Hurricane season

[Paa Langfart]

Looks like it might be getting active in the Atlantic and Caribbean.  For those of you near the coast its probably time to get ready.

[Lame Duck]

[Lame Duck]

It’s hot as devils anus right now with very high humidity.  An absolutely perfect fuel for hurricanes in Atlantic Ocean.  It’s also El Niño season which tends to allow hurricanes to hit South Eastern US as dry desert air shifts north.

[Anybodyhome]

Yep... well, the season really starts October 11.

[bigjohn]

Water hot as fire, not good.

Supposedly El Nino makes for more wind shear which isn't favorable for hurricane development.

Goodness I hope not. We just moved to the coast last fall, had a hurricane the day after we moved in.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Yep it's about that time of the year.  The eastern and central Pacific has already had several major hurricanes and it looks like Hurricane Hilary is actually going to have serious effects on southern California, Arizona, and Nevada which is highly unusual if not unprecedented.

Thankfully NOAA doesn't expect much out of Six or the system developing over the central Atlantic, but we're just getting started.  I bet this will be one of those years where we're getting named storms well into the fall.

[jayboogieman]

8 hours ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

it looks like Hurricane Hilary is actually going to have serious effects on southern California, Arizona, and Nevada which is highly unusual if not unprecedented.

It's rare for that part of the world to get hit. The last time was in 1939. In 67 and 97, the area was hit with the remnants of tropical storms.

[Lame Duck]

12 hours ago, bigjohn said:

Water hot as fire, not good.

Supposedly El Nino makes for more wind shear which isn't favorable for hurricane development.

Goodness I hope not. We just moved to the coast last fall, had a hurricane the day after we moved in.

I keep confusing El Niño and La Niña.  You are right, El Niño should cause more wind shear but looking at the Atlantic… El Niño is slacking.  Hopefully none of these will develop into a monster.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

3 hours ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

What hurricane was the most memorable to you?

 

I have 2, hurricane Floyd in 1999 and hurricane Florence in 2018.

 

I remember FIoyd was a kid. All I remember is my family huddled together in the highschool basketball gym. It was crowded and people were hot. Don't remember how long we stayed in there but I remember the first time my family having to evacuate to another place during a hurricane.

 

Florence sticks out because of how long it stayed over NC just producing massive amounts of rain. Felt like the longest hurricane I ever experienced.

For me, like a lot of people from Charlotte, it's gotta be the big one: Hurricane Hugo in '89.  One of my earliest memories is that storm and its aftermath.

One of the other ones I remember is Tropical Storm Beryl in 1994.  We were in Hickory then and I distinctly remember watching a funnel cloud spin over my parents' house.

[thefuzz]

17 hours ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

What hurricane was the most memorable to you?

 

I have 2, hurricane Floyd in 1999 and hurricane Florence in 2018.

 

I remember FIoyd was a kid. All I remember is my family huddled together in the highschool basketball gym. It was crowded and people were hot. Don't remember how long we stayed in there but I remember the first time my family having to evacuate to another place during a hurricane.

 

Florence sticks out because of how long it stayed over NC just producing massive amounts of rain. Felt like the longest hurricane I ever experienced.

LOL.

Got a LONG list of memorable ones, but Floyd and Fran were the worst.  Carnage.

I've lived at the beach my entire life (other than college), and I've been here for all of them, never evacuated.  Also was a firefighter, so never could evacuate if I wanted to.

4 feet of water in my house in Bertha, fixed it up, and 6 feet in Fran a few weeks later.  Rescued families off their rooftops in boats during Floyd.  Slept in a bank vault overnight at Wrightsville Beach during one of them.  Knocking on every door for mandatory evacuation, fighting fire in the middle of the night during 100 mph winds, going 14 days with no power.

Yea, I've got some memories of those GD things.  This afternoon I'll fill up 30 gallons worth of gas cans, and change the oil in the generator.  I usually do it every Aug 15, but got busy last week.

[thefuzz]

Ah, one of my favorites.  Waking a buddy up in the middle of the night and telling him and his parents to grab as much as they could carry, and go get in the bucket of a front end loader out front.

Water was 2' deep in his house while they slept, and it was rising 1' per hour.  They were the lucky ones.

 

Next morning I was running a jon boat down the highway in 8 feet of water, hit the top of a Ford Excursion that had been left during flooding.  No idea if the owners made it.  I still can't believe that Eastern NC looked the way it did.

[MillionDollarCam]

Living in Florida, I’ve learned to just accept that this is part of the package. Luckily I’m central so I don’t have to worry too much but man I’d hate to see Fort Myers get hit again, they are just getting back on their feet.

[Paa Langfart]

20 hours ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

hurricane Floyd in 1999 

I lived a stones throw from Pages Creek and could hear the ocean waves from the Atlantic on any quiet evening.  My wife and I moved our dogs and the neighbor's dog ( they were elderly and evacuated to their daughter's place in Goldsboro ) and ourselves to my shop which I had built myself and made tough enough to withstand  a 1 or 2 cat.  Our home was a tiny crackerbox built in 1933 and not heavy construction at all.  Seemed for forever for the storm to come in and it literally rained nonstop for several hours. 
When the eye came over we took the dogs out in mid shin deep water to use the bathroom and then got back inside.  We were listening to WECT on the radio and I can remember these poor girls calling into wect and talking to the meterologist George elliot over the air saying how bad it was getting and George saying something to the effect of " its all right girls the back side of this storm will be easy. " About that time we started geting hammered sticks pinecones and limbs bludgeoning my shop and hearing big trees coming down some of which you could feel through the shop floor as they hit the ground.  Turns out old George Elliot was wrong on that one.

 

The one that I remember with some humor was the Bertha in 1996.  As the eye passed over,  me and a couple neighbors went out into the road with chainsaws to clear the road of a downed tree for emergency vehicles if need be.  From down the road came a woman driving like a nut and she had to stop as she got to us.  We aked her where she was going and she said " to the store to get diapers".  We warned her that we were in the eye and the backside would be on us soon but she headed on down the road.  I don't know if she made it back home or not that day because it was only a few minutes before we started getting the eyewall and back of the storm.

Edited August 21, 2023 by Paa Langfart

[Paa Langfart]

3 hours ago, thefuzz said:

going 14 days with no power.

I went 10 days after Fran.  The whole street cheered when we saw the Florida Power and Light trucks heading our way.  They had restored power to everyone and were about ready to leave and after I reinstalled the old fuse breaker into the box at my place,  I still had not power.  I flagged down a couple of the FPL guys just as they were getting ready to leave - turns out my house was the last house on one of the transformers and there was a break in the line that wasn't visible from the ground that they hadn't seen.  Was so nice to take a shower again without moving the generator to the pump house and cranking it up.