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What would've been the worst hurricane to take a direct hit from?
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:10 pm
Say this is your house and it has 20 foot wooden pilings.
Hurricane Katrina?
Hurricane Andrew?
Hurricane Patricia?
Galveston Hurricane of 1900?
Hurricane Katrina?
Hurricane Andrew?
Hurricane Patricia?
Galveston Hurricane of 1900?
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Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:12 pm to FlyingTigerBo
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By the numbers, the answer is clear. Hurricane Patricia (2015) reached sustained winds of 215 miles per hour — the strongest ever reliably recorded.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:13 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Hurricane Camille was one of the most powerful hurricanes to make landfall in the United States when it hit southern Mississippi in August 1969. A devastating tropical cyclone, Camille was one of four Atlantic hurricanes to strike the United States as a Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson scale, the highest category corresponding to maximum sustained winds[nb 1] of at least 157 mph (253 km/h).
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:13 pm to FlyingTigerBo
If Wilma had made landfall at its minimum measured pressure (882mb), it would have been absolutely catastrophic for the Gulf coast.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:14 pm to FlyingTigerBo
I’m not sure the top picture plus the middle equals the bottom. Seems like a lot of speculation in there.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:14 pm to FlyingTigerBo
I’m pretty sure Katrina’s surge reached a height of 26’ or something like that, so if the wind didn’t destroy the house, the surge and 20’ waves on top would have.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:16 pm to FlyingTigerBo
At least its on wooden filings and not cinder blocks
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:18 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Katrina or Ida.
Ida came in as a 5 and I’ll believe that til I die!
Ida came in as a 5 and I’ll believe that til I die!
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:57 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Camille
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:04 pm to Kafka
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Hurricane Camille was one of the most powerful hurricanes to make landfall in the United States when it hit southern Mississippi in August 1969. A devastating tropical cyclone, Camille was one of four Atlantic hurricanes to strike the United States as a Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson scale, the highest category corresponding to maximum sustained winds[nb 1] of at least 157 mph (253 km/h).
Camille is definitely in the discussion.
But Katrina gets underrated because it hit land while doing an eye wall reconstruction.
Its massive size (bitch just about covered the entire Gulf) and storm momentum from far higher winds just a few hours prior resulted in a far more massive surge and devastation than you would expect from a storm of the max recorded wind speed at landfall.
Id gladly take another 50 mph wind impact if I didn't have to deal with the 30 foot storm surge, with 50 foot waves that Katrina fricked up Mississippi with.
Id submit that Hurricane Wilma (ironically also in the 2005 hurricane season) was a worse one to be hit by at its peak vs Camille.
This post was edited on 8/3/26 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:06 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Michael in 2018 I think is the only hurricane in my lifetime that made landfall as a 5 in the Gulf since Camille.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:06 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Late June of 1957 Hurricane Audrey deserves honorable mention.
The official death toll was 416, but estimates range up to 600 due to bodies swept into the Gulf and never recovered.
The official death toll was 416, but estimates range up to 600 due to bodies swept into the Gulf and never recovered.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:08 pm to LSUDUCKMAN67
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Ida came in as a 5 and I’ll believe that til I die!
I wasn’t on the coast, but on the border of Ascension and Livingston Parishes that night was the worst weather I’ve ever experienced and I’ve been through four major hurricanes, a tornado, and marriage.
This post was edited on 8/3/26 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:11 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Camille.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:14 pm to glassman
Hurricane Hugo was a bad mother too.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:23 pm to FlyingTigerBo
As far as storm surge goes, these would have been the worst. Plus you would have another 10-15 feet of wave action on top of that. So a structure even 20 feet above ground would take a potential beating from waves if not from the surge itself.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:24 pm to F1y0n7h3W4LL
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Hurricane Audrey
Talked to some old timers from Cameron, Chenier Perdue, Little Chenier and Grand Chenier and what they went through that night was unreal.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:35 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Camille.. end thread.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:39 pm to FlyingTigerBo
A hurricane hit the Florida Keys on Labor Day, 1935. It destroyed the Flagler railroad that ran from Miami to Key West.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 7:44 pm to TDsngumbo
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I’m pretty sure Katrina’s surge reached a height of 26’ or something like that, so if the wind didn’t destroy the house, the surge and 20’ waves on top would have.
A scientific survey determined that Katrina's highest storm surge occurred in Biloxi at 10.40 meters, which converts to 34.12 feet. Camille was by comparison a small, compact storm, but made landfall as a CAT-5 wind speed with a lower pressure than Katrina. A single cubic foot of seawater weighs about 64 pounds, so imagine the momentum power of that much water moving. Just about everything in the bullseye of those two storms was just swept clean as though by a bulldozer.
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