Any one get swiped by that Hurricane?

[finiteless 0]

Just looking at the datails of that storm that just rolled over Florida, pretty nasty business, so I looked up the forcast for CHARLESTON, SC, and further up the east coast, and it's not too good.

 

Saturday 8/14 Forecast in Detail for CHARLESTON, SC

Tropical storm conditions including strong winds and heavy rain

High 83° F

Maximum RealFeel® 78° F

RealFeel Shade® 78° F

Winds WSW at 56 mph

Wind Gusts 151 mph

Maximum UV 3

Thunderstorm Probability 40%

Amount of Precipitation 3.00 in

Amount of Rain 3.00 in

Amount of Snow 0 in

Hours of Precipitation 10

Hours of Rain 10

[Dagger 21]

I live in Va. and we're getting ready for it.

[firehawkordy 34]

Good luck to all who live in it's path. I went through one in 1980 in JacksonvilleFLA.

At the time the ship was not seaworthy so we had to stay at NS Mayport and ride it out tied to the pier.

I have a close friend in N.C. who I hope is going to be alright, she's inland but the last one dumped alot of rain where she lives.

[finiteless 0]

I went through a Cat 5.0 in a tiny remote town of Roebourne in Western Australia when I was six years old, and the air pressure was measured at 925 hp near where I lived, so I know what these unfortunate people went through. It was a slow moving and very large storm, so it took around 24 hours for the sustained winds of 120 knots and regularly pulsating 160 knot super-gusts, to pass through. That experience must be about the most terrifying thing a person can live through. What such gusts can do is beyond what the fertile imagination can dream up, and it leaves a permanent impression on you; to this day it sends a distinct shiver and leaves a cold knot in the stomach, whenever I hear one of these horrific storms has made landfall somewhere. I hope the recovery will not be too painful.

[snapple2993 0]

It is very ugly in Port Charlotte right now. I have friends in Sarasota who didn't see much... but Oceola County has been declared a disaster area, and that's right next to my home County (Brevard)... but my Dad said that he didn't see much of anything.

 

Tropical Storm/ Hurricane Bonnie didnt do much to us up here in Tallahassee, very little rain infact.

 

It seems that the retirement communities of Florida always get the worst of the Canes. They still don't know the death toll in Port Charlotte, kinda reminds me of Homestead... I pray that we here in Florida don't have the same result.

 

We got complacent with this one, and people died becuase of it. Andrew was in '92 and we've had it easy since then, it's a shame that the only people that remembered how dangerous Hurricanes are, were the ones in the insurance business.

[snapple2993 0]

"For all of you that say this was not a major hurricane or that it was overated you all are wrong. Last night when i took a look around there was not much damage around my house but then this morning i went out to help out some freinds and neighbors cleaning up it was a completly differant story. My house had minor roof damage (few missing shingles and gutters flew off) but today i saw houses that got there roofs completly ripped off. There where also trees everywhere it was almost unreal, after a while we went down to a retirement community to help clean up there, those homes where completly destroyed it was really depressing and sad seeing the people coming back to there mobile homes and its just not there, they couldof been my grandma/grandpa it was just sad. We didnt even get hit by a major hurricane and all this s**t happend, i think the winds where just under hurricane strength when the center came over us. Ide hate to see what would of happend if it would have hit us full strenght. And why the hell don't people relize that if the stop light doesn't work there supposed to treat it as a 4 way stop, its not even funny how many accidents occured today because people just don't know how to drive."

 

-From one of my fellow Seminoles in Oviedo (sorry I can't link).

Edited August 15, 2004 by snapple2993

[Snacky 0]

I'm just thankfull this thing didn't come up into Tampa Bay. I went through Kate up in Tallahassee in the 80s and that was a scary thing to go through especially when your a kid. It's dark, you hear and feel things hitting the house, it sounds like a 747 is doing a high power turn in your front yard. Then comes dealing with your home being demolished and having to rebuild.

Floridians will recover, they always do.

[finiteless 0]

Roger that Snacky, the sound of the wind drowned out sound from the intense lightning, we did not hear thunder even once over the wind. You could feel the organs inside you vibrating whenever the super-gusts came. Everything vibrated like crazy; doors were the worst, it’s like they were possessed, they rapidly flexed and bowed in and out, and rattled with the most terrifying violence—but seeing the ceiling undulating was almost as bad. My dad used his leather belt straps and wickets from my new cricket set to try and pin the door closed, and twisted the belts around so that the door might not rip away completely from the wall and suck us all out when it went. I took a trip on a DC-9 around 6 months after that cyclone and had the window seat, but I discovered I could hear that same continuous whistling shriek of the cyclone when I put my ear up to the window and it bought back all the unforgettable memories of that day.

 

This one was such a large storm that it was initially given two names (this had not happened before, nor since) because they thought it had to be two separate cyclones in close proximity within the early imagery, so they called it TC SHEILA and TC SOPHIE, but they shorten this down to TC SHEILA-SOPHIE when they realised it was actually just one enormous storm with a cloud mass around 10 degrees of longitude across! (this was all described within the offical storm report--it's not heresay)

 

You can see the path and intensity of it in this official BOM track image of the 1970-71 cyclone season: TC SHEILA-SOPHIE February 1971 925mb:

 

[PG_Raptor 0]

My Grandmother lives in Tampa Bay, luckily she was in New Jersey during the hurricane, I guess nothing of hers is damaged, thank goodness.

 

Oh, and I have to add... Snapple's back! 8)