Hurricane Damage

[storm_in_a_teacup]

It's been 10 years since the last post, lets bring this thread back to life

Centuries old Guiuan Church before Haiyan
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Guiuan Church after Haiyan
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Blown off PAGASA doppler radar radome in Guiuan, Samar - Typhoon Haiyan
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More of Haiyan
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Coconut tree punctured by a 4X2 wood (reportedly yacal wood) in Baganga, Davao Oriental after Typhoon Bopha
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This coconut tree can still be considered lucky.
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So what category would you say these winds are?

[tolakram]

So what category would you say these winds are?

Haiyan was a category 5 by our standards, one of the strongest storms many of us have ever witnessed.

[storm_in_a_teacup]

So what category would you say these winds are?

Haiyan was a category 5 by our standards, one of the strongest storms many of us have ever witnessed.

Well, I have to admit when I saw the OP say there were no pictures of Category 5 damage I thought "well surely there are typhoon pictures because those get that strong more often..." then of course I guess someone answered that question.

[Scorpion]

It's too bad there were no chasers close by to the areas hit by the Cat 5 winds of Haiyan. That would have been a great opportunity. The live videos of Jeff Pietrowski in Harvey are probably the most impressive I have seen for a hurricane, and those were probably upper Cat 3.

[mrbagyo]

Let me add another one - Cyclone Pam Defoliation / Destruction in Vanuatu taken by a pilot.

It's too bad there were no chasers close by to the areas hit by the Cat 5 winds of Haiyan. That would have been a great opportunity. The live videos of Jeff Pietrowski in Harvey are probably the most impressive I have seen for a hurricane, and those were probably upper Cat 3.

The Philippines had already seen 15+ category 5 landfalls over the last 60 years (there's already 4 cat 5 "frogs" since 2010) and it's still difficult to find those image and footages - just shows how rare those things are. It's not only about being at the right place & time - you also got to have that "Steel Cojones"
BTW, the footage taken by Jim Edds in Tacloban looks atleast Cat 3.

[mrbagyo]

IRMA can add a lot of hurricane wind footages and damages here.
The best video that I have found so far is from Luriann Briggs out of British Virgin Island which showed the conditions during the front side, the eye part, and the violent back side.

IRMA's Front side
 https://twitter.com/briggsoto/status/905468996845264897




The Eye
 https://twitter.com/briggsoto/status/905481521481601025




The Violent Back Side
 https://twitter.com/briggsoto/status/905533099630579713




 https://twitter.com/briggsoto/status/905491237595209729

[mrbagyo]

 https://twitter.com/adamonzon/status/915030401357410304




Btw, what's the janka hardness rating of Royal Palm Trees? (bn: Roystonea Regia)