re: "Hurricanes that didn't make landfall in a populated area were never heard of."
Of course, *every* hurricane that makes landfall does so in a populated area these days...
For several years after Katrina, global-warming nuts were using it as evidence that hurricanes were growing stronger. They conveniently forgot that Katrina was only a THREE (on a hurricane scale that runs from one to five.) The devastation it caused was primarily due to its trajectory, not its power.
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