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And these are then merged and melded into a final score which uses three rules and different types of scenarios. The first one would be the final score is never lower than the highest of the three individual hazard scores. So if you've got three scores, you look at them, whatever the highest is, the score is never lower than those. And second, if two individual hazards have the same score, let's say three or higher, then the final score is increased by one. So that gives a little bit of an overkill, better safe than sorry sort of thing. So if the storm surge has a score of two, but wind and rainfall are both free, then the hurricane is classed as a category four. The third rule that comes up is that a final score of six is given if either two hazards have a score of five or if two hazards have a score of four and a third is five. So then we bump it up one, which then gives a category five. So the higher category is important. A lot of people base their decision to leave an area or evacuate on that number, not just the details of the hazard.