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Message: [QUOTE="CONN78SEJ, post: 4043130, member: 10604"] Yes mostly, it’s very rare when a Cat 5 Hurricane hits the coastline with full Cat 5 intensity though there are several examples. In addition to the 1935 Labor Day Keys Hurricane, Hurricane Andrew did tremendous wind damage throughout central Florida and is one of very very few storms that intensified after landfall. Camille in 1969 also hit with tremendous Cat 5 wind damage and a 34 foot storm surge. The 1938 Hurricane that hit New England and killed 800 people on Long Island was a Cat 5 but weakened well before landfall, though gusts of 185 mph were still recorded in coastal Massachusetts. On a side note, in the aftermath of the 1935 Keys hurricane all the wind measuring devices were blown away however engineers calculated from the catastrophic damage that the winds approached 220 mph. The most intense hurricanes world wide were Patricia, Cyclone Zoe and Cyclone Winston (South Pacific) and Cyclone Monica (Australia). Patricia holds several measured records for barometric pressure (which is what causes the storm surge) and wind speed. If the 1935 Labor Day keys storm could have been measured by the technologies we have today it probably would have surpassed Patricia in the record books. [/QUOTE]