Hurricane Juan (1985)

[Ptarmigan]

Does anyone here in the Gulf Coast remember Hurricane Juan? I saw satellite images of that hurricane. Quite a hurricane it was. It pulled a loop the loop over the Gulf Coast and nearly hit the Texas coast in late October. It was a rainmaker in the Gulf Coast and in the Carolinas and West Virginia. Based on the satellite image, it looks more extratropical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Juan_%281985%29

[Ed Mahmoud]

I think Juan was the storm that sank the Penrod 6 drilling rig under contract to Chevron. Now Chevron is usually the first oil company to pull crews out of the Gulf at the first hint of a storm.

[sunny]

Oh I remember Juan, he didn't seem to want to make landfall! A Halloween hurricane

[wobblehead]

Yes I remember Juan. Here in Mobile we were very surprised the storm went inland and then returned back to open water. What I remember most was the skys were clear in Mobile as the storm passed south of us and remained clear as the storm made landfall. Without weather reports you would never had known a storm was that close.

[MGC]

Yes, I remember Juan. Juan blew my metal shed from my backyard to my neighbors backyard. So, I had direct damage from Juan....MGC

[CrazyC83]

Of course the flooding was the real destruction. I'm surprised the name lasted for another 18 years; $3 billion in damage (in today's figures) is usually enough to get a name retired...

[sunny]

Of course the flooding was the real destruction. I'm surprised the name lasted for another 18 years; $3 billion in damage (in today's figures) is usually enough to get a name retired...

I remember LaPlace looked like a lake.

[HurricaneRobert]

They must've been shy about retiring four names in 1985, because Juan and Kate should've been gone too.

[golong]

I remember Juan well! I was working out of Cameron, LA offshore for a driller contracted by Chevron. Worked in 50+ mph winds for three days...and with little notice the ole boy upgraded to hurricane status with little time to effectively evacuate. We all made it back to shore safely, but anumber of hands working for Penrod were not as lucky. A rainy affair as I recall. The chopper ride to the bank was no fun!
golong

[Steve]

I lacked even an ounce of energy after several days of hurricane partying for Juan. The thing I remember the most (besides the endless downpours filling up the streets every time) was the video footage from lower Lafourche and Terrebonne where all the coffins were popping up out of the ground from the flooding. Those boxes were literally just floating down the highways and along with the rest of the debris. Obviously we don't bury our dead in the ground here (usually) but further south where it is higher, that wasn't really an issue.

Steve

[weunice]

I was 12 at the time. I remember rain rain rain and more rain. Most irritating storm I remember actually.

[Air Force Met]

Does anyone here in the Gulf Coast remember Hurricane Juan? I saw satellite images of that hurricane. Quite a hurricane it was. It pulled a loop the loop over the Gulf Coast and nearly hit the Texas coast in late October. It was a rainmaker in the Gulf Coast and in the Carolinas and West Virginia. Based on the satellite image, it looks more extratropical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Juan_%281985%29

Yep...I remember Jaun. I was 16. I skipped school to track it when it was close to making landfall. What I remember was how cold it was...in the 60's...and the constant light rain (I was in Brazoria county)...and windy. The temp, rain and wind made it a little chilly for a tropical system.

[Javlin]

Does anyone here in the Gulf Coast remember Hurricane Juan? I saw satellite images of that hurricane. Quite a hurricane it was. It pulled a loop the loop over the Gulf Coast and nearly hit the Texas coast in late October. It was a rainmaker in the Gulf Coast and in the Carolinas and West Virginia. Based on the satellite image, it looks more extratropical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Juan_%281985%29

Yep...I remember Jaun. I was 16. I skipped school to track it when it was close to making landfall. What I remember was how cold it was...in the 60's...and the constant light rain (I was in Brazoria county)...and windy. The temp, rain and wind made it a little chilly for a tropical system.

Now he gives away his age I was at the Saints game with Wife and Inlaws when the screen told us Juan was there or approaching??Well when we left the game the wind was hollowing between the buildings made it tuff to get back to the Hilton on Poydras.Let's see AFMet I was 24 at the time and I had this vision of you as gray maybe,go figure.Kevin

[Air Force Met]

Now he gives away his age I was at the Saints game with Wife and Inlaws when the screen told us Juan was there or approaching??Well when we left the game the wind was hollowing between the buildings made it tuff to get back to the Hilton on Poydras.Let's see AFMet I was 24 at the time and I had this vision of you as gray maybe,go figure.Kevin

Nope...not gray...I've got a full head of hair that I hide behind a razor and a layer of scalp.

[Honeyko]

I remember the radar loops from that "reluctant" storm, in particular one in which the eyewall of the storm was tucked *inside* a bay (can't remember if it was Mobile or someplace in LA), spinning away stationary for half a day, and not weakening.

[Steve]

>>I remember the radar loops from that "reluctant" storm, in particular one in which the eyewall of the storm was tucked *inside* a bay (can't remember if it was Mobile or someplace in LA), spinning away stationary for half a day, and not weakening.

That would have been Danny 1997:

http://www.usouthal.edu/meteorology/hurricanedanny.html

36" in Dauphin Island.

Can't remember if that was the one that sat in Mobile Bay and emptied it out for a while or not. We drove on the I-10 across it soon after, and that was a trip.

Steve

[Honeyko]

You're right, Steve; I was thinking of Danny.

26" of rain in seven hours at Dauphin Island, with 37+" overall -- that's what they call a "frog-strangler".

[sunny]

Can't remember if that was the one that sat in Mobile Bay and emptied it out for a while or not. We drove on the I-10 across it soon after, and that was a trip.

Steve

It was. I had a friend who lived on the Bay side of Dauphin Island when Danny hit.