Bart wrote:


Ah the new Hurricane Strength Scale, Bart0, Bart1,....Bart5.

Hurricane Flora (1963) comes in as Bart5 (7000 or so deaths), dumb
National Weather Service only gave it a 3!

Cheers
Marty

Perhaps I should have chosen my words more carefully
Marty.

'sok Bart, perhaps I should have included a smiley, (at the risk of
offending Donal). On the other hand, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad
think to have a scale based on loss of life and destruction of property.

I think there's a few other elements at work here; better building
practices, better (i.e. earlier warnings) forecasting, better evacuation
plans, better communications. All factors that lead to less loss of
life.

Cheers
Marty