Max Mayfield
Max Mayfield
Britt Max Mayfieldis a meteorologist who served as the director of the National Hurricane Center from 2000 to 2007. As director, Mayfield became a trusted voice in preparing for weather-related disasters, particularly those involving tropical storms and hurricanes...
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People need to understand that the greatest potential for large loss of life is from the storm surge flooding near the coastline,
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These temporary housing areas, well, the mobile homes and trailers in particular are not built to withstand hurricanes or even strong tropical storms.
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It just takes that one hurricane over your area that makes for a very bad year.
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We're very concerned. This is a solid Category 2 storm, which can cause damage not just with wind and storm surge, but rainfall as well.
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Don't just focus on the eye of the hurricane,
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You bet I'm worried about next year, and several years after that,
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We like to tell people, 'flee the water and hide from the wind,'
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The timing is certainly working in our favor, ... that potential for large loss of life.
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This is really scary. We're seeing 12-foot seas along the Louisiana coast already.
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Often when you get hurricanes moving like this in the eastern Gulf, we'll have some isolated tornadoes in the rain bands well away from the center,
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devastation along the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina is like nothing I have witnessed before.
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If Isabel stays close to our forecast track and if it does make landfall as a major hurricane, it has the potential for large loss of life if we don't take it seriously and prepare,
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We've brought the winds down a little bit here, but it's going over a warm eddy in the Gulf of Mexico tonight, ... We actually think it has a chance to strengthen again tonight and in the early morning hours.
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It's barely a tropical storm and we will likely downgrade that -- in fact I'm sure we'll downgrade that -- to a tropical depression within a couple of hours.