Sam3o on 27 August 2012
| superchunk said: Hurricanes suck. Katrina was a cat 5 when it hit... this is predicted to be a cat 2. It should be far less impacting to the region and hopefully no major floods again. I can't wait for the day we can dissipate these types of natural disasters. |
Yes, Katrina peaked as Cat 5, infact it's one of the top 10 most intense hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic, but it only made landfall as Cat 3 (just shy of Cat 4). Still, even at that level, it was very large in size and caused cataclysmic flooding due to storm surge.
Regarding dissipating storms, they actually tried this back in the 1960s, but with little success... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Stormfury
