Favorite Hurricane

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: Favorite Hurricane

[BurtWorm]

1. Whoops!

Someone tried to vote other and I made 'em vote for Hugo. Well, I would have voted for Hugo, so I'll vote for other for you, whoever you are.

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. Spent the whole storm

sandbagging the family restaurant then eating tons of lobster after the storm finally ebbed.

[BurtWorm]

3. This one, you mean?

Or Bob?

[Cha]

4. I win! My "other" is "Iniki" in 1992 that I was in on the Island of

Kauai!

A point five and $$Billions of Bucks!

[ewagner]

5. Donna, Sept 1960 n/t

[Fenris]

6. I vote for our own HawkerHurricane

:D

[HawkerHurricane]

16. Hawker also makes...

Typhoons and Tempests...

[Anus Retainus]

7. Maria!

The only one they ever made a movie about!! I remember seeing it every school year in grade school in the late 60's!

:smoke:

[BurtWorm]

8. Gee, no one's voting for Isabel.

Is that because the one's who would vote for her have no power?

[Webster Green]

9. Hazel

I was seven years old and living in Western, New york. The whole neighborhood flooded and people were getting around in small boats. I thought it was great! She hit really hard further to the South.

http://i4weather.net/hazel.html

[FDRrocks]

10. Andrew...

I lived in Ft. Lauderdale. I remember trying to play basketball during the calm, it was a laugh riot.

About 120 miles away, Homestead was in a much worse position. RIP, the souls who were taken by that disaster.

[ForrestGump]

11. This 'un

[HawkerHurricane]

17. That's my bird!

late war model, upengined and with retractable tailwheel.

[Lady President]

12. Floyd

Okay, Floyd wasn't the most powerful hurricane, but I happened to be in Atlantic City during it. As an Ohio gal, I never thought I would be in the middle of a hurricane. (Of course, we are getting rain from Isabel right this minute, but it's just your average rain storm.) I still maintain that tornados are scarier.

[LynneSin]

22. Floyd was a big motherf'er

I mean it was a Cat 2 like Isabel, but that thing like stretched over the entire east coast

[wtmusic]

13. Camille

[BurtWorm]

14. I forgot her name was Camille

not Charlotte. The big one from the 1960s.

[HawkerHurricane]

15. HAWKER!!!

There is no finer Hurricane built, my friends.

[regnaD kciN]

18. "Like A..."

Thank you, Neil!

;-)

[Rhiannon12866]

19. I think mine was Irene?

It was in late August of 1998. My cousin and I flew to North Carolina to be with our grandmother who we were told was dying. My grandmother was better, but not out of the woods. My cousin planned to fly home to be with her kids as her husband is, apparently, useless with them. Then the hurricane hit, all flights were cancelled and she had an excuse to stay longer. I could tell she didn't really want to leave, so this worked out for all of us.:-)

[Dookus]

20. Hurricane Belle...

August, 1976...

Passed right over my childhood home on Long Island. I was 15 years old and spent most of the storm sitting in my dad's plymouth watching the storm. The eye passed right over us. Huge storm, followed by calm, clear skies, followed by vicious storm again. What a treat for a teenager.

[LynneSin]

21. AGNES - 1972. The Scourge of Pennsylvania

1972 - the Hurricane that wiped out parts of Pennsylvania!!!

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/marfc/Flood/agnes.html

This hurricane did what no other hurricane has done in a long time. It was born in the Gulf of Mexico, cut through Florida then Georgia and into the Atlantic. Think it was dead ----- NOOOOOOOOO!!! It some how spins in a way that it turns straightupward and back inland and goes back in somewhere in New York and then just sits perfectly still over Pennsylvania for a few days!!

[rppper]

23. hugo...i was at the charleston naval base during that one....

i had just been stationed there and was living in a motel waiting for my apartment to open up 7 days before it hit. they sent my wife and son to columbia to wait out the storm, and made myself and several hundred other e-nothings who were not attatched to any boats or who's boats were out to sea triple line the remaining boats and subs and board up the base. we (myself and four others) were then sent to an empty 3 story, cinder block barracks building to wait out the storm and report any damage.

around 11pm, we lost the roof to the gusts and the stairwells on either side of the barracks looked like rapids due to all the rain. we all went to the first floor showers with flash-lights, battle lanterns and a deck of cards(not to mention vandalized merchandise from the coke and candy machines in the building)after this happened. we were worried about flying debris at this point, as the winds were around 120 to 130mph...substained. the bathroom window was on the leeward side of the building, and was realitivly small.

the eye passed over around 1 am and we ventured out in to the realative calm and surveyed the damage. the roof...i am guessing it was ours, several buildings were minus theirs...was lying in several pieces a few hundred yards away near the perimeter fence surrounding the base. tree's and power lines were down and some littered the parking lots. as the storm began to increase again, you couldnt escape the sound of the wind, which i liken to the sound of a jet at full throttle take off.

it was what we saw, or should i say DIDN'T see, in the light of the morning is what made us all feel lucky to be alive. it looked like b-52's had carpet bombed the immediate area, power lines and trees knocked down, leaves everywhere, debris from the torn and wrecked buildings everywhere, cars blown over...and this was the base.

outside the base, what we could see of it anyway, was equally if not more damaged...the area outside the base could be compared to a third world slum prior to the storm...one of charlestons poorest sections. most of the houses were razed and in messy piles strewn about everywhere. we noticed was the old two story motel just outside gate 1 which was missing half of the 2nd floor and a good portion of it's back wall. it would remain in this condition until i left charleston in '92. the businesses and establishments outside the base were destroyed, or just plain missing. it was the most catostrophic event i have ever seen or will likely see again in my lifetime.