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We have a 28 damage indicators. we look at hotels, motels if they are damaged. multistory complexes. even gas station canopies. and as far as a home goes, a single or multifamily home, 1,000 to 5,000 square feet is on the chart and they look at various degrees of damage. if that home is completely gone, a total loss, it s gone down to the slab, the winds generally about 170 miles an hour. if houses were blown off their slabs, immediately that s ef-4 damage. to get to an ef-5 you have to have significant steel or concrete damage. and that s what they found initially yesterday around that briarwood elementary school and that s what gave them cause to raise it from an ef-4 with estimated peak winds of 190 up to an ef-5 with winds as high as 210 miles an hour. so 28 damage indicators. they look at all kinds of different structures, trees to see if they ve been debarked. that s more than likely at least ef-3 damage. i don t know if that sorts it ....

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