Has anyone actually been in a major hurricane?

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by salty blues
http:///forum/post/2753756
RITA 2005-- Trees down and roofs ripped all over west central Louisiana. Large red oak tree at the end of my house blew down. The branches were touching the house. Minor roof damage. We were lucky.
Folks in my neck of the woods were without power for nine days. This was not much fun considering we had high humidity with daytime temps in the mid 90's.
The lifesaver was a portable generator and a window a/c unit for the bedroom.
In huntsville, we had rolling blackouts for two weeks. And those were the hottest two weeks of the summer literally.

 

[alexmir]

My parents brought a generator over, so i am SO ready to get through this hurricane.

 

[gliderjohn]

Been through a number of them here in Philadelphia. Luckily, we've got New Jersey to take the brunt of the storms.

 

[jerthunter]

There were a couple in the yearish time I was in SC. One was Dennis, turned out it wasn't big or atleast it didn't hit anywhere near SC. We went to the beach, either the day before or after it showed up, and there were some nice waves, the water was a bit choppy and cold. The other one, for some reason I can't remeber the name, (I remember Dennis because when we were at the beach someone had written "Thanks for the waves Dennis!" in rocks.), it showed up maybe a week or two after Dennis. I ended up staying through it because they said it was a voluntary evacuations and by the time we were told that we could go traffic heading out was already at a standstill.
It wasn't that bad, lots of wind, tons of rain, tree branches getting knocked down, but we didn't lose power until it was almost over so me and a few of my friends all hung out and watched movies. I do remember walking outside to go from one room to another at one point and the wind made it nearly impossible to move.
All in all it was a rather interesting experience and since nothing of mine was lost or damaged I was happy. Although I wouldn't want to make it a yearly thing like it is for people in some places.

 

[flricordia]

Hurricane Erin. Knocked large oak tree over onto the house. That was a cool storm. Watched the pine trees across the street bend over parellel to the ground and snap back upright, then over and back, over and back. Stranded for a 4 days in the neighborhood before trees were cleared out.
Hurrican Ivan brought a large oak down on the house now in. Stranded for week and no power for over 2 weeks. Slept through it all. Pines all over the area were permenantly bent over from the continuous winds. Had to all be taken down. Couldn't get to Pensacola for about 2 weeks and then it took over 2 hours to travel 25 miles to work for almost a year till the Escambia Bay bridge was rebuilt. Some days on the way home it took 4 hours on the roads.

 

[groupergenius]

I'm 45. I have lived 36 of those years in Florida.....need I say more?

 

[bionicarm]

Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/2753280
You still live in houston?
Nope, San Antonio. Half my family is still there. We sent my mother to my sister's in Austin because she still has a major phobia about hurricanes. Her mother told her all the stories about the 1900 hurricane in Galveston. My sister and brother faired well. Only some tree branches down, and a little damage to their fences. No power of course. They have generators, and will stay for a week or two at the most. My childhood home that's over 60 years old only lost some shingles and some gutters. Guess they built them a lot better back then. Our family also still owns my grandfather's storefront that's down on The Strand in Galveston. Not looking forward to seeing what happened to that. Probably won't get down there anytime soon.

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by bionicarm
http:///forum/post/2756316
Nope, San Antonio. Half my family is still there. We sent my mother to my sister's in Austin because she still has a major phobia about hurricanes. Her mother told her all the stories about the 1900 hurricane in Galveston. My sister and brother faired well. Only some tree branches down, and a little damage to their fences. No power of course. They have generators, and will stay for a week or two at the most. My childhood home that's over 60 years old only lost some shingles and some gutters. Guess they built them a lot better back then. Our family also still owns my grandfather's storefront that's down on The Strand in Galveston. Not looking forward to seeing what happened to that. Probably won't get down there anytime soon.
Yeah, that was under water, I find it amuzing they build a seawall on the outbound side, yet didn't build one on the inside of the island. So it flooded from back to front. They said it got six blocks from the seawall.