Good Luck To Members

[Treasure_Hunter]

Just want to wish good luck and the best to any and all members in path of storm.

If you are along the coast in the Big Bend area of Florida please evacuate quickly to the west, not north.

If you are new to Florida or hurricanes living in Florida's Big Bend area and have not been in a major hurricane in the past, this is NOT one to ride out. 10-15 foot storm surges are not survivable along the coast.

I am born and raised In Florida, seen many Hurricanes in Florida, and Typhoons in Okinawa and Philippines in Pacific, have had eye go directly over me multiple times, but any thing above weak cat 2 is time to move out of the way and fight another day.

.Anyone thinking it will be great detecting on West coast beaches be ready to find tons of iron and metal debris that is left under the sand, the storm surge drags lots of debris from the destruction onto the beaches when the storm surge recedes.

 

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[Bucket Lister]

Just want to wish good luck and the best to any and all members in path of storm.

Echoed.

I've only been in one hurricane in my life.
Visiting grandparents in Hollywood, FL in 1964.

Hurricane Cleo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It was a cat 2 when it made landfall near Miami, but died out fairly quickly after that.

My main memory of it is watching out the window with my grandparents, as fireballs (ball lightning?) rained down on the roof of the house across the street, and my grandparents battling the water coming in various doors & windows.

That, and helping my grandfather put up and take down the steel hurricane shutters over the larger windows....

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Been exposed to over 13+ hurricanes, although not all hit me directly, a near miss of 50 miles is still a strong storm.

I have been in direct hurricane hits at least 6-7 times, (as many Florida natives have) with the eye passing over me 4 times, and 3 close. My first major hurricane that I remember was Hurricane Donna in 1960, eye went over our home and seeing eye from the inside is something. I snuck out to witness it and got caught and yelled at.

Typhoons were a whole new experience. On Okinawa during Typhoon off shore I took taxi to some clifs to take pictures, I was seeing the waves crashing spray crashing over tops of cliffs, thousands of gallons of salt water each time, and cliffs were about 100 ft high, Cape Zanpa Okinawa.

 

[Bucket Lister]

Now that you mention it, I do remember the grandfolks explaining to me about the eye when it passed over us.

I always thought typhoons & hurricanes were the same thing--just different geography.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Hurricanes spin counter clockwise, the dirty side is the NE quadrant, on typhoons they spin clock wise and dirty side is the SW quadrant.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

 

[Bart@Big Boys Hobbies]

Crazy storm!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Lot of damage on Florida's west coast, Anna Marie island, St Pete, Treasure Island, Clearwater, Sarasota, & Tampa all hit hard by high storm surge damage, Cedar Key all but destroyed, Perry Fl hit hard.

Mayor of Treasure Island said during interview that his family has lived on Treasure Island for over 50 years, nothing comes close to damage seen, people's yards full of boats that storm surge tore off their trailors and dropped boats hundred yards+ from waterline. 4 foot of water in homes blocks from beaches.

Residents rode storm out sitting on counter tops and dining tables, some places water to the 1st foor ceilings.

 

[Gare]

GREAT posting T_H

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Clearwater Beach


John's Pass, Central Fl


Cedar Key




Steinhatchee Fl, Big Bend area.


https://youtu.be/WTXO36YAN5s?si=Lv641DNR9wSRu6C1

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

More video of the extensive damage.