SilentShadow87
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Yeah in my personal opinion Bassfield definitely had solid EF5 potential but I'd be okay if it's left as a high-end EF4. Like Equus said, so far there is nothing that's glaringly obvious EF5 damage. Contextual evidence is borderline as well (as opposed to, say, Vilonia, Chickasha/Blanchard, or Abilene/Chapman, where the contextual damage was screaming EF5).
It's a can of worms that we should probably take to the Enhanced Fujita debate thread to open, but I really think that contextual damage, especially things like wind-rowing, tree damage, and "incredible phenomena" should absolutely count as DIs. That's just my opinion though. I'm not a wind engineer and I'm not trying to say I know more than the people who developed the scale, but not counting certain forms of damage definitely opens the floodgates for ridiculous amounts of nitpicking.
It's a can of worms that we should probably take to the Enhanced Fujita debate thread to open, but I really think that contextual damage, especially things like wind-rowing, tree damage, and "incredible phenomena" should absolutely count as DIs. That's just my opinion though. I'm not a wind engineer and I'm not trying to say I know more than the people who developed the scale, but not counting certain forms of damage definitely opens the floodgates for ridiculous amounts of nitpicking.
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