please heed
the category of the storm does not predict how bad your area will be affected, the low ranked storms move more slowly, tend to stall and have more erratic paths–Fay is a textbook case–and can stall dumping tons of rain. that is also what happened with Dolly. people here still say what was worse was the unrelenting nature of hours and hours of pounding rain as the storm just sat here. the far greater danger and property damage after a hurricane is from water, not wind, and also that is what you are least likely to be insured for.
after a funeral yesterday up north and west of here, where the greatest damage was from Dolly, did an informal survey, 100s of acres still flooded, so much damage to crop and ranch lands, the only ones happy are the birds.
