<p>has there been any hurricane in recent history whose winds have been 150+, let alone 175?
I know Andrew, Camile, and Hugo were around 150, but were there any hurricanes in the past around 175?</p>
<p>I think Linda in the Pacific was around 185. It never hit the U.S., though.</p>
<p>Only 3 in the history of record keeping have hit the US as a category 5 hurricane. This seems to be a pretty devastating hurricane. Does anyone know how close it is to the oil rigs in the Gulf or any pipelines? This is reminding me alot of “Oil Storm”. Anybody see that?</p>
<p>I was checking out the radars when I was at my airport, and it seems liek the storm will end up pretty close to the oil rigs.</p>
<p>Yeah, I just read something about many companies in the region having or planning to shut down several hundred thousand barrel a day oil refineries and many are evacuating from the rigs. So that can’t be too good for oil prices.</p>
<p>The hurricane that destroyed Galveston in 1900 was before they started measuring, but would have been a category 5. The entire island was submerged and almost one out of every six people was killed (6000 killed). In the aftermath, Galveston raised the level of the island 17 feet and built a protective seawall.</p>