Hurricane experiences

[shaggy]

Since I am somewhat new to this board, I was wondering how many of us have actually been in a hurricane and if this has been done before I am sorry for running this topic but I was curious

As for myself I have been in several including a few that where quite intense such as Hurricane Fran which gave us hours of hurricane force or better gust many over 100 MPH and did a lot of damage and of course Hurricane Floyd which gave us well over 20-25 inches of rain in less than a day and winds to hurricane force and produced the worst flooding ever seen here, one of the first to die in this storm did so less than a half mile from my parents home where I was staying at the time then to a lesser extent we had Hurricanes Bertha, Bonnie, Isabel, Charley(he was most likely not a hurricane when he it NC ) all of which have had the eye pass over me or within say 50 miles or so.

I guess I was just wondering who else out there had been in a hurricane and when I say in a hurricane I mean hurricane force winds etc not the outer edges

[webke]

I do not know where you are located, but based upon the storms you experienced you are in my neighborhood. I have gone through all the ones you mentioned, I had my first experience with Hugo, Bonnie took the roof off where I was working at the time, Charley was the first storm that I actually experienced the eye going overhead. Floyd caused us major problems here as parts of the county actually set new 100 year flood records, and some parts were actually cut off from the rest making getting around very difficult. Having come here from upstate New York, all I can say is that Hurricanes are much worse than snowstorms at least the snow doesn't blow what you have away it may get buried and you need to keep it off the roof but hurricanes cause much more damage.

Ken

[storms in NC]

must be NC for sure. I lost my home to floyd

[shaggy]

I live in the Greenville, NC area about 2 or 3 miles from the Tar river which averages 3-5 foot deep and floods at 10-13 ft during Floyd it reached 29-30 ft deep

[susan]

I survived Alicia..Eye went over my neighborhood...

[webke]

I know a person here who left the North Myrtle Beach area and went to Greenville to stay with some famly during that storm and they were totally flooded out. The winds are bad in a hurricane, but the water can be much worse for inlying areas.

[WeatherEmperor]

I lost almost everything in hurricane Andrew.

<RICKY>

[shaggy]

One thing I can say is that we have so far only had Cat 2 or lower conditions by the time the centers reaches us so I have never been in Cat 3 or higher conditions and cannot imagine how bad that must be considering what 100 MPH winds are like, much less a Hugo, Andrew or Charley hopefully I never will in 1984 we had a large long lived F4 tornado hit about a mile from my house and my boy scout troop helped in the pickup/cleanup and so I have seen what extreme wind will do and that kind of damage on a large scale is something I hope noone on this board ever has to experiance( or experiance again in WeatherEmperor case) or a better term would be survive.

[artist]

any one here have your own personal photos of the aftermath? If so I think if you can handle it, it would serve a great purpose in showing others how devasting they can really be, if you were to post them.