{"id":32325,"date":"2018-09-14T18:16:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32325"},"modified":"2018-09-14T18:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T18:16:26","slug":"not-all-category-1-storms-are-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32325","title":{"rendered":"Not all Category 1 storms are alike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hurricane-Florence-1015897.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32326\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hurricane-Florence-1015897-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hurricane-Florence-1015897-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Hurricane-Florence-1015897.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have learned something while watching the non-stop media coverage of Hurricane Florence as it pounds the coasts of North and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>It is this: Not all hurricane categories can be judged by the same parameters.<\/p>\n<p>Florence blasted ashore overnight as a Category 1 hurricane. Category 1 supposedly is the least damaging, least threatening of these storms, which can be labeled as high as Category 5.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal: Florence brought a lot of water with it. Weather forecasters are saying it could dump as much as 3 feet of rainfall on the Carolina coast.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit of a surprise to me. My family and I once endured a Category 1 hurricane when we lived in Beaumont, Texas. Hurricane Bonnie made landfall while blasting ashore from the Gulf of Mexico in 1986. Bonnie was considered &#8212; even in the moment &#8212; to be a somewhat <em>tepid<\/em> event. Yes, it brought some heavy wind &#8212; about 85 mph sustained winds and occasional gusts of around 100 mph. However, the rainfall wasn&#8217;t nearly as heavy as what we&#8217;re seeing right now along the Carolina coastline.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of residents throughout the Golden Triangle lost power. Ours was out for just a few hours. Others endured <em>days<\/em> without any electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Rainfall? Flooding? I don&#8217;t recall anywhere near the deluge that&#8217;s been brought by Hurricane Florence.<\/p>\n<p>So, when they say a hurricane is a &#8220;mere&#8221; Category 1 event, that all depends on so many other factors that accompany such a storm as it blasts the coastline.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take Hurricane Bonnie over Hurricane Florence any day of the week.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have learned something while watching the non-stop media coverage of Hurricane Florence as it pounds the coasts of North and South Carolina. It is this: Not all hurricane categories can be judged by the same parameters. Florence blasted ashore overnight as a Category 1 hurricane. Category 1 supposedly is the least damaging, least threatening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not all Category 1 storms are alike<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8006,3323,8012],"class_list":["post-32325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-hurricane-florence","tag-noaa","tag-nws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32327,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions\/32327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}