GREAT MIAMI HURRICANE

[HURAKAN]

This will be today's worse case scenario for Miami.

[ericinmia]

Yeah... my grandpa onced talked about that one...


Its called coming up the shoot, it would pile so much water into biscayne bay and the miami river far inland that all the canals inland would overflow causing SEVER flooding throughout south fla.

That is the worst case for miami if it comes up from the south-east.

-Eric

[x-y-no]

Yeah ... my great-grand-uncle was in business on Miami Beach then. He was totally wiped out and moved back to Sweden.

He talked about that storm the rest of his life, and absolutely nobody believed him.

[Skywatch_NC]

Yeah... my grandpa onced talked about that one...


Its called coming up the shoot, it would pile so much water into biscayne bay and the miami river far inland that all the canals inland would overflow causing SEVER flooding throughout south fla.

That is the worst case for miami if it comes up from the south-east.

-Eric

And to think of the fish, snakes and even alligators that would be displaced, too.

[logybogy]

No, worst case is a Strong Cat 4/5 coming into South Florida at a sharp angle from the NNW or due north.

That would mean 5 million people, all of Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties would get creamed with the eyewall.

[ericinmia]

lol, yeah my great-grandpa had a hardware store RIGHT on south beach. Now there are clubs there...

My father and uncle still run the business but it has grown to a Much larger company.

Interesting note...

Last year they got new roll down bay doors for all the truck docks (about 8, some are multiple trucks wide)

They are only the second company anywhere to use these new ones... They have to be custom made, for they aren't used very often. Being rated at over 200+ sustained winds...

The walls are more likely to fall down than they are! lol
-Eric

[ericinmia]

No, worst case is a Strong Cat 4/5 coming into South Florida at a sharp angle from the NNW or due north.

That would mean 5 million people, all of Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties would get creamed with the eyewall.

wrong direction though... at that direction there would be NO storm surge...

if the storm came straight up the cost from the sse that would be the worst... eye passes over all the counties you mentioned, however the storm surge would still be tremendous all along the coast...
-Eric

[elvinp]

My Grandmother and Mother told me about that hurricane as it passed close to Punta Gorda and Charlotte Harbor. Pushed tide into Punta Gorda and put a piano in the top of a pie tree in Charlotte Harbor across the river. My mother said they took them from their house in a boat during the storm to higher ground. I still remember that story some 50 years later. Probably why I respect all hurricanes.