The efforts are needed to help a region devastated by the Category 5 Hurricane Katrina.
Rather bland language to talk about the online equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane.
The worst storm, a Category 5, has winds greater than 155 mph and can cause catastrophic damage.
Just three Category 5 hurricanes since 1900 have made landfall in the U.S., and two didn't cover much ground.
It was a year of more category 5 hurricanes than ever recorded.
The West coast here is bracing for a category 5 landing.
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This is a higher destructive potential than any hurricane observed since 1969, including Category 5 storms like Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Camille, and Andrew.
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The 2007 season was the weakest in five years, despite two hurricanes making landfall at Category 5 intensity, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The NOAA's National Hurricane Center said Katrina was a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of about 160 mph as it approached the Gulf Coast.
Last week, Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told CNN his agency had recently planned for a Category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans.
Some fluctuations, with an overall slight strengthening, is forecast for the next 24 hours, and forecasters said Gustav could become a Category 5 hurricane within that period.
The wiring is typically either category 5 Ethernet cabling or coaxial cable like that used for cable TV, or some combination of both, with other technologies mixed in.
The full-scale 1, 900 square foot house sits inside a steel cage rigged up with 60 pressure boxes which can simulate the effects of a Category 5 hurricane (see photos).
It had weakened significantly since being measured as a Category 5, with 180 mph winds, as it made its way between Cuba and the Florida Keys to the Louisiana coast.
Kiowa County Hospital, destroyed by a massive category 5 tornado in 2007 that damaged 95 percent of the town of Greensburg, Kansas, has been reconstructed with a 100 percent renewable wind energy system.
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But US forecasters warned that the latest storm could yet strengthen further after it passes Cuba, potentially growing to a Category 5 - the highest possible classification - as it moves across the Gulf of Mexico.
So while the median damage from Category 5 storms has been only somewhat larger in dollar terms than from weaker Category 4 hurricanes, the sample size of the fiercest storms is too small to be useful.
Katrina weakened slightly to a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds estimated at 145 mph as it made landfall early Monday, but it maintained a storm surge that is only generally found in category 5 storms.
Once a Category 5 storm, Katrina had weakened to a Category 3 storm with 127 mph winds when it made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005, between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of Mississippi River.
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And compared with last year, when the cost to install wireless Ethernet was 10 to 15 percent more than installing a wired system using Category 5 copper cable, wired and wireless cost about the same today, said Murphy.
Hurricanes Dean and Felix hit Mexico and Nicaragua respectively, marking the first time in history that two Category 5 storms made landfall in the same season since records started being kept in 1851, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The ramifications of an actual default, let alone the ongoing threats, including one made by Geithner as early as January 6, would be the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane slamming into Wall Street, followed by an EF4 tornado.
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Weinberg noted that Katrina had been a Category 3 hurricane before moving up to Category 5, and there are thus still concerns about whether New Orleans' partially-rebuilt levee system can contain a sudden storm surge and prevent the city from flooding.
Mr. SCHLEIFSTEIN: Well, the estimates before the storm for protecting the city from a Category 5 hurricane were that you would have to rebuild a large chunk of the city's levee system, add a whole bunch of rocks on waterways leading into Lake Pontchartrain and other parts of the area.
"We certainly understood the potential impact of a Category 4 or 5 hurricane" on New Orleans, Lt.
Having 5 Category winners and the overall award was a great boost for Kenyan journalists as a whole.
So, a Category 4 or 5 hurricane making a direct hit on Miami would trigger a principle loss for investors.
If Hurricane Gustav maintains its projected path, it will make landfall as a Category 4 or 5, more powerful than Katrina.
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