If the scale went higher Hurricane Patricia would be a 7 or an 8

The problem is that Hurricanes are classified usually from 90 miles per hour (around there) as a category 1 hurricane and topping out at 150 miles per hour at a category 5.

But, Hurricane Patricia was sustained winds of 200 mph and gusts up to 230 miles per hour.

If you know anything at all about winds 100 mph winds sustained can blow people down a street and send corrugated aluminum roofing right through a person and basically cut them in two. The same with shards of glass sort of like flying knives through the air (either horizontally or vertically down from broken windows in High rise buildings.

By the time you get to 200 mph winds (there are no windows facing the wind still intact) basically. If you are outside directly in the wind there is a good chance you are going to die from various predictatable scenarios. One, you blow away because at 200 mph sustained you cannot hold onto a telephone pole or light post more than about 5 minutes for most people. So, at some point if you aren't hit with flying things that kill you you are going to fly away.

So, being outside in 200 mph sustained winds is basically suicidal. At 200 mph cars and trucks blow away in the wind too at least down the street in the direction of the wind. Or if the wind gets under them right they go up into the air sometimes too. Just imagine driving your car at 200 mph down a road. What would happen? Would your car stay on the ground or not? What if the wind was 15 to 20 minutes? What would happen to you and everyone there?