Because of the area's vulnerability to hurricanes, he quickly became an expert in how hurricane-force winds affect buildings.
I used something called a force gauge to measure how much force I needed to get worms off different paints.
"The force plate measures how much how much force is put into the ground in different directions," CEO Phil Wagner tells TechCrunch.
The tool will measure how many pounds of force you squeezed with.
Another measure that economists put emphasis on is the "labor force participation rate," which measures how many Americans are working as a percentage of the overall labor force.
I used a Force Sensitive Resistor on a glove to measure how hard the handshake was.
Later on September 20, a Navy reconnaissance flight confirmed a circulation and also measured hurricane force winds.
Hurricane-force winds were measured in Guayama for 18 hours; since the storm is estimated to have been moving at 13 mph (21 km/h), the diameter of the storm's hurricane winds was estimated very roughly to be 234 miles (376 km).
On Matagorda Island, the local weather station measured winds of 75 mph the only official report of hurricane-force winds along the coastline.
When the storm was moving through the islands of Tonga at peak strength, a few islands recorded hurricane-force winds; the city of Neiafu measured the strongest winds, peaking at 185 km/h (115 mph).
