Poll which is the biggest dodged bullet

[webke]

Floyd in my opinion that storm had every one on the SE coast making preparations or evacuating while it churned it's way up the coast.

[cycloneye]

My biggest dodged bullet has been Hurricane Luis as a cat 4 when it changed direction at the last minute and moved just NE of Puerto Rico however affected greatly our friends in the NE Caribbean islands of Antigua,ST Marteen.

[jasons2k]

Was Allen ever at one point forecast by the NHC to make a Cat 5 US Landfall?

Haven't looked at the forecast archives but FWIW, more people evacuated Galveston in '80 for Allen than they did for Alicia in '83. Go figure...

[hurricanedude]

Its not on the list...But Felix recurving before crushing the VA/NC shore

[hurricanefloyd5]

On my recent polls I've seen very intresting opinions which I greatly enjoy reading I learn alot from them

But Hurricanes have also spared areas alot of devestation heres the poll

which was the biggest dodged bullet

if your pick isn't on the list you can still vote for yours

I got to go with Floyd in 1999 if it would have ran into Florida it would have probibly been 140mph at the weakest I think and would have given Andrew a run for it's money (literally)

I say all of these where dodged disasters but Glorias collapse takes a close second to me

i said floyd because of not just thje strength and the size of floyd that caught me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FloridaDiver]

One of the better polls this year, I for one will go with Andrew making that slight left turn late in the track and missing downtown Miami, one can't imagine what would have happened... what a mess!

[gatorcane]

and Charley missing Tampa? That was HUGE! I don't see Charley in this poll

[lapeym]

Sorry guys, gotta be Isidore.

Let me refresh your memory. Isidore was a strong hurricane that was forecast to linger in the southern Gulf before a trough swept it up to New Orleans. This was predicted as early as when it was east of the Yucatan. No one predicted it would actually go SOUTH into the penisula, thereby weakening it and making it lose its CDO.

Sure enough, after a couple of days in the Gulf the long term forecast was correct and the trough swept now TS Isidore into New Orleans. NOLA still suffered severed flooding from rains, but think what would have happened if Isidore remained off the coast.

You would have had STRONGER winds pushing water into the lake and low lying areas in the days preceding landfall. You would have probably still had the rains before landfall. And then, the coup de grace, the winds and storm surge that would have completely buried sections of New Orleans during the landfall.

Isidore drifting South into Mexico was a godsend.