re: Worst hurricane you've experienced?

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OWLFAN86

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You and oweo deserve each other.

Issac.

Ex told me she didn’t love me and never loved me and wanted a divorce during that one.

Perfect opportunity and you let it slip away. Officers that 2x4 came out of nowhere. My baby never had a chance

Andrew was pretty bad, I remember being without power for awhile, but I was kind of young so I don't remember it.. So I would have to say Gustav.

A Pine tree fell onto the shop, which is connected to the house, there is a breeze way in between the two, but I can't ever remember watching trees bend like I saw during Gustav.

Of course some of the other tough ones I have been though was at night, but Gustav was during the day. The trees were bending like rubber then all of a sudden they would snap.

There was a tornado... Thankfully is was small and it evidently was going up as it passed on side of my house (which knocked the tree over onto the shop). There is a field behind my house and you could see where it came back on the ground. It took out a huge pecan tree in the field and then maybe 20 yards beyond that tree it was as if it just went away.

We were out of power for Katrina for about 7 days and then for Gustav for 3 or 4 days, but considering what other people were dealing with, that wasn't a big deal at all.

But Gustav probably came as close as.. well at one point it sort of reminded me of the Wizard of Oz when Dorthey has stuff passing by her window in the tornado. There were items in the air.. Like shingles just flying by the window in my living room.

And for some reason, I guess the eye was close, but it had slacked off for a bit and I am talking about within a minute of slacking off there were people in their vehicles riding around. Then maybe 20 mins later it picked back up and there was a car in the street, close o the front of my house that stopped and put their emergency lights on and stayed their for a good 45. And it was as bad or maybe worse than when they stopped but just all of a sudden they took off. That's just something I remember about Gustav, but yeah.. Just thinking about it, I could do without a hurricane for the rest of my life.

Gustav - one I actually stayed for

We evacuated to BR for Katrina - been here ever since, which was worse than Gustav but at least I wasn’t on a roof waiting for the coast guard

Laura in 2020. Lost my home and everything in it. Stayed at the plant for a few weeks until a sister made room for me.

Betsy cause we stayed. katrina I left, Ida I stayed, wasn't fun. It almost was Ivan, it
kept veering all over the place. Almost left NOLA and went to Gulf Shores. We got water to the floor joists of the raised home on Little Lagoon, my Jeep would have been submerged. Good decision to stay here.

1969 Hurricane Camille, from the Virginia end of things.

We'd heard about what she did to the Gulf Coast and to expect some rain. Understatement of the century for the Mountains of Virginia. About dark it started raining, then the lightening started and the wind and the noise didn't stop until an hour or so before sunrise. Where I was there was lots of tree damage. A couple of weeks later my Ground Water Geology class went up to Nelson County where there was one rain barrel that had overflowed at 36" compressed in a few hours. Landslides, homes washed away, bridges out, the smell of dead in most of the reworked stream and river beds, trees all broken at the same level. 119 dead and several hundred million in damages. With no warning.

Laura by a mile

In person -
Betsy in 1965. I was 7 years old but I can remember looking out of the window and seeing the trees bent over sideways. The electricity was out for weeks.

A couple of years later we evacuated for a hurricane a whopping 10 miles from our house to a hotel in the French Quarter. A tornado hit the hotel and blew a piece of sheet metal through our window.

For Zeta I went outside during the storm and when the eye was over me. That was a cool experience, but I did not find the storm that bad.


The worst hurricane damage I suffered by far was in Ida, but I was watching that one on television from Paso Robles, California before the LSU - UCLA game.
EDIT to give a shout out to my wife. About 3 weeks before Katrina we were at a luncheon and Bob Breck was the guest speaker. He gave a fascinating talk on hurricanes. At one point he said "There is probably no one here who has actually been through a Cat 5 hurricane". My wife got to raise her hand and say that she experienced Camille from the Mississippi Gulf Coast.