Harvey Deluging Houston Heads for Own Spot in Hurricane History
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Harvey came on the Texas shore as a Category 4 hurricane evoking comparisons to Katrina, Ike and Sandy. But it’s proven to be a very different beast.
While the public often ranks hurricanes by wind speed, thanks to a traditional scoring system known as the Saffir-Simpson scale, a tropical cyclone has more than one way to kill. Two of the deadliest can’t be measured in terms of miles-per-hour wind speeds, and are all but invisible to that classification.