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re: Worst hurricane you've experienced?
Posted on 4/8/23 at 12:12 pm to SM1010
Posted on 4/8/23 at 12:12 pm to SM1010
I rode out Andrew, Katrina, Rita, Zeta, and every other hurricane to hit Louisiana since the 80’s, but none rocked my world and had me fearing for my life like Ida. Damn thing stalled and we sat in the eye wall for hours. You could hear shite crumbling all around us but didn’t know if it were my roof or what.
It turned out to be my neighbors roof peeling away a piece at a time. An oak tree fell from across the street and laid across the street and came about 5 feet from hitting my house. It took down power lines and snapped a utility pole in half, where the top half went through the back window of my wife’s Pilot.
Because of Ida, my days of riding out storms are done. With a wife and kids, it’s not worth it.
It turned out to be my neighbors roof peeling away a piece at a time. An oak tree fell from across the street and laid across the street and came about 5 feet from hitting my house. It took down power lines and snapped a utility pole in half, where the top half went through the back window of my wife’s Pilot.
Because of Ida, my days of riding out storms are done. With a wife and kids, it’s not worth it.
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Posted on 4/8/23 at 12:14 pm to CaptainsWafer
Hurricane season begins next month..
Posted on 4/8/23 at 12:17 pm to SmokinBurger
Katrina. I was 8 months pregnant and managed to lose everything. I lived in Long Beach, MS.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 12:34 pm to dyslexiateechur
Side note for people:
If you live in a hurricane prone area you can really improve your chances of your house surviving a storm if you remove any trees that aren’t wind resistant capable of falling on your house.
Trees that are ok:
Palms
Live oak
Crape Myrtles
Magnolia
If it’s not on that list and it’s capable of falling on your house I’d remove it asap.
Pines in particular are the worst because they have very shallow root balls and topple like dominos when the soil gets saturated.
If you live in a hurricane prone area you can really improve your chances of your house surviving a storm if you remove any trees that aren’t wind resistant capable of falling on your house.
Trees that are ok:
Palms
Live oak
Crape Myrtles
Magnolia
If it’s not on that list and it’s capable of falling on your house I’d remove it asap.
Pines in particular are the worst because they have very shallow root balls and topple like dominos when the soil gets saturated.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 12:58 pm to tide06
I was amazed when I moved to FL in '14 and went through Irma and Ian that the palms were unfazed. Oaks, back in Louisiana, were so destructive, to the point of killing people and leveling homes.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 1:24 pm to SM1010
Ivan. 13 hours of winds at 75+. Spent about 2 hours at 120 sustained. I lived on Perdido Bay. We were evacuated so I went to my dads house in Cantonment.
It’s about 150’ higher than sea level, about 15 miles from the coast. The winds were higher in Cantonment than on the coast due to downdrafts of the winds tumbling down. The damage was higher there than where my house was as long as surge didn’t get you.
It’s about 150’ higher than sea level, about 15 miles from the coast. The winds were higher in Cantonment than on the coast due to downdrafts of the winds tumbling down. The damage was higher there than where my house was as long as surge didn’t get you.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 1:40 pm to XenScott
Irma clocked 120 gusts a few miles south of me. The eye was less than 20 miles west. We lost elec. for 13 hours which was an anomaly. Our power runs under ground.
We lost power for a total of aboot 10 minutes for the 4 hurricanes in a month in 2004. At my house Jeanne was the worst of the 4.
I rode out Andrew in BR. It was nothing nice.
We lost power for a total of aboot 10 minutes for the 4 hurricanes in a month in 2004. At my house Jeanne was the worst of the 4.
I rode out Andrew in BR. It was nothing nice.
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