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pilot association worked to review the aspects. one of them was navigation, and the other was to make sure there was no under water debris obstructing the channel in anyway. and the third one was to make sure there s been no shoaling, no shipping of sand or water sediment that would reduce the ships navigating. and then as you stated for the port of tampa, everglades, fort lauderdale, and for port canaveral in florida, today all those ports will reopen with some restrictions but allow the free flow of critical supplies into those ports. can we talk about 15 ports. according to the florida
the eastern side. it s called shoaling. the dropoff is not as deep on the western side as it is on the eastern side. that allows that water to be able to push in and go higher on the western side than it would on the eastern side. so keep that in mind, too. forecast intensity. because of the incredible scale of this storm, how big it is, it will likely take hurricane force winds from the east side of florida to the west side of florida. so it really doesn t matter which side of florida you re on, east coast versus west coast, to determine who is going to have hurricane force winds and who won t. both sides are likely going to have that. we ve heard about comparisons to andrew. i want to kind of break that down for you. this is andrew on the left, irma on the right. technically andrew is dppd toex to be stronger at landfall, 150 miles an hour compared to 165 with andrew.