I find it odd that it took until the storm making landfall for this to get into the news over here.
That aside, I think this may have been the strongest tropical system to make landfall since we started tracking tropical systems. Hell one of the readings I saw had it at 8.1 on a scale that only goes up to 8.
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380km/h winds would be pretty dang scary!
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And look at the size! Hell look at the eye, it was really well formed.