What Began Your Interest in Hurricanes?
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- Audrey2Katrina
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PS Birthday on the peak of hurricane season
I would have a guess that more than a few of us have that. Camille was barreling toward us on my birthday...never forgot that one.
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Flossy 56, Audrey 57, Hilda 64*, Betsy 65*, Camille 69*, Edith 71, Carmen 74, Bob 79, Danny, 85, Elena 85, Juan 85, Florence 88, Andrew 92*, Opal 95, Danny 97, Georges 98*, Isidore 02, Lili 02, Ivan 04, Cindy 05*, Dennis 05, Katrina 05*, Gustav 08*, Isaac 12*, Nate 17, Barry 19, Cristobal 20, Marco, 20, Sally, 20, Zeta 20*, Claudette 21 IDA* 21
- cajungal
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My interest started as a very small child. My parents and other relatives were constantly talking about their experience being in the eyewall with Betsy. My uncle was always showing me the black and white photos and all of Lafourche Parish was virtually wiped out. All the way from Thibodaux to Grand Isle. But, when I rode out Andrew at the age of 16, that is what really got me hooked. The power of nature just amazes me. Seeing photos and watching it on TV is nothing to experiencing a true cane in person.
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- cajungal
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I must of been hit in the head the year of Juan. Because we are the exact same age, live less than 10 miles from each other and I can barely remember it. I was 9, so I should be able to remember more. All I remember is looking out the window and seeing it rain. And I don't remember a thing about Halloween that year. I don't even remember it being cancelled. And as a kid, I loved Halloween.skysummit wrote:When sucky little Juan put my house under water when I was a kid and Halloween had to be cancelled.
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- crabbyhermit
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Wow. This thread just made me go dig out an ancient tracking map that my daddy and then I used to track storms in the 60's and early 70's, it looks like. It was put out by Shell Oil stations and it's dated 1965. On it we've got the tracks of Besty and Camille and a bunch of others. Cool.
First storm i actually remember was Betsy in 65(?). I was 5 years old and I remember sitting in my mama's lap while the storm made the doors and windows shake, but it was kinda exciting, because I felt safe in my mama's lap. Next day I remember we had no school. And there were roof shingles in the alley. I think I found the whole thing exciting and interesting, tracking the storms on the map, getting the flashlights ready, filling the tub...Nash on TV (New Orleanians will know the reference!)
Next one I remember was Camille. I must've been hooked on canes by then, becuase I remember feeling that excitement again. I distinctly remember lying on my stomache in the front room, looking out my front screen door (didn't want to miss any good wind gusts!), and listening to a little transistor radio for the reports. The grown ups were in the next room back. I don't rememeber if we were afraid of Camille coming to NOLA, but there was never any talk of evacuating. A couple days after, I went with my mom and dad to Long Beach, Miss. to help clean up one of the Catholic churches on the beach front that was pretty destroyed. I remember lots of pine branches and sand all over the place, and my daddy picking through the ruins to help with the clean up.
The firsts cane that sorta scared me (here in NOLA) was Andrew. That's the first time a huge # of people evacuated the city. I didn't, and it turned out that all we got in NOLA were some pretty wild gusts (which I once again watched from inside my front screen door until the wee hours, this time in a lawn chair! lol).
I still have a hard time realizing I actually evacuated for Katrina and was out of my home for 4 freakin months. I'll never feel the same excitement about a storm coming again. Though I'm curious to see just how I'm going to react to the next threat--certainly with dread that Katrina may happen all over again, but if it's a small storm, maybe a little of the old excitement, too.....
Maybe I'll change my nick to Betsy2Katrina....
First storm i actually remember was Betsy in 65(?). I was 5 years old and I remember sitting in my mama's lap while the storm made the doors and windows shake, but it was kinda exciting, because I felt safe in my mama's lap. Next day I remember we had no school. And there were roof shingles in the alley. I think I found the whole thing exciting and interesting, tracking the storms on the map, getting the flashlights ready, filling the tub...Nash on TV (New Orleanians will know the reference!)
Next one I remember was Camille. I must've been hooked on canes by then, becuase I remember feeling that excitement again. I distinctly remember lying on my stomache in the front room, looking out my front screen door (didn't want to miss any good wind gusts!), and listening to a little transistor radio for the reports. The grown ups were in the next room back. I don't rememeber if we were afraid of Camille coming to NOLA, but there was never any talk of evacuating. A couple days after, I went with my mom and dad to Long Beach, Miss. to help clean up one of the Catholic churches on the beach front that was pretty destroyed. I remember lots of pine branches and sand all over the place, and my daddy picking through the ruins to help with the clean up.
