re: Isaias - Clean Up and Recovery Begin

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In Gulf Breeze, 100% agree this was worse than Sally for tree damage. Lots of healthy trees uprooted or broken in two. We were clocking winds at 99 mph before we lost power at 8:00. Got power back about 4-hours ago.

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You all were under the sting jet portion of tbe storm for the duration of landfall.

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You learn something new everyday. I’ve lived in southeast Louisiana my whole life and this is the first I’ve learned of a sting jet. As if hurricanes were not bed enough without this frickery.

As I noted earlier in the thread, we had a condo rental scheduled for the 10th. Obviously everything got pushed back due to the storm coming on shore in the Fort Walton area.
I just wanted to give props to the community, the cities, counties and state as a whole. We recieved the go ahead for our stay with a pushed up check-in date of the 11th.
We arrived this afternoon, and all public utilities are fully functional, the internet service has been restored, and an amazing job of removing debris has been done.
Florida, Walton County, and Fort Walton all deserve and will get the highest praise for their response and fortitude in the face of adversity. Truly amazing.
I am thankful for all of them that the damage was too significant

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You learn something new everyday. I’ve lived in southeast Louisiana my whole life and this is the first I’ve learned of a sting jet. As if hurricanes were not bed enough without this frickery.

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Most people living along the Gulf coast won't have to deal with this particular setup. It is usually reserved for when tropical storms/hurricanes become extratropical, and that usually happens well inland, or at least well after landfall of some sort. Isaias had the interation with that strong trough that was shearing it on its approach to landfall. It was associated with an upper low over Texas that basically squeezed the storm from the west helping to ramp up the wind. It wasn't extratropical by definition, but might as well have been because it acted as if it was. Pseudo-extratropical with a pseudo-sting jet. This was a weird one that folks will learn a lot from.

There's another possible contributor to getting those winds to the surface that I think Duke mentioned yesterday in the thread somewhere. There were still convective bursts as Isaias was nearing landfall. There was a huge amount of lighting, more than you normally see, with those storms just offshore. You had those storms ramping up at the same time the core of the storm opened up due to the shear and land interaction beginning to play it's role. Without that continuous feedback loop of the solid core to continue to support that convective blow up on the west side of the storm, those storms began to collapse. Their collapse helped to drive those upper level winds to the surface sort of like a downburst from a severe Summertime storm. Rainfall totals aren't huge under that sting jet, at least compared to those just a few miles to the east. That could be attributed to the collapse of the storms.

Very interesting.

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a flooded basement.

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2 types of basements in this country.
Those that flood and those that are going to flood.

We setup in Milton. Anyone in the area that needs a meal come to:


Christ Methodist
5983 Dogwood Dr,
Milton, FL 32570

Lunch at 12, beef tacos

Dinner at 5pm will be smoked chicken with white sauce, navy beans, and slaw

Bless you, this is good stuff!

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Funky Tide 8

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good to see yall rode it out fairly well, big oak limb down in our backyard but it didn’t hit anything vital, otherwise we are in great shape, except for no power

After looking at all the photos from 30a & Destin of the beach erosion, what’s the plan for beach renourishment with the whole private/public beach battle going on? This wasn’t a deal back when Opal hit.

Surely the government and taxpayers won’t foot the bill to fix/replenish the beaches of private landowners. If they do, then the public should have access to it.