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Trump Hasn't "Ever Even Heard of Category 5" Hurricane (Original Post)
rsacamano
Sep 2019
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Botany
(70,559 posts)1. The man is a stone cold idiot.
Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on Florida and Louisiana in August 2005, causing catastrophic damage, particularly in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. Subsequent flooding, caused largely as a result of fatal engineering flaws in the flood protection system known as levees[3] around the city of New Orleans, precipitated most of the loss of lives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)2. Hurricane Andrew
which struck much closer to his beloved Mar-a-Lago in 1992 was a large Cat-5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew
appleannie1
(5,068 posts)3. You have to give him credit. He has learned that hurricanes are wet too.
He must have a headache from all that brain expansion learning all those things.
Bromwell
(123 posts)4. I think he does it to somehow frame his "presidency" as historic...
It's historic alright...but not b/c category 5 hurricanes exist. He's so simple....