

Katrina was a cat 3 when it made landfall in La. But that being said any hurricane is bad. New orleans is below sea level so the flooding and bulk of the damage came from broken levees. To compound matters new orleans is most accessed by bridges and the twin span was damaged. Had there been no levee breach the damage would have been much less.

Good luck florida im praying it turns back into the atlantic

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Katrina was a cat 3 when it made landfall in La. But that being said any hurricane is bad. New orleans is below sea level so the flooding and bulk of the damage came from broken levees. To compound matters new orleans is most accessed by bridges and the twin span was damaged. Had there been no levee breach the damage would have been much less.

Good luck florida im praying it turns back into the atlantic

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this is what most people don't realize, the storm of Katrina wasn't bad. It hit some bad spots in Mississippi that weren't prepared for a hurricane and the levees broke doing more damage Florida sees storms like Katrina nearly every year without much issue.

New Orleans should have never been built back without building it up higher instead of rebuilding under sea level in a bay.

To answer the question of the OP, Florida is just better prepared for hurricanes than the idiots in charge of Katrina areas and will fair much better unless it just gets crazy. My buddies with Alabama Power have already been put on notice that they will ride out as soon as they get the call, I am sure Asplundt has been put on notice too to go down cutting trees out of the way. Florida is a machine when it comes to that stuff.

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Florida sees storms like Katrina nearly every year without much issue.

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Wut?


I know it was jsut a Cat 3 when it made landfall, and the damage in NOLA gets all the exposure, but the Mississippi coast was devastated by Katrina. The storm surge was catastrophic because it was a Cat 5 as it headed towards the coast. Yes, the geography of NOLA played a huge role in the damage there, but let's not downplay the strength and impact of that storm in other areas.

There are not storms like Katrina hitting Florida nearly every year. That is a ridiculous thing to say. It's been a few years at least since a major hurricane has hit Florida.

There have not been 9 Cat 5 hurricanes make landfall in Florida since 2000. There have been 9 Atlantic hurricanes reach Cat 5 since 2000, but not all of them made landfall in Florida.

Isabel - Didn't impact Flroida
Ivan - Hit Florida and Alabama as Cat 3.
Emily - Didn't impact Florida
Katrina - Was just a Tropical Storm when it hit Florida
Rita - Didn't impact Florida
Wilma - Cat 3 when it hit Florida.
Dean - Didn't impact Florida
Felix - Didn't impact Florida
Matthew - current one. Cat 3

So by my count there have been 3 major hurricanes hit Florida since 2000, with the last one before Matthew being Wilma in 2005.

Not even close.

Hugo and Katrina were on a whole nother level from this glorified storm.

Ummm....you are so clueless and off base it's laughable. Katrina wasn't bad on the Mississippi coast because of the houses. The Mississippi coast has endured arguably the 2 strongest storms and largest storm surges the United State has ever experienced. Katrina's surge dwarfed (was at least double) what Matthews was. Ivan which made landfall in Alabama produced the highest wave height ever recorded in a storm. Those storms dwarfed most of the storms that threatened the Atlantic Coast of Florida. Andrew being an extreme exception.