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Yeah those wobbles are strange and unpredictable.
I have noticed, since moving to FL in 2014, that the early cones of uncertainty don't hold up in the last couple of days. The storms always seem to juke left or right before hitting landfall.
My hunting club is about 25-30 miles from Augusta, ,near Mitchell. We lost a lot of huge hardwood trees, power just restored to the area. Roads going west towards Augusta have reopened but it looks like there is severe damage headed that way. Prayers for everyone impacted and about to be impacted by these storms.
Gainesville area: 4:15 PM still raining - pretty much steady since around noon or so. Some breeze - maybe 10mph ? NSWAG.
Tampa area: Still raining. wind picking to 31 mph. Rain predicted to stop tomorrow morning.
Just talked to my son in Ft, Myers he said it's raining with mild wind so far. The trees are far enough away from him on his place so that they couldn't do any damage if they fell in place. Otherwise, the hurricane would have to directly hit his dwelling to do damage. He also said my other son in Inverness is good to go also. Thanks, GOD, that they are safe. Still praying that the storms/hurricanes will die out and not reach landfall. 😎
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Gainesville, FL area: Been raining all day. Been considered "heavy" rain for most of it. Wind has picked up as well - 24 mph with gusts up to 44. No trees down yet in the neighborhood, but the ground has to be really saturated by now. Wouldn't surprise me to see some trees down tomorrow. Tracker says 2.8 more inches of rain in the next 24 hours - "scheduled" to stop raining around 9AM tomorrow.
Tampa Bay area: Heavy rains all day. Winds at 26 mph with gusts to 62 mph. "scheduled" to stop raining around 3AM tomorrow.
praise Jah it hit land as a cat 3
Yes - the difference could have been a real mess -
Absolutely, a Cat 3 is very rough, but a Cat 4 or Cat 5 can be so much worse.
Right after I graduated in 2005 I took time to help with the cleanup effort immediately after Katrina (Cat 5), and I’ve never seen anything like it before or thank God since. The pictures and videos seen do not come anywhere close to the utter destruction that I witnessed In Coastal Mississippi and in New Orleans.
I helped deliver and set up trailers for people and there was a rich neighborhood in Mississippi where all you could see was what looked like a huge field of huge slabs (foundations) for mansions. The mansions were completely gone! I was told as the huge waves of water regressed back into the Gulf it just took everything with it! In Louisiana and Mississippi it was common to see very big boats stuck in the top of trees or small boats hanging on the side of tall trees or in New Orleans hanging on the side of a high rise where it was tied up and left presumably after a rescue. Just unbelievable sights, I honestly wouldn’t even believe some of the things I saw if I hadn’t seen with my own eyes.
Katrina was Cat 3 when it made landfall in LA and Cat 1-2 when it made another landfall in MS.
Yeah, my mistake. I was thinking it hit as a 5 but it had weakened before making landfall. I just remembered that it was a 5 at one time and assumed wrongly. This makes sense though, I think that hurricanes do usually weaken just prior to making landfall. I’ll never forget what I witnessed in its aftermath though. It took awhile to get some of those images out of my head, and seeing what those people were having to go through was unnerving. Oddly enough, most of those that I delivered trailers to were in good spirits and just happy to see us and very gracious for help.
I was little more than a kid at the time but the one thing that bothered me the most was seeing a family of five with 3 kids under 7 years old. Their house was destroyed and they had been living in a tiny tent for about 2 weeks in what was left of their backyard. The army core people and the Salvation Army had brought them food and some supplies to help them but it was heartbreaking to see little kids living in a tiny tent in what looked like a war zone. Again, as we were setting up their trailer they were so happy and gracious. They kept asking what they could do for us, they had just gotten some coffee and cookies and insisted that we sit with them and have coffee and cookies, which we did. It was both heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. They seemed like wonderful people.
Had 125 Mph sustained winds for over 2 hours…..
The bulk of the damage caused is always from the water, either storm surge or the rain. In the case of Katrina it was the levy failures that destroyed certain areas.
Everyone talks about Naw Leans. Had 16 Foot storm surge on the Ms. Coast…..