young viewer stories

[JonathanBelles]

i wanna hear some of the younger viewers hurricane stories, does anyone have any? lets say less than 25 years old.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Yes. Standing in the winds of frances watching branches fly by.
Or here's one. During Wilma an absolutely severe brief
blast of wind sent some roof tiles flying off a nearby building, made generators blow. Seeing the roof tiles go off is what makes me think
Wilma's maximum gusts here in St. Pete near the water were much
higher than what the official stations got. NWS says 40-50 mph winds in gusts.
40-50 mph winds as gusts do not blow off roof tiles. Those tiles were not
loosely put on, they
had been put in very sturdy. Probably a downburst that followed a
squall that rolled through.

[terstorm1012]

I'm 24...

I was in HS when Floyd blew through. The main thing with Floyd was the water.

It's the only time we were ever dismissed early for rain.

Though I lived in one of the higher parts of the town I lived in (just west of Philadelphia) we still got some water in our basement, which usually happened during heavy rains that came after long dry spells, which the summer of 1999 was one of the worst.

Though the official measurement at Philadelphia Int'l Airport was just under 7 inches of rain, my backyard rainguage had a foot of water in it.

We also had to replace the roof, as it rained so hard new leaks developed and shorted out several ceiling outlets which are still shorted out to this day. A tree also came down and rested on the telephone wires across the street, since a lot of trees came down it took them until mid-October to finally come get rid of the tree. I don't recall if we got a FEMA grant to replace the roof. Parts of Delaware County did get a federal disaster declaration, but probably not my town, as we're fairly high up.

Since it was a Thursday, we still had school the next day, though some districts were closed because they were totally flooded out.