re: Eye wall of cat 3 or higher.

You win.

Took my family to an Orange Beach condo in Sept 2020 for our first vacation in years. That week hurricane Sally was projected to hit near the LA/MS coast. As it started weakening to a Cat 1 we decided to stay and ride it out even though the eye was slowly creeping towards us. Last minute it rapidly intensified to a High Cat 2 (almost a 3) and slowed down to 1-2 MPH off the coast. It caught everyone in that area off guard, even the Kroger grocery store nearby was open until 1pm the same day and there was hardly any panic buying. We road through the northern eyewall all night and the huge eye for the better part of the next morning. My wife and daughters slept the while night while I stayed up praying for the RI to stop. Part of the roof started leaking, and we captured the water in bowls. I parked our van near the road after looking for the highest elevation on the FEMA flood maps. Mine was one of about seven vehicles in the complex that did not flood! Next day we drove home, cutting our vacation short by three days, but I was thankful we were just renting for the week.

Hurricane Michael 2018. Scary as shite, CAT 5

i have seen the videos of my friends dad that rode out laura in hackberry on the tugs for the company they own.

yea 140mph winds at ground level...no thanks

had plenty of coworkers that road laura out in the admin building, they all said never again.

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Not a 3 but the eye of Zeta also went directly over my house (Harahan/River Ridge area). Had a neighbor go outside and start clearing debris and had to yell at them to get back inside.

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We got the eyewall in da parish for Zeta. Was super intense rain and wind and then boom stopped. Went outside to check damage and got back inside. Back side had hardly any rain but worse wind.

Almost all our damage happened from backside.

During the eye I resecured the trampoline (was still mainly in place but was starting to come out a little bit). Backside wind tossed it.

Also remember Cindy passing in 2005 and thinking this ain't no damn tropical storm. It was upgraded after the fact.

I have no desire to ride out something more than that. You know it's coming... I'd rather go hang out somewhere for a few days and come back after.

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Eye of Zeta passed over my house in 2020. Good thing that fricker was moving fast or there would have been nothing left in South Lafourche for Ida to destroy a year later.

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I was in the eye of Zeta here and the experience was much different. It had weakened a lot. My neighbors lost a shed, but no other damage.

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I can promise you you did not need to be within 3-5 miles of the louisiana coast to have sustained 150mph winds from IDA's eye wall

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This.

The eye of Zeta passed over us. All together it lasted maybe 2.5 hours. It was so bizarre because there was no rain, just the wind. No noise of raindrops hitting the window, just a constant whistling sound. At one point I walked outside while the eye was right over us. It was calm but the sky was a hazel brown that I have never seen before with a constant spinning cloud all around the sky. Pretty nuts.

We hit the road for Ida but had a lot of family that stayed. One uncle who is usually pretty calm was texting us every hour asking if it was almost done because he did not know how much more he could take. Another uncle was glad he stayed because he was able to barricade his front doors from blowing in. In laws said it sounded like a train was passing out their front door for four hours straight. I never plan to put myself or family through that.