Which major cane suprised you the most in 2005?
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Wilma, for becoming the THIRD Cat 5 in less than 2 months, and bombing out so fast with that tiny little eye she had for awhile.
Personally I was most surprised by Katrina's first landfall: the jog south and last minute increase in intensity. I don't think anybody in South Dade was expecting hurricane force gusts and 14-16" of rain in a few hours, causing freshwater flooding. People were getting off work and driving out into this mess unawares, a couple people spent the night of the storm in their cars mired in the flooded fields near my house. Part of the problem was complacency from 2004, when everybody prepared for the end of the world over and over again and it blew 45 mph for ten minutes. After Katrina it was like "where did this thing come from...and where is she GOING?
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Personally I was most surprised by Katrina's first landfall: the jog south and last minute increase in intensity. I don't think anybody in South Dade was expecting hurricane force gusts and 14-16" of rain in a few hours, causing freshwater flooding. People were getting off work and driving out into this mess unawares, a couple people spent the night of the storm in their cars mired in the flooded fields near my house. Part of the problem was complacency from 2004, when everybody prepared for the end of the world over and over again and it blew 45 mph for ten minutes. After Katrina it was like "where did this thing come from...and where is she GOING?
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weatherwoman132
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SootyTern wrote:Wilma, for becoming the THIRD Cat 5 in less than 2 months, and bombing out so fast with that tiny little eye she had for awhile.
Personally I was most surprised by Katrina's first landfall: the jog south and last minute increase in intensity. I don't think anybody in South Dade was expecting hurricane force gusts and 14-16" of rain in a few hours, causing freshwater flooding. People were getting off work and driving out into this mess unawares, a couple people spent the night of the storm in their cars mired in the flooded fields near my house. Part of the problem was complacency from 2004, when everybody prepared for the end of the world over and over again and it blew 45 mph for ten minutes. After Katrina it was like "where did this thing come from...and where is she GOING?
wilma was the 4th category 5. lol
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Definatly hurricane Wilma for me. I went to sleep in the UK with it being a 75mph category-1 hurricane, came back from School the next day and found it a category-5 with a central pressure at 885mbs, only to see it drop even more!
I was in utter shock, I really was!
I was in utter shock, I really was!
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Camille_2_Katrina
without question.... Katrina was the biggerst surprise....
unquestionably.
No one could have imagenied the scope of the surge.
the size of the windfield... the tens of thousands of
people left with that blank stare on their face the day
after, the week after, the month after.
We have NEVER seen a storm do anything like this
before. ever...
unquestionably.
No one could have imagenied the scope of the surge.
the size of the windfield... the tens of thousands of
people left with that blank stare on their face the day
after, the week after, the month after.
We have NEVER seen a storm do anything like this
before. ever...
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