What major storms have you been through?

[jujubean]

yep, witnesed that first hand...I was reading a thread yesterday on nola evacuations(can't seem to find it now) but anyway poster commented about a cat 5 having a nuclear explosion in the eye and it struck me kind of funny because I was thinking yep,that's about how it looks after!!

[EDR1222]

Others...

But, Andrew was the only one that i experienced major winds from.
Near my house at opa locka airport they registered gusts over 200 before their equipment failed.
-Eric

That must have been a nightmare to behold, I would never want to see that

Ditto. That must have been incredibly scary. I remember watching the radar images of Andrew as it came ashore, and that was even scary to look at.

[Stormtrack]

Considering that I have lived less than 20 miles from the GOM for the last 33 years, I think we have been pretty lucky. Alicia came through here in 1983, but we evacacuated with our 6-months old twins. The only damage was to a small pine tree. I guess for the people north of us in Houston TS Allison in 2001 though not of the magnitude of Alicia was just as destructive. Ironically, Allison was the name they used to replace Alicia. Now they are both retired.

[x-y-no]

Others...

But, Andrew was the only one that i experienced major winds from.
Near my house at opa locka airport they registered gusts over 200 before their equipment failed.
-Eric

Nonsense - Opa Locka didn't have anything remotely that strong. That's 15 miles or so north of where I rode out the storm, and my area had strong Cat-3 sustained, maybe borderline Cat-4.

I doubt Opa Locka had anything over Cat-1.

[HeatherAKC]

Andrew, South Florida (Kendall) 92'.

There have been 2 times in my life that I have been REALLY, REALLY scared.

Once was when my 2 year old was taken my ambulance to the hospital with severe dehydration.

The second was during Andrew. I was about 5 miles north of Country Walk and thought I was going to die.

as i am feeling the second story of CBR house rock... What it takes to make a sold structure rock is just amazing.

Like Eric says, you ask yourself all kinds of weird questions....Why is there water coming through the high-hats? What is this pink stuff flying around the house (ie insulation)? Why is the wind whipping through my hair and yet not a single window/door is broken (yet)? What was that noise? Where did my dining room shutters fly off to? Whose lawn furniture is in my yard? Why do my ears hurt? WHEN WILL THIS END????You get it..
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[frederic79]

Camille 1969 (can't really remember - 3 years old then)
Frederic 1979 (remember well - was terrified watching tall pines whipping the ground)
Elena 1985 (major damage but evacuated)
George 1998 (rode it out but I won't do this again -ever!)
near misses with Ivan and Dennis (evacuated both times)

[vbhoutex]

I feel you on the 200 mph wind gusts....wow I didn't realize how far those winds extended!!

There was one squal line that was the second strongest part of Andrew that went though opa locka. It wasn't as strong though as the two cells that were spinning around the eye... one that wiped out country walk.

Andrew still is an enigma. Some of the destruction witnessed in Andrew has never been seen before except in some of the huge tornados of the midwest. And Becuase of Andrew's design... he was spawning incredibly more tornado's than the average hurricane.

I will forever remember that night. With every bang, creek, and howl... my stomache would fall... as i am feeling the second story of CBR house rock... What it takes to make a sold structure rock is just amazing.

Many of my friends went south.. and had to hold doors shut against hurricane winds... or huddle in hallways with matress' over their heads as Andrew tore their roof off, and ripped the house to pieces. That day driving down their with the family's trucks full of supplies for people... that site was unbelievable. Entire housing developments... with only concrete foundations left. I hope we never have another one of this anywhere... but especially in a major city.
-Eric

that is the same exact thing those of us that experienced Camille and/or her aftermath said/say. I would not wish what I saw after Camille on my worst enemy!!!! IMO, both Camille and Andrew were basically large tornados!

[Shoshana]

Major?

None

'shana

[Astro_man92]

I have a question. If lightning is present near a hurricanes center. Does that mean that it is weakening? if so why?

[Ixolib]

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=956150#956150

[Shoshana]

Ironically, Allison was the name they used to replace Alicia. Now they are both retired.

And I think "Andrew" was the replacement name for "Allen"....

And of course thry're both retired too.

Lessee ... Alison seems to have been replaced by Andrea

And Andrew's been replaced by Alex ...

[wzrgirl1]

I live in Broward County but i had fringe effects from andrew, georges, david, irene, frances and jeanne....

[seaswing]

Lets see...

Donna - 1960
Dora - 1964
Floyd
Frances
Jeanne

I know there were some in between Dora and Floyd but I can't remember.

[FloridaDiver]

I'm showing my age also, I'm a Native Floridian, born in South Florida in 1959. I was to young to remember Donna (1960), I do remember Cleo (1964) then Betsy the year after (1965), my dad took photographs of what was left of our house. Andrew (1992) was the worst, like many I lost my house, I lived down the street from Black Point Marina in Cutler Ridge. I was in the Key's on vacation when Georges (1998) decided to visit and most recently Francis and Jeanne (2004).

After the "Andrew" experience, especially the post-storm mess there isn't much more to say. CAT 4 and I am gone, no questions asked.

[storm54]

Two of them

Donna-1960
Dora-1964

[stormwitch]

During Hurricane Donna against the advice or knowledge of my father, I brought my 5 pet ducks into my bedroom for safe keeping. ( I was 13.) Dad told me they would be fine on the lake but I was worried about them.... Well around midnight he discovered them and was such a softie that he let them stay inside until the winds died down!!! It took me a whole day to clean up the mess they made. :roll:

During Hurricane Elena my classroom at Seminole High School was used as a shelter (I taught English there.) What a mess..a lot of things were taken and worst of all, someone urinated in the corner of my classroom!

[Acral]

Ivan

I was in Daphne, and while the storm got my attention, it did not scare me. After the winds died down, I went for a drive around my subdivision. Most everything was in place. Then I turned down the "main drag" to hwy 98 along Mobile Bay and I was astounded. The damage was unreal, and of course, I later learned that the damage was massive from Evergreen Alabama all the way to Panama City.

The subdivision adjacent to mine had major structural failures to almost all of the 60 some-odd homes.

[Coredesat]

While living in Fredericksburg:
Bob (1985, TD)
Hugo (1989, TS)
Andrew (was extratropical, but everyone was still calling it a TD)
Danielle (1992, TS) - I remember being in my second grade class during Danielle. LOTS of rain.
Beryl (1994, TS)
Bertha (1996, TS)
Fran (1996, TD)
Dennis (1999, TD)
Floyd (1999, TS)

After moving to Richmond in 2002:
Isabel (hurricane)
Bonnie (TD)
Charley (TS)
Frances (TD)
Gaston (TD/TS, Poor Shockoe Bottom...)
Ivan (TD, until the circulation that became Ivan II looped)
Jeanne (TD)
Cindy (2005, TD, just before it became extratropical - LOTS of rain, tornadoes in area)

Some of my good friends in Springfield, Illinois got TD Arlene and TD Dennis before they were downgraded to remnant lows.

[Lowpressure]

Frederick 1979, Ocean Springs MS. was the big one for me so far.
Isabel was pretty nasty in Fredericksburg, VA in 2003
While living in Jacksonville, we had many close calls, but luckily no big hit.