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            <p>Meanwhile, as the storm moved over western Harris County, its most dangerous winds, well in excess of 120 mph even inland, would lash the Interstate 45 corridor, including Clear Lake, the Texas Medical Center and downtown.</p>

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            <p>Many older buildings could not withstand such winds.</p>

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            <p>Anything not tied down, from trees to mobile homes to light poles, would become missiles, surreally tumbling and flying through the air, flattening small houses, shattering skyscraper windows and puncturing roofs.</p>

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            <p>"Unfortunately, we're looking at massive devastation," said <a href="/search/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=solr&amp;query=%22Roy+Dodson%22">Roy Dodson</a>, president of the engineering firm Dodson &amp; Associates, which Harris County asked to model realistic "worst-case scenarios" for a major hurricane hitting the area.</p>

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            <p>Dodson's firm modeled more than 100 storms of varying power, speed and landfall. It concluded that a large Category 4 or Category 5 -- a storm only moderately larger than the four that struck Florida last summer -- would cause as much as $40 billion to $50 billion in damage. That's 10 times the cost of Tropical Storm Allison and approximately the city of Houston's entire budget for the next 15 years.</p>

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            <p>And this wasn't an academic exercise. Of the 17 Category 4 and Category 5 storms that have struck the United States since 1900, three, all Category 4 storms, have hit the Greater Houston area -- unnamed storms in 1900 and 1915 and Carla in 1961.</p>

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            <h4>Coastal development</h4>

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            <p>With considerable coastal development since then and lower elevations because of groundwater pumping, no one knows what will happen when a major storm hits. But what's clear is that models of a hurricane's three modes of destruction -- winds, storm surge and inland flooding from heavy rainfall -- offer little comfort.</p>

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            <p>With sustained winds between 131 mph and 155 mph, the power of a Category 4 storm exceeds that of most building codes.</p>

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            <p>Houston's commercial building rules call for structures to withstand three-second bursts of at least 110 mph, said <a href="/search/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=solr&amp;query=%22Dennis+Wittry%22">Dennis Wittry</a>, managing director of Houston Structural Operations at <a href="/search/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=solr&amp;query=%22Walter+P.+Moore%22">Walter P. Moore</a>, an engineering firm.</p>

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            <p>Newer skyscrapers, including many built during Houston's downtown boom in the '80s, were modeled in wind tunnels to determine their performance in extreme weather events. Most should survive the storm, Wittry said. And the downtown window loss like that experienced during Hurricane Alicia, a Category 3 storm that struck in 1983, actually could be less in a bigger storm.</p>

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            <p>That's because roofs that were then anchored by gravel -- which become bullets in high winds -- are now held down by specialized concrete that should not blow off, Wittry said.</p>

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            <p>Residential homes, built with less exacting standards and lesser materials, would fare worse.</p>

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            <p>"You'll definitely see more significant damage in residential construction," he said. "Lower-end homes, or some homes in older areas, would probably be completely destroyed."</p>

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            <p>Tie-downs, a structural device that prevents wind blowing over a structure, creating a vortex and sucking off the roof, have been mandatory only since the late 1980s, Wittry said.</p>

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            <p>Various studies of a large storm hitting the Houston area have estimated that 100,000 to 125,000 homes would be destroyed.</p>

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            <h4>20-foot wall of water</h4>

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            <p>More devastation would be caused by winds blowing over the Gulf of Mexico and pushing surface water inland -- creating up to a 20-foot storm surge. Such a wall of water would swamp most development near Galveston Bay, including Texas City, <a href="/search/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=solr&amp;query=%22Kemah+and+Johnson+Space+Center%22">Kemah and Johnson Space Center</a>. Varying levels of water would flood much of the area between Sam Houston Parkway and the bay.</p>

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            <p>On Galveston Island, the seawall could hold back much of the storm surge, but at some point the water would creep onto the island from the bay side. The island's highest point is just 22 feet above sea level.</p>

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            <p>Much like a river becomes deeper and more turbulent when it narrows, a storm surge also can increase in height and intensity when its source of water narrows. Dodson said this has profound implications for the Port of Houston. Some models ended with a 30-foot wall of water in the Ship Channel near the port's turning basin, he said. "It would be huge," he said. "It could overwhelm chemical storage facilities, water treatment plants and other sensitive areas."</p>

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            <p>The port's severe-weather plan calls for most cargo ships to exit the facility and weather the storm at sea in preparation for the possibility of flooded buildings.</p>

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            <p>Another, perhaps even-now-unanticipated effect is large waves accompanying the storm surge.</p>

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            <p>A waves expert at Texas A&amp;M University at Galveston, Vijay Panchang, said he and colleagues were surprised when they observed wave data associated with Hurricane Ivan shortly before it slammed into Alabama last September.</p>

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            <p>A wave-measuring buoy about 60 miles south of Dauphin Island, before it snapped, registered an average wave height of about 50 feet, Panchang said. That means the biggest waves were a staggering 100 feet tall. Such wave heights, according to his modeling, should only occur every 300 years or so.</p>

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            <p>Either Ivan's waves were a freak event, or hurricane forecasters may need to adjust their wave expectations for large storms in the warm Gulf waters.</p>

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            <p>"This is from a storm that hit only a few hundred miles to the east of us," he said. "There's nothing to say that another storm won't create really big waves for us."</p>

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            <p>These large waves caused by Ivan may have been as responsible, if not more so, than the storm surge for severely damaging the I-10 bridge bear Pensacola, Fla., Panchang said.</p>

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            <h4>Surprises after landfall</h4>

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            <p>Engineers and forecasters say the most unpredictable element of a storm comes after landfall, when it either dumps rain and floods creeks and bayous or moves quickly enough that relatively little rain falls.</p>

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            <p>Tropical Storm Allison probably isn't a good model for what to expect. The system was so poorly organized and slow moving that some hurricane forecasters say it wasn't a tropical storm. In some areas of the city, enough rain fell to classify Allison as a 10,000-year rainfall event. Still, because a large hurricane's storm surge likely would block the flow of bayou waters into Galveston Bay, any significant rainfall could back up into inland streets and homes quickly, Dodson said.</p>

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            <p>The last major hurricane most Houston residents remember was Alicia, which made landfall on the west end of Galveston Island in August 1983.</p>

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            <p>Unfortunately, planners say, as devastating as that storm was, it's a poor predictor of what to expect from a larger, Category 4 or bigger storm.</p>

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            <p>Alicia's highest sustained winds on land were measured at 96 mph. Most of the Greater Houston area received just 5 inches of rain. Storm surges across much of the area were less than 10 feet, although Seabrook measured 12 feet.</p>

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            <p>The storm spawned 23 tornadoes, killed 21 people and destroyed 2,300 homes.</p>

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            <p>"Alicia was a marginal Category 3," Dodson said. "Its rainfall doesn't come close to this area's top 20 historical floods.</p>

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            <p>"I guess what I'm saying is that I hope people don't ignore evacuation warnings because they remember that things weren't apocalyptic during Alicia."</p>

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            <p><a href="mailto:eric.berger@chron.com?subject=Hurricanes">eric.berger@chron.com</a></p>

    
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