The firsts cane that sorta scared me (here in NOLA) was Andrew. That's the first time a huge # of people evacuated the city. I didn't, and it turned out that all we got in NOLA were some pretty wild gusts (which I once again watched from inside my front screen door until the wee hours, this time in a lawn chair! lol).
I still have a hard time realizing I actually evacuated for Katrina and was out of my home for 4 freakin months. I'll never feel the same excitement about a storm coming again. Though I'm curious to see just how I'm going to react to the next threat--certainly with dread that Katrina may happen all over again, but if it's a small storm, maybe a little of the old excitement, too.....
Maybe I'll change my nick to Betsy2Katrina....
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- Audrey2Katrina
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There ya go! We've started a trend
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Flossy 56, Audrey 57, Hilda 64*, Betsy 65*, Camille 69*, Edith 71, Carmen 74, Bob 79, Danny, 85, Elena 85, Juan 85, Florence 88, Andrew 92*, Opal 95, Danny 97, Georges 98*, Isidore 02, Lili 02, Ivan 04, Cindy 05*, Dennis 05, Katrina 05*, Gustav 08*, Isaac 12*, Nate 17, Barry 19, Cristobal 20, Marco, 20, Sally, 20, Zeta 20*, Claudette 21 IDA* 21
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I would have to say the first tropical system I ever went through probably brought on some of my interest in meteorology. That storm was Hurricane Opal, back in 1995. It's rather odd, considering I don't remember Hurricane Erin, only months earlier.
Since then, I've tracked a lot of tropical storms/hurricanes.
Since then, I've tracked a lot of tropical storms/hurricanes.
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- Hurricaneman
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- Dionne
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My father was a USAF weather forecaster for 23 years and then a meteorologist with the NWS for another 20 years. Weather has always been an interest of mine.
Although I would have to say that as far as hurricanes go........they were just another event I would casually watch. Until Katrina.
Katrina has altered the path of our lives. I never anticipated a weather event of such magnitude. I do not want to experience another.
Although I would have to say that as far as hurricanes go........they were just another event I would casually watch. Until Katrina.
Katrina has altered the path of our lives. I never anticipated a weather event of such magnitude. I do not want to experience another.
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boca wrote:Hurricane David in 1979 which was my 1st real threat living in SE Florida.
Mine too. I remember being very unimpressed with the outer fringes of David, seeing how worried everyone was. I must have been thinking "is that all?"
It was actually Elena that stoked my interest. We were on the FL Gulf Coast near Tampa, on vacation as Elena bore down. The Gulf was very angry, and the water seemed to be rising rather quickly. We fled for home that night.
I would not see a "real hurricane" until Andrew. Pretty amazing, to have been born in Miami in 1974, and not see a real hurricane for 18 years.
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- Cat5survivor
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- hookemfins
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Hurricane Erin in 1995, crossed the state and brought gusty
winds while I lived here in Tampa Bay. The winds knocked down a few trees-
I had just moved from out of state and had never seen wind like that
I had never seen water that rough as Tampa Bay was during Erin as it
passed over us as a tropical storm.
winds while I lived here in Tampa Bay. The winds knocked down a few trees-
I had just moved from out of state and had never seen wind like that
I had never seen water that rough as Tampa Bay was during Erin as it
passed over us as a tropical storm.
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Ixolib wrote:It was late on a Saturday afternoon - August 16, 1969, to be precise. I was 12 years old and the ominous air was everywhere. In my history, the next day, August 17, was one that will live (and has lived) in infamy as Hurricane Camille changed forever (or created, not sure which) my whole perspective on weather.
I can still hear, smell, taste, and see that day just like it was yesterday - even though it's been nearly 37 years...
I can still see the rain coming down about 4:00-5:00PM that day rushing to make it to KAFB for cover.It seemed like the panic did not really start till that last day(was it sunday?).The weather started off nice and went downhill fast that weekend.It's been etched into the brain for sure like Katrina will be in some ways.Camille took some innocence at the end of that summer for the rest of one's life.But to answer the ? Camille 9yrs old.
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