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Furry said:
Hurricanes are pretty gay compared to tornados. They make a lot of noise and people panic buy all the water and batteries in the path of them, but usually the damage is limited to a few trees knocking over onto house and a couple poorly built houses getting destroyed. More than a dozen miles inland your basically fine unless a tree might fall on you or your house is built in a deep river valley and you forgot flood insurance.

Tornados at full force will fuck up even well-built places hardcore.
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the breadth of the storm is what gets a lot of people’s attention as you mentioned, and more recently flooding

Harvey was scary levels of water I don’t know what kind of inland flooding you have seen but 7-12 feet in friends houses 65 miles inland was messed up.

I went to lake Charles Louisiana as part of a relief effort days after the storm and it was pretty ugly.

from a raw wind Point perspective however you are correct I tell people this all the time about risk in Dallas versus Houston for example. This close to the coast the blanket of moisture prevents supercell activity and significant tornadoes from forming really interesting
 
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LOL. I mentioned that livecam on coast where you can see surge rising big time on a stream of a storm watcher just staring at a fucking radar map and was banned from the channel for "promoting other storm chasers".
Bitch you staring at a radar map for 2 hours. Grow a dick motherfucker.
 
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Furry said:
Hurricanes are pretty gay compared to tornados. They make a lot of noise and people panic buy all the water and batteries in the path of them, but usually the damage is limited to a few trees knocking over onto house and a couple poorly built houses getting destroyed. More than a dozen miles inland your basically fine unless a tree might fall on you or your house is built in a deep river valley and you forgot flood insurance.

Tornados at full force will fuck up even well-built places hardcore.
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I lived through hurricanes for 50+ years. What has made hurricanes less deadly is building codes and modern communications. When I was a kid there was a chance you didn't even know a storm was coming until maybe a day out. Mid part of the last century and earlier you had no notice. It just hit.

Run a Cat 4 or 5 into someplace like NY with its all wood houses and see what happens when all those roofs come off and the wind gets in and blows the walls out.

I would ride out a cat 5 in a modern house with poured concrete walls, storm glass and a storm rated roof any day.
 
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Media- It's a Cat 5 monster. It's a nasty war, a bug war! We can ill afford another Katridoo!
Me watching NO cam- Looks like they can skip watering that balcony plant today
 
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The big thing for most people in a hurricane is long term power outages that go on forever. Even 150 miles inland or more you can go weeks with no power, everyone you know has no power, and every store you normally go to has no power. I lived 3 hours north of Houston and Rita did a number on me power wise and everyone in our region. I looked it up on wiki and the affected regions it had Great Lakes as well. Odd.

During Andrew I was looking out the back of the house at 2am or whatever and had the flood lights on. Saw a 22" diameter water oak take a near 45 degree bend. Not from coming out of the ground. The bole of the tree just had enough, then snapped back.

The only person I knew that died in a hurricane was a friend had gotten married in 1992 right before Andrew. That night the power was out and trees down everywhere and she had a severe nervous deal and EMS couldn't get to her and she died of a heart attack. Odd. But that's another thing, during and after a hurricane you have to be prepare to be on your own for a quite a while. Food, medicine, power if you can, medical help, water. Have it or you should have left.

2005 was the year of hurricanes. Not just Katrina, but then Rita. I think they ran out of letters to start names with that year.

Another bad deal is hurricanes bring tornados. One of the "official" deaths from Katrina was someone in Kentucky killed by a tornado spawned from Katrina.
 
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Local news out of Baton Rouge and New Orleans almost totally shut down since last night. Just updates on school closures and shit lol.

But yeah man has always and probably always will leave near water/coast. Overwhelming percentage of Americans live within I think 2 hours of a coast or something like that.

Nuke plant across the river from New Orleans looks like it's going to take a direct hit.
 
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HD Live feeds:​

EarthCam Live: Bourbon Street, New Orleans​

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Random Street in New Orleans Live​

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Some dude ("storm tracker") driving around SE Louisiana (Houma, LA) Live​

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Texas Storm Trackers (two dudes driving around) in Lockport, LA (South of Narlins) Live​

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Waiting to see a truck hit with a lawn chair at 100+ mph. Bottom one guy just went through Golden Meadow I think.

It was Golden Meadow and he drove into Lockport he finally said. Golden Meadow was easy to pick out from the bridge they have.

Surprised he didn't get a speed ticket while sitting still. Town that caused the state to pass a law that a town couldn't make 100% of their income from speeding tickets. Everyone has gotten one there. Cop met him and slowed down surprised he didn't issue him a ticket.
 
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Juvarisx said:
severestudios.com

Live Storm Chasers, Tornado Videos & Weather News

The leading live storm chasing streaming platform & online source for extreme weather news. Watch the nations top storm chasers track tornados in real-time.
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the John Humpres2 cam is the furthest south, shit's scary
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...and it's gone...
...and it's back...
...and it's gone again...

For reference: It is in Grand Isle, on the north (worst) side of the eye.

Map for Grand Isle on the coast:
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Most all structures on Grand Isle are camps and people know they are subject to often washing away or heavy flooding. It's a place to surf fish and spend a few days at a camp mostly.

Pumps in New Orleans are going down due to lack of power one by one. No backup of course after billions and billions spent post Katrina. That money got siphoned off I'm sure.
 
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Borzak said:
The big thing for most people in a hurricane is long term power outages that go on forever. Even 150 miles inland or more you can go weeks with no power, everyone you know has no power, and every store you normally go to has no power. I lived 3 hours north of Houston and Rita did a number on me power wise and everyone in our region. I looked it up on wiki and the affected regions it had Great Lakes as well. Odd.

During Andrew I was looking out the back of the house at 2am or whatever and had the flood lights on. Saw a 22" diameter water oak take a near 45 degree bend. Not from coming out of the ground. The bole of the tree just had enough, then snapped back.

The only person I knew that died in a hurricane was a friend had gotten married in 1992 right before Andrew. That night the power was out and trees down everywhere and she had a severe nervous deal and EMS couldn't get to her and she died of a heart attack. Odd. But that's another thing, during and after a hurricane you have to be prepare to be on your own for a quite a while. Food, medicine, power if you can, medical help, water. Have it or you should have left.

2005 was the year of hurricanes. Not just Katrina, but then Rita. I think they ran out of letters to start names with that year.

Another bad deal is hurricanes bring tornados. One of the "official" deaths from Katrina was someone in Kentucky killed by a tornado spawned from Katrina.
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I lived up in Broward during Andrew. You know those massive steel light poles that run along University drive (27th Ave for you Miamians).? We were watching them twist and bend through the storm. It was surreal.

And you are right about the power outages. FPL is shit. Having your own generator is a must if you live in a hurricane prone area. I had co-workers who lived in the Redlands and after Andrew they said it was like the 1800's. Everyone armed and guarding each other's houses on their blocks 24/7 with signs everywhere saying looters will be shot.
 
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