Hurricane rating system fails to account for deadly rain
TRENTON— When meteorologists downgraded Hurricane Florence from a powerful Category 4 storm to a Category 2 and then a Category 1, Wayne Mills figured he could stick it out. He regrets it. The Neuse River, normally 150 feet away, lapped near his door in New Bern, North Carolina, Sunday even as the storm had “weakened” further.People like Mills can be lulled into thinking a hurricane is less dangerous when the rating of a storm is reduced. But those ratings […]
