Matt Lanza

But it's still a category five hurricane at that point, right?

The impacts are going to be very limited to a very small area.

And, you know, if it's like far south Texas, where like almost nobody lives between the Rio Grande Valley and Corpus Christi, I shouldn't say nobody, very, very, very few people live between the Rio Grande Valley and Corpus Christi.

You get a storm that goes in there, it's mostly pasture.

That's what gets hit.

And, you know, then it's no big deal.

So when you're talking about categories, it's useful in the sense that it's nice to be able to scientifically categorize storms and understand trends and wind speed, things like that.

From a public communication standpoint, frankly, it sucks.

And it distracts, I think, sometimes from the thing.

Because, I mean, think about it.

Last year, we had Hurricane Beryl hit Houston.

It was only a Category 1 storm.

A lot of people will kind of shrug their shoulders at a Category 1 and be like,

all right, that's a storm, but I don't need to go running for the hills because of that.

And it comes in, it does billions of dollars in damage, does tremendous damage to the electrical infrastructure in a major metropolitan area.

It was a category one storm, but it was rapidly intensifying up to landfall.

So when you think about this, you have two different scenarios with hurricanes.

The storm is either intensifying as it makes landfall or the storm is weakening as it makes land.

fall, right?

It's almost never like perfectly stable.