Hurricane Charley Video

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I know that there is already a Charley thread, but seeing as it's on its 12th page, I thought I'd start a new one. The video link is at the bottom right of this page. All I can say is, "Wow!" I am so glad that this storm did not come to Tampa, but at the same time I am very sympathetic for those who were affected by it. Today I was over in Winter Haven to help clean up my friend's lake house and I was amazed at the damage that they got over there. Business signs were down everywhere and trees, limbs, and leaves had covered the town. My friend and his family were in Georgia on vacation during the storm and their lakehouse was left exposed, including their new Master Craft sitting on the boat lift. Other than all of their trees being down (including a huge mango tree, which made me mad cause I like mango) and the screen being ripped off their porch, they didn't recieve much damage. Their neighbor had a jetski blown off of his dock, pushed down the lake, and the wind then rolled it 30 ft up onto the grass slope at Cypress Gardens. Pretty powerful stuff. Enjoy the video and keep those affected by this storm in your thoughts and prayers.
 
Yeah that's what it was like. That roaring sound is so hard to duplicate. I expected a whistling sound but it never whistled.

The sound of the shingles flapping up and down and then disconnecting from the roof was REALLY loud and pretty unnerving.

At least they had daylight - it was really scary not being able to see what was going on, just hearing all the debris smashing in to the house.

Upon further inspection we have more damage than I thought. Several gashes in our (new) vinyl siding, several soft spots in the ceiling that leak water when touched, and some drip spots from windward side wall fixtures (like light switch plates.)

Still no power, which is getting pretty frustrating. I don't want to get used to a cold shower every morning!
 
Ditto that howling sound. Add the fact that our entire apartment building was swaying in the wind, and it gets really scary. Oh yeah, and our "bonus room" (it's like a little add-on indoor room where everyone else has a balcony) was creaking the entire time. I disconnected the computer and put it in the bedroom closet since I thought that room was gonna go at any second. All we heard was the wind and stuff blowing around outside. We kept hearing aluminum being thrown around. Turned out to be all the "stop" signs in our complex.
 
That's some pretty scary footage....I have lived down here all my life, and at our old house I remember seeing nearly exactly the same thing. Mother Nature doesn't fool around!
 
So, never being in a hurricane i don't know, but why were these people not in a basement or inside room? It seems rather dangerous to be sitting by a glass sliding door watching the whole thing happening. I know here in the midwest when a tornado comes through they tell you to get into a basement or an interior room of the house that has no windows. Would the same not be true for a hurricane?
 
Add to that lots of blue lightning. That would be power transformers blowing up in the night, pretty intense. I would say I saw at least 100 flashes as the storm passed.

JT, still no power here in Daytona either. I think the cold showers feel good after sweating all night!
 
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So, never being in a hurricane i don't know, but why were these people not in a basement or inside room? It seems rather dangerous to be sitting by a glass sliding door watching the whole thing happening. I know here in the midwest when a tornado comes through they tell you to get into a basement or an interior room of the house that has no windows. Would the same not be true for a hurricane?

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Basement in South Florida = No Such Thing (we do not have basements in our homes down here, due to sandy soil and the water table being too high, you'd have a lake under your house).
 
yup.. and when you run for cover.. it's to the bathroom tub making sure you cover yourself with something in case hte mirror breaks! there is no safe place without a basement... we don't have them out here in AZ either...they're just now starting to build some houses with basements...

we had some GREAT monsoons last night and someone even got a photo of a funnel cloud... we don't normally see those...

that video is just amazing! i'm surprised the patio door didn't break... the wind would have scooped them out instead of leaving them where they were...
 
Yup. Kristie's right. The entire video I was thinking "Get away from the window, idiot!!" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

That was some awesome and scary visuals!!

I've lived in FL for 35 years and have never had a hurricane hit us (Tampa Bay) directly. Those winds in that video were INCREDIBLE! Not sure our 1926 wood-frame bungalow surrounded by other 1920's wood-frame bungalows and OLD oak trees would have survived.
 
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So, never being in a hurricane i don't know, but why were these people not in a basement or inside room? It seems rather dangerous to be sitting by a glass sliding door watching the whole thing happening. I know here in the midwest when a tornado comes through they tell you to get into a basement or an interior room of the house that has no windows. Would the same not be true for a hurricane?

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I didn't watch the video, but I'm going to assume that they are standing in the downwind "lee" of their house. WIth the upwind side blocking the wind and catching any debries you can stand outside and not even get wet, since the rain is "fallling" sideways.

A hurricane only has wind coming from one direction, untill the eye comes and it switches. Hurricane winds are only 120 mph. Local building codes should allow a house to stand up to a Cat 1 or 2 hurricane. Trailers are a diffrent story.

On the other hand a Tornado has winds estimated to be in the 200-300 mph range. This will level just about any house. Hope you have good insurance. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Even Tornado chasers call Hurricane chasers crazy... at least the Tornado chasers are smart enough to stay at a safe distance.
 
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Even Tornado chasers call Hurricane chasers crazy... at least the Tornado chasers are smart enough to stay at a safe distance.

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Tornados are fairly small, less than a mile wide. They are fairly easy to stay out of the way of.

Hurricanes are huge, covering areas larger than whole countries, and almost as unpreditiable.

After Flyod in 1999 it was generally agreed that evacuating southern FL in 48-72 hrs is impossible. In most cases people are better off in their houses and shelters in Miami than stuck in their cars on I-95.
 
A Tornado can pass over in just a few minuets, however during a hurricane it lasts for hours, during that time you start to get a little board, and naturally you just like to look out, when hurricane Andrew came through (I was living in FL at the time) we sat and watched most of the storm, I can remember I woke up at like 3am to the sound of something hitting the house, then stayed awake until the morning. That was some site!
 
That video reminds me of the hurricanes I've been through, too. I remember my older sister telling me not to look out the windows, but I did anyway. It freaked me out. It was one of those things that just looks completely wrong and out of this world.
 
Tornado's can pass over in a few mins, but often you are supposed to be taking shelter for a few hours durring all the rough weather. My family always passed the time in the basement by playing cards or other board games. My dad would like to go look outside and often didn't want to come down to the basement but i freaked out too much about it so he came down. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Doesn't dialup suck? I generally turn off all of the forum images when my only access is dialup on the road.
 
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