If you are outside when a 200 mile per hour gust hits you likely will be air born in other words flying through the air (along with branches and signs and pieces of wood and especially plywood and corrugated aluminum roofing. So, being inside so that all these things impact your homes rather than you is really important at this time in certain parts of Florida.
However, the biggest problem is flooding so if you are not about 50 feet elevation you could be in trouble because there will be flooding (both fresh water and by ocean water combined all the way across Florida from Tampa all the way across to Orlando where Disney World is. So, Disney World could even get flooded out too along with everything else all the way across the state.
So, people could die theoretically by the thousands in flooding of various kinds much like Hurricane Katrina in 2004 in New Orleans. This is the biggest storm to EVER hit western Florida.
There is NO STORM bigger than this one to ever hit Western Florida in HISTORY!
NOTE:
After I studied this for awhile it's true that there were 200 plus mile per hour winds in this storm Hurricane Ian. However, I'm not sure these levels of wind were hitting on the ground at this speed. It is possible that 200 mph winds were hitting the tops of trees though but as wind gets closer to the ground it is stopped or rerouted by buildings, power lines, cars signs etc. So, these high winds are what take off roofs and signs and propel them into buildings or whatever or even people if people are crazy enough to be out and about in 200 mph winds.
But basically in a 200 mph wind especially gusts unless you are tied by a rope to something cement that is reinforced you are just going to either blow away or be killed by other flying objects moving at that speed.
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