Another Hurricane

Mike

Mike

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For those in the path of Hurricane Florence, stay safe! We wish you all the best.


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For the newbies in the area of projected impact take it VERY seriously. Those who have lived there for awhile, understand the dangers.

When I first moved to Southeast FL in 87, I was a typical newbie, didn't really understand the magnitude of these storms, had moved into one of the typical dumb palm beach homes that wasn't built to the codes that were put into place after Andrew and we had these idiotic HUGE glass windows, no shutters and Andrew was projected to come to the Palm Beach/Broward Border, right in my path. I was moving furniture inside and cavalierly putting tape on windows as though that was protective. Sent my wife and kids up north to Orlando and luckily Andrew veered south although we felt the effects. Over the next few days the devastation I saw south of me was just so disturbing. People not only lost their homes, their business, etc but also lost lives. It looked like a bomb hit, literally nuked.

Little known facts about Andrew is that the National Hurricane Center in Miami, built to withstand winds of 200+ mph was destroyed, wind meters all along Tamiami Trail were stuck at 199 mph, the highest they could measure and while the initial estimate of Andrew was as a CAT 4 hitting land, they subsequently raised it to a CAT5 and never really got the true magnitude because the hurricane strengthened so quickly, they eyewall so tightly packed and the wind meters readings so amazingly high that much of the wind speed was estimated to be from tornadic activity. It may indeed be the strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland but will never be assessed as such as the readings just before and upon making landfall couldn't be obtained accurately and those that were are considered "outliers" relegated to as tornadic activity. All the hangers along the Tamiami Airport, some constructed to withstand winds greater than 200 mph were blown to pieces.

Unfortunately, I have lived through too many of these beasts and NOW take it very very seriously. This one could be on a catastrophic level particularly the way in which it is moving inland at almost a 90 degree angle. Depending upon last minute forces, this too can turn in to an Andrew type of storm, except with a larger eyewall. Truly take care and best of luck.
 
Thank goodness it has become a category 2. Too bad it will drop a ton of rain as it is forecasted to move slowly through the Carolinas.
 
Ritmo said:
Thank goodness it has become a category 2. Too bad it will drop a ton of rain as it is forecasted to move slowly through the Carolinas.
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Very good news by comparison to the original forecast. It also looks like it will be going inland somewhat south of what they initially projected and slightly faster than the worst case scenario which hopefully will be less damage to the coast and less flooding.

It doesn't look like a Floyd type of event
 
Regardless of its category which is now a TS, its dumping record amounts of rain and the by product as this system moves west northwest and up the mountain ridge in NC and the north areas of SC is all of that water will come back down to the ocean via the feeder streams and rivers and those cities that reside close to those rivers will see more flooding.
 
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