We have one advantage that they don’t – sand. We don’t get the flooding, beyond the storm surge, that they experience because they have real dirt under their feet and mountains beyond the coast. If US hurricanes started hitting the East Coast north of mid-Georgia, you would see the same problems that Queensland is experiencing. The other difference is that we were getting multiple hits during dry years, so even where there was dirt, it had a lot of capacity to soak up the water.

The Navy is saying Yasi will be a maximum category 4 hurricane and then fade a little before coming ashore. We can hope for an eyewall replacement to take some of the starch out of the storm, but there is nothing else on the map that will affect it.