"Cat 2" Anthony hits, destroying 20,000-40,000 homes along the beaches and just inland -- and doing close to $3,000,000 damage!! What do you suppose is the average home value along the beaches? $50,000? I don't think so. $3 million dollars damage would be caused by a single severe thunderstorm. The damage shown is certainly not Cat 2 damage, more like Cat 4.
But it gets worss. First case is a couple who are rushing to get ready before the storm hits. The man says it's supposed to hit in 10 minutes, we need to get to the shelter! A few seconds later, a few raindrops hit their windshield in slow motion. They look at each other in a panic - it's HITTING NOW! Within seconds, they're in the eye of the storm.
Then a body hits their car. Turns out it's a surfer who was picked up by a vortex 2-3 miles away and carried by 150 mph winds then dumped on their car. Cut to some guy using AccuWeather's doppler radar who tracks the vortex that carried the surfer. But wait, the fall didn't kill him. It was "hurricane horizontal rain"! Yep, as the surfer was screaming, "hurricane horizontal rain" was driven down his throat and drowned him.
Other case was a woman who was apparently shot in her bedroom. Here, it was found that she liked to target practice with her pistol in the back yard, and she cleaned up the spent bullets and put them in a tray outside. The 150 mph hurricane winds picked up a bullet from the tray, drove it at 200 fps through a window in/out her neck and into a wall. Sounds reasonable, right?
Satellite imagery of the storm showed something like Andrew, not at all a Cat 2 storm.
There were probably other things I forgot. It's clear that they didn't bother to consult with any meteorologist who knew a thing about hurricanes. Maybe one of those west coast mets helped out?
Oh, and one more thing, the last words in the show were the lady detective saying "something good" about hurricanes --- "At least hurricanes alleviate global warming."
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