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Originally posted by TigerGirl52
I just want to let y'all know that I'm praying for everyone in San Antonio. I hear that all the rain and nasty weather we're getting is because of a category 5 tornado that hit Mexico. That could possibly be the cause of everything that's happening there too. Y'all keep safe!!!!!!!!!
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I used to live in San Antonio back in the late 1990s and remember very well the deluge back in '98. When the Olmos Basin gets to overflowing, there goes US 281! And the Riverwalk just barely escaped getting washed away - they had recently finished a flood control channel that keeps the floodwaters away from most of downtown.
BTW, hurricanes are rated Category 1 through 5 on a scale called the Saffir-Simpson scale. It's based on windspeed sopme other factors. The strength of a tornado is measured on the Fujita scale from F0 to F5. Because of the short duration of a tornado the estimated F-number is figured from the amount of damage caused. (Courtesy of the meteorology class I took at OU when I was an undergrad, which I promptly flunked!)
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