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re: There have been four hurricanes to hit the U.S. as Category 5 storms...
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:18 pm to MemphisGuy
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:18 pm to MemphisGuy
quote:Not a "climate change" guy, but the numbers don't lie. I saw a video on this earlier today. Here is a list of every Cat 4 or 5 to make landfall since 1971....
This can't be right... I've been told by some very smart democrats that Hurricanes are worse than ever before because of climate change. That we've never seen hurricanes as bad as we see them now.
1979 - Frederic - Cat 4
1992 - Andrew - Cat 4
2005 - Charley - Cat 4
2017 - Harvey - Cat 4
2018 - Michael - Cat 5
2020 - Laura - Cat 4
2021 - Ida - Cat 4
2022 - Ian - Cat 4
2024 - Helene - Cat 4
6 in the last 8 years, 7 in the last 20, after only having 2 the previous 35 years. Granted the data is lightyears better now, but it's undeniable that majors are significantly more in number since Y2K...
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Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:20 pm to CroakaBait
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the stretch from Slidell to Mobile
You mean the Landmass?
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:20 pm to JasonDBlaha
For those of us that had to deal with Michael it was something for sure. You can still see the scars today. It looked like every tree from the coast to South Georgia was snapped in half. Have yet to see anything like that since. It was a major wind event with very little flooding except in Mexico Beach area.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:21 pm to TigerTatorTots
I spent almost 4 weeks in Panama City for Michael storm response. Worked the area by the highway to Tyndall. Boat race road haha. That place was destroyed.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:22 pm to deaconjones35
Yup I did the same. Two young kids and a prego wife. Made I promise to them never again.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:22 pm to RollTide1987
I drove through the panhandle after Michael on the way to Disney. Place was wrecked.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:28 pm to LSUDUCKMAN67
quote:My man! Not in it alone. I did the exact same thing. Stayed in Houma, with pregnant wife (3rd trimester), and my 2 kids at the time we're 1 and 6. The women's center at TGMC opened literally the week before our scheduled c-section. Looking back it was pretty stupid. But my wife agreed to stay and didn't want to risk "losing her doctor".
Yup I did the same. Two young kids and a prego wife. Made I promise to them never again.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:37 pm to LSUDUCKMAN67
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I still say Ida hit as a cat 5 the last hurricane hunter run didn’t happen
Try as they might they wanted to find 156 mph winds. I thought the last hunter flight didn’t go up due to mechanical issues but I could be wrong.
I think some Chouest boats clocked wind speeds far and above but they weren’t “calibrated” to NOAA standards. Even still. The “brown water effect” made no sense in this case as it was such a slow mover. Wasn’t it’s pressure lower than Ian, which was later upgraded to a 5?
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:41 pm to RollTide1987
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Why is it that Michael is known as the "Forgotten Category 5"? Is it due to where it made landfall? Andrew hit the suburbs of Miami but Camille didn't really impact a highly populated area, yet its cultural impact can still be felt over 50 years later. It's like Michael came, went, and then the world moved on with a few updates about recovery efforts here and there.
Michael had a max storm surge of like 15 feet where Camille's was more like 25 feet.
This produces much more drastic coastal damage which seems to be what people remember.
Michael also killed like 70 people where Camille killed like 260.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:43 pm to TigerTatorTots
Nothing but rednecks, cults and vampires in that section of Florida
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:46 pm to Antib551
quote:I don’t blame her - the Friday before Katrina hit, I had my 36th week check up for #2 - we evacuated from St Bernard later that day
But my wife agreed to stay and didn't want to risk "losing her doctor".
I was assured at Woman’s in Baton Rouge that Touro would be up and running by my 40th week.
#2 was born in Baton Rouge. And it was a mess.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:50 pm to RollTide1987
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I just find it weird that it hasn't had a lasting impact like the others have had.
Michael was Cat 3 when it entered GA. It's remembered in the ag and rural communities in SW GA.
But Helene's impact on agriculture and the small towns along its path will be remembered by many more as much greater than Michael.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:56 pm to Professor Dawghair
Camille also has the distinction of being the OG Cat 5 that the other storms are measured against. It was the 1st major storm to be part of the new TV age as well.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 10:01 pm to GreenRockTiger
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I was assured at Woman’s in Baton Rouge that Touro would be up and running by my 40th week.
I work at Touro, only time the hospital closed in its 180 year existence.
We opened back up October 1st and that was just ER services. The hospital gradually opened over the weeks. Don’t remember when L&D opened but it was well after you delivered in BR.
I was there for Katrina, it sucked…. But we were much better off than any other hospital on the Eastbank of Orleans Parish, except for Children’s, they didn’t close.
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 10:24 pm to RollTide1987
At this point I think it’s really, really, difficult to categorize and quantify hurricane effects and damage.
I thought we’d seen the worst of it (and lived through much of it) until now.
I thought we’d seen the worst of it (and lived through much of it) until now.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:03 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Ida was within sniffing distance of Cat 5, and 3 years later it would have been forgotten nationally because it hit the Houma area
I sat in a hotel room 2 days after Ida and watched the national news on multiple channels talking about NYC “flooding” from a couple inches of rain with only a passing mention of Ida.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 11:34 pm to Antib551
Hurricane Frederic created the cove on Ft Morgan where I now work. I always tell everyone that it will only take another Hurricane to take it back. Thought Sally was going to do it. Sat in the inner eye wall for 10 hours. 110mph winds. Paid $185 for a hotel room with no electricity and an inch of water on the floor because we couldn’t get home to my house with a generator because Hwy 59 at Waterville was 5 feet deep. Weird storm for us. Went to Biloxi for a free room, cold shower and big arse steak.
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