Which East Coast Hurricane since 1995 was the Worst

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Which EC Hurricane was the worst since 1995

Erin
0
No votes
Bertha
0
No votes
Fran
3
6%
Bonnie
0
No votes
Dennis
0
No votes
Floyd
14
29%
Irene
0
No votes
Isabel
9
19%
Alex
0
No votes
Charley
10
21%
Frances
1
2%
Gaston
0
No votes
Jeanne
1
2%
Katrina
4
8%
Ophelia
0
No votes
Rita
2
4%
Wilma
4
8%
 
Total votes: 48

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#21 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:27 pm

Charley was a 150 mph cat4...Isabel was 100 mph cat2. I was watching Isabel as it made it to cat5. Then it was shear/dry air got into it like Floyd. In which Isabel weaken like Floyd. Charley on the hand bombed moving in...I remember waking up in turning on the tv in seeing that Charley was a cat4. I just got done staying up fellowing as it went over Cuba...Before I called it a night I seen that the storm had started to become organize very fast. In a eye even started to appear on Ir satellite. I posted that Charley was likely going to be a cat4. I woke up 6 hours later in holy!

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#22 Postby wxmann_91 » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:29 pm

I voted Fran, though if I saw that Floyd was in the poll I would've voted for that. :x :oops: Anyway those are IMO the worst, and Isabel would've been third.
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#23 Postby NC George » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:42 pm

f5 wrote:if Andrew were listed he would get all the votes the same way Katrina would on the gulf side


Except Andrew was 1992, so it doesn't fall into the time frame stipulated in the subject.

I vote for Floyd. As to the flooding claims about eastern NC - yes. It took weeks for the water to subside.

Here's a funny tale. I was working at Domino's Pizza, and the first week of the flood a couple of Natl Guard trucks rolled into our parking lot. The officer in charge walked to the door, and asked directions to a certain location, across the river as we call it. It was around 11 pm, and myself (the driver) and the manager were the only people there. We both looked at each other and said at the same time, "You can't get there from here." Which was true, unless you first drove to Raleigh - 85 miles west. The unit was from Kinston, and they had to make the same detour to get from Kinston to Greenville in order to cross the Neuse River. Sadly for them, they should have taken US 64 to get to the north side of the Tar River, and instead they took US 264, which goes S of the Tar. The OIC looked at his orders and they were 3 days old. He then called HQ, which cancelled the mission, and told them the return to Kinston. One of the troops grumbled they had already been travelling 12 hours that day just to get from Kinston to Greenville (normally a 30-45 minute drive,) and they should just get hotel rooms for the night. The CO got indignent, told the man he was a soldier, buck up, and they were returning home that night! HU-HA
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#24 Postby terstorm1012 » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:43 am

Floyd for flooding
Isabel for power outages (5 million at its height if I remember correctly---it was months before they were totally back to normal