For those of you anxiously awaiting the formation of Debby
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How many northerners look forward to Blizzards, major snowstorms? Although Hurricanes are generally more destructive they are fascinating. From a small cluster of Thunderstorms you get to watch nature transform itself into a mass of energy equall to 100 Hiroshima type atomic bombs. Although nobody in their right mind wants to see themselves or others property damaged or lives lost there is not a one of us that could do anything to make it not happen.
I've been through Hurricanes Dora, David, Earl, Georges' Ivan and Dennis and one strong Tropical Storm named Barry. They were all different in one degree or another but all fascinating at the same time. I think hurricane followers are similiar to Nascar Fans in that we love to see the storm/race but we know that sooner or later the landfall/crash is going to occur.
I've been through Hurricanes Dora, David, Earl, Georges' Ivan and Dennis and one strong Tropical Storm named Barry. They were all different in one degree or another but all fascinating at the same time. I think hurricane followers are similiar to Nascar Fans in that we love to see the storm/race but we know that sooner or later the landfall/crash is going to occur.
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I'd just like to ask if you've ever been in a hurricane, a horrendous evacuation, or had your home/town damaged by one.
It's to be expected that on a message board like this, there will always be an underlying tension between fascination with the storms which can cross the line into WANTING to see storms, and the realization of the damage and dislocation and (occasional) tragedy that they can bring.
Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with tropical storms that began with Frances in 1998. I was at one of the lowest points in my life, when it was a struggle to get out of bed every morning. Thanks to Frances, I got a free day and a half off of work, which was like a gift from heaven, especially since the power stayed on, allowing me to watch movies all day. A few weeks later, watching Georges on the Weather Channel, I was like Carlton Fisk, trying to wave the storm to the West, hoping to get another few days of paid vacation.
After 1998 I didn't pay nearly as much attention to the tropics. There was the occasional storm warning, and a few times I had to walk into the office through knee-deep water (Allison, Claudette). That all changed with Rita last year. Almost everyone I know locally has a unique story about "The Evacuation". For me, it was a rare burst of adrenaline. After seemingly endless months of monotony, suddenly I was forced into immediate and urgent action. For a short time, it looked like the routine life I knew might be swept away. And my reaction to that wasn't entirely horror and despair; there was also a sense of adventure and discovery to it.
Anyway, I don't mean to bore y'all by droning on with my personal story. Bottom line is, hurricanes are a fascinating topic, and occasionally there is a silver lining in those swirling clouds. There is a lot of genuinely harmful schadenfreude in society today; by comparison, merely wanting some interesting storms to watch is hardly an unforgivable sin.
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I have been through two hurricanes with the DOW's(Doppler On Wheels) studying the eyewall winds as they make landfall and correlating peak wind gusts with damage. Ivan and Rita were my two trips down to the gulf coast. Here is the link to my page:
http://www.tornadostalker.com/hurricanes/hurricanes.html
http://www.tornadostalker.com/hurricanes/hurricanes.html
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I really enjoy tracking them, but I remember hurricane Bob in 1991 and that was a pretty nasty little hurricane, hate having no power for a 3 days, and trees down everywhere, and parts of your roof in the neighbors swimming pool, thats why I never like to see a hurricane of any intensity hitting land in any way shape or form
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Do they still hold me in awe and fascination?--of course, I guess that's the scientist side of me. But add to that fascination an even greater respect for the horrendous potential for catastrophe they can portend. While I now find myself identifying moreso than ever with those who get a sinking gut feeling if one enters the Gulf and/or poses a threat to my area, and a genuine disdain for the often ubiquitous cheerleaders for these things; I guess that fascination is what brings most folks to places like this.
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Awesome. Great post.
<fascination...and wanting to be prepared brings us here>
I'll never forget hearing a lady in Morgan City, LA on the radio before Andrew's second landfall. Reporter asked if she was evacuating. Yes, because of what the aftermath might be like. "Lord," she said, "this area is known for snakes."
I barely escaped Andrew, dashed to evacuate Sunday afternoon. Went through barely TS-force winds in Floyd ('87) in Key Largo. Had gusts from Georges. A mile away from a tornado from Mitch, driving down the 18-mile-stretch. Let off work around noon, encountered TS Irene driving west on McNab in Fort Lauderdale. Evacuated for Ivan, Dennis, Rita, Wilma. Lost a sailboat in Wilma, damage to homes, businesses, docks destroyed. Got caught by Katrina TS winds at home, lost power and had moderate tree damage. Had major trees down from Wilma, but only one on the fencing.
Betsy's track, before I lived here, is right over this place on Key Largo, from the report coordinates. Before my time, but I think the house was here and flooded about 1 foot inside, about 5 feet off the ground. Betsy's flooding in New Orleans promted much of the hurricane protection leveeing that failed in Katrina.
All in all, I've had really really good luck for being in Florida. And been pretty damn scared.
I dread a rapid-intensifier hitting the Upper Keys. The '35 storm chills me because it was an Andrew buzzsaw that, like Charley from the opposite side, exploded in a few hours.
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Re: For those of you anxiously awaiting the formation of Deb
Toadstool wrote:Luckily for us in the Atlantic area, this season has been outsourced to China.
I know I'm naughty, but that made me laugh.
As for me, I still am interested in the weather and hurricanes, in spite of going through Wilma last year.
I wouldn't wish a cat 3-5 on anyone on this planet.
For those, I always hope for "fishies".
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Here are the cane's I've experienced
Elena (1985) (this is the first one I can remember. I remember the surge flooding Tampa.)
Josephine (TS)
Charley (Sucked... I had to evacuate)
Frances (That one sucked too, TS force winds+ for 36 hrs+ ecch stuck in the house for days)
Ivan (didnt hit but I do remember the mass hysteria when It was forecast to come toward Tampa)
Jeanne (Personal favorite, not *too* intense and didnt last too long. Put on a nice show in Tampa)
Dennis (outer bands)
Wilma (outer fringes.. I was expecting a little more action from this one in Tampa)
Funny that my whole life I never experienced a true hurricane (Jeanne was about cat 1 max gusts here in Tampa) and in 2004 all of a sudden we get 3.
Like I always say, its all fun and games till the power goes out.
Elena (1985) (this is the first one I can remember. I remember the surge flooding Tampa.)
Josephine (TS)
Charley (Sucked... I had to evacuate)
Frances (That one sucked too, TS force winds+ for 36 hrs+ ecch stuck in the house for days)
Ivan (didnt hit but I do remember the mass hysteria when It was forecast to come toward Tampa)
Jeanne (Personal favorite, not *too* intense and didnt last too long. Put on a nice show in Tampa)
Dennis (outer bands)
Wilma (outer fringes.. I was expecting a little more action from this one in Tampa)
Funny that my whole life I never experienced a true hurricane (Jeanne was about cat 1 max gusts here in Tampa) and in 2004 all of a sudden we get 3.
Like I always say, its all fun and games till the power goes out.
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Charley,Frances, Jeanne that was enough for me but still i want and need to understand the same as all others. don't post here much but i read here every day just to learn i remember last year reading one post befor Katrina Hit the post said "GET OUT,GET OUT NOW" thats how important this site is to me. Heads Up on thease things is a very valuable thing to have. If it were'nt for all here that studys and learns from thease powerful things We'd all be in the dark.
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