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Originally Posted by Pondboy
Hurricane Hugo marched inland 235 miles to hit Charlotte NC with 80 mile per hour SUSTAINED winds. We’re 45 miles from the coast.
Granted, the weather service always goes on the high side for wind gusts, and we have been lucky that they have not been as strong. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.
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Unless your house is on the historic side, it's rated for 110mph winds. If you're in a concrete block house, you'd need a cat5 TORNADO to blow it away.
I went through three cat 5 hurricanes in Houston, in a brick-frame 20-year-old house that was not built to any windstorm standard at all. The eye of Rita went directly over my house, 80 miles from the coast. The only damage was it knocked down a section of privacy fence with a rotted fence post.
A cat 5 is barely a cat 1 after 80 miles. 80 mph is cat 1. I've seen 70 mph STRAIGHT winds many times, growing up in Oklahoma.
We'll be fine.