Cyclone Ita downgraded

Ita was rated a monster category 5 storm, came ashore as a 4 on Friday night and was a 1 on Saturday afternoon local time.  It was a 1 crossing my sister’s home and she did not even lose power.  There was no loss of life.

Modern weather forecasting is a wonderful thing that has saved countless lives.  The worst US storm I know of was the unnamed Galveston hurricane of 1900 that cost 6000 lives that would have been saved with current storm warning technology and information sharing.


I am grateful Ita quickly lost strength and did not cause any loss of life in Australia.  It could not have gone any better than that.

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