Hurricane Michael and Mexico Beach

[Value Buy]

It is just so hard to imagine what happened here yesterday.
I pray 99.9% of the people  actually evacuated in time.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mexico-beach-fl-before-and-after-it-was-torn-apart/vi-BBOeRV0

[Tennesseer]

Looks a lot like Pass Christian after 1969's hurricane Camille.

[Tennesseer]

Oct 11, 2018 11:22:38 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

It is just so hard to imagine what happened here yesterday.
I pray 99.9% of the people  actually evacuated in time.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mexico-beach-fl-before-and-after-it-was-torn-apart/vi-BBOeRV0

What? Do you have something against the 0.1% who didn't evacuate in time? (Just kidding.)

[happyhoix]

It's just amazing what wind can do.

We were in our house when a class 3 tornado took part of the roof off, and there were several houses in our neighborhood (and all the trees) that were flattened. However, if you drove five minutes in either direction from the path of the tornado, there was almost no damage at all. So if you could dig your car out of your garage, you could drive to a nearby hotel for food, hot water, electricity, etc.

With a hurricane of this strength, I would imagine there is no driving 4 - 5 minutes in a different direction to find a nice hotel room to stay in temporarily. 

And the big thing for our neighborhood was the sheer volume of debris to be dragged off - fallen trees, destroyed homes, random furniture/clothes/junk from other people's houses that ends up in your hard. We raked and picked up debris out of our yard for a solid 6 months. And that was just what was destroyed in the tornado's path - I can't imagine the number of trailers that will be required to haul off all the debris from this hurricane in that poor town. It'll fill a landfill. At least, there should be FEMA money to help pay for the disposal (FEMA gave our town money for that).

[Value Buy]

Oct 11, 2018 11:41:54 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Oct 11, 2018 11:22:38 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

It is just so hard to imagine what happened here yesterday.
I pray 99.9% of the people  actually evacuated in time.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mexico-beach-fl-before-and-after-it-was-torn-apart/vi-BBOeRV0

What? Do you have something against the 0.1% who didn't evacuate in time? (Just kidding.)

LOL, I imagine maybe 5% stayed......just hoping it was one tenth of one percent

[whitney]

oh wow  , px worth a thousand words. 

[billisonboard]

Oct 11, 2018 11:45:03 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

It's just amazing what wind can do.

We were in our house when a class 3 tornado took part of the roof off, and there were several houses in our neighborhood (and all the trees) that were flattened. However, if you drove five minutes in either direction from the path of the tornado, there was almost no damage at all. So if you could dig your car out of your garage, you could drive to a nearby hotel for food, hot water, electricity, etc.

With a hurricane of this strength, I would imagine there is no driving 4 - 5 minutes in a different direction to find a nice hotel room to stay in temporarily. 

...

I was on Guam when a similar storm hit. It was a major plane flight to get to an area not destroyed.

For me, the most amazing thing the wind did was to bend round flagpoles.

[Value Buy]

Over 250 people decided to ride it out.......

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/unimaginable-destruction-hurricane-smashes-rows-of-houses/ar-BBOe7A9?li=BBnb7Kz

I imagine some people will never be found.

[happyhoix]

Oct 11, 2018 13:45:51 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Oct 11, 2018 11:45:03 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

It's just amazing what wind can do.

We were in our house when a class 3 tornado took part of the roof off, and there were several houses in our neighborhood (and all the trees) that were flattened. However, if you drove five minutes in either direction from the path of the tornado, there was almost no damage at all. So if you could dig your car out of your garage, you could drive to a nearby hotel for food, hot water, electricity, etc.

With a hurricane of this strength, I would imagine there is no driving 4 - 5 minutes in a different direction to find a nice hotel room to stay in temporarily. 

...

I was on Guam when a similar storm hit. It was a major plane flight to get to an area not destroyed.

For me, the most amazing thing the wind did was to bend round flagpoles.

In our tornado, the wind flattened one of our gutters and wrapped it around the tulip poplar in the front yard - then impaled a branch of our neighbor's fake Christmas tree (that was in their attic next door) into the side of the tree. we left them up - the gutter fell off after about 5 years, the fake Christmas tree limb is still impaled in the side of the tree...

That was with a tornado, though - you expect that kind of projectile damage in limited bursts like that - I can't imagine that kind of wind velocity stretching for miles and lasting for hours like it does with one of these category 4 hurricanes.

[billisonboard]

Oct 11, 2018 14:13:32 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

... lasting for hours like it does with one of these category 4 hurricanes.

Typhoon Pamela took 18 hours to traverse the small island of Guam.

[NoNamePerson]

[NoNamePerson]

Meant say that those pictures are from a friends FB page. Was just a few - to depressing to post more.

[resolution]

This is why I was so angry with that North Carolina man that decided to ride out Florence, and all the news sites that were publishing stories making him sound so heroic for staying.