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America's mid-Atlantic to Maine I-95 corridor on Hurricane alert

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Texashiker said:
Cat 3 - if I could find strong shelter, I would stay. My family stayed through hurricane rita which was a cat 3 when she made landfall. For close to 8 hours it sounded like a freight train was parked on top of the shelter was family was in. We were without power for close to 18 days after rita.

Cat 4 and 5 - I would have to leave the area, those are nothing to play with.
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Hide from wind, run from water. If you are more than a couple miles inland - even on the NE quad of a CAT5 - its probably not going to blow down your filled block home. Unless your home is wood - then run like hell.

Tater salad had it right - It's not THAT the wind blows, it's WHAT the wind blows.
 
bobdole369 said:
Tater salad had it right - It's not THAT the wind blows, it's WHAT the wind blows.
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During hurricane Rita, about 3am something slammed into the building my family was staying in. Everyone jumped up, and started looking for water coming through the ceiling. We did not find any water leaks (we thought a section of the roof had blown off), so we laid back down and "tried" to get some sleep.

The next morning we found were the sound came from - a sign had blown off the bank building behind us, and slammed into the building my family was in.

From around midnight until 4am or 5am, the whole building was shaking. If you have ever been under a bridge while a train was going overhead, the storm sounded something like that, but much, much worse.

Riding out a hurricane is no fun, and its nothing that I would "want" to do.
 
BUTCH1 said:
I can understand her concern as if that happens Ft. Lauderdale airport will most certainly be closed and your flight probably canceled. I just hate the thought of putting all those shutters and then god knows how long without electricity, I have a genny but sometimes finding gas can be a challenge after a storm..
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Amazing what a 5 gallon container is worth when filled up BEFORE the stomr comes in.()🙂

shutters, I can agree with them being a PITA.

I had made custom plywood ones for when Andy visited. Lag bolt receptors were drilled into the sills (8 / window), the previous spring. Took about a half day to hang the house and another to strip the coconut trees.
 
EagleKeeper said:
Amazing what a 5 gallon container is worth when filled up BEFORE the stomr comes in.()🙂

shutters, I can agree with them being a PITA.

I had made custom plywood ones for when Andy visited. Lag bolt receptors were drilled into the sills (8 / window), the previous spring. Took about a half day to hang the house and another to strip the coconut trees.
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I've got 4 5 gal jugs plus a 13 gallon one but if a genny is running a room AC and a fridge it's working pretty hard and the amount of gas I can store would be 5-7 days tops.
 
flvinny521 said:
And once the storm has passed, the weather is usually perfect: nice and cool with none of that nasty humidity-laden heat that you suffer through during the rest of hurricane season.
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Well for us it was worse, all that rain the storm brought started to evaporate when the sun returned, humidity got maxed out..
 
BUTCH1 said:
Well for us it was worse, all that rain the storm brought started to evaporate when the sun returned, humidity got maxed out..
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Now that I am thinking about it, there was only one storm that I can clearly remember the excellent weather afterwards. I don't remember which named storm it was, though.
 
Texashiker said:
Cat 3 - if I could find strong shelter, I would stay. My family stayed through hurricane rita which was a cat 3 when she made landfall. For close to 8 hours it sounded like a freight train was parked on top of the shelter was family was in. We were without power for close to 18 days after rita.

Cat 4 and 5 - I would have to leave the area, those are nothing to play with.
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When Floyd had us (Daytona) in it's probable path they issued an evacuation, luckily I left the night before as I-4 got so jammed folks spent 2 hours and were only 10 miles from home, many bailed out across the medium and returned home, Floyd was a cat.5 at the time, 150+MPH and massive. They were actually considering blocking the ramps on I-4 and making all 6 lanes westbound, it was that bad..
 
flvinny521 said:
Now that I am thinking about it, there was only one storm that I can clearly remember the excellent weather afterwards. I don't remember which named storm it was, though.
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It's OK for awhile as the storm usually has cloud cover and the rain cools thing off but 1-2 days later hell starts..
 
The only problem I have with hurricanes is when they hit on or just before a weekend. Why not a Monday or Tuesday when I may get a few days off from work?
 
shocksyde said:
They should ALWAYS do that when they give evacuation orders.
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Amen, basically the highway infrastructure is unsuited to everyone leaving at once then you throw in a lot of older cars that are being asked to do a lot (idle in traffic for long periods) and some are bound to break down and cause even more problems..
 
BUTCH1 said:
When Floyd had us (Daytona) in it's probable path they issued an evacuation, luckily I left the night before as I-4 got so jammed folks spent 2 hours and were only 10 miles from home, many bailed out across the medium and returned home, Floyd was a cat.5 at the time, 150+MPH and massive. They were actually considering blocking the ramps on I-4 and making all 6 lanes westbound, it was that bad..
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How's it looking for us this time (Daytona)?
 
BUTCH1 said:
Holy shit, a local on ATOT!, kinda rare..anyway latest track has shifted slightly to the east, calling for it to pass close to Florida but make landfall in the Carolina's..
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Heh, there are a few of us on here that are local.. A majority of us are students (you can guess where.. **see sig**)
 
My son is hoping for a major hurricane. For him, I hope for a major hurricane to hit as well. Overtime!
 
As exciting as these big storms may be, I'm glad we don't get these here. The house is not even all paid off yet, no money to build another!
 
im from central florida and i'd welcome a good few days of rain. but CAN NOT wait for this summer to be OVER. hopefully i can move out of this swampland some day soon.
 
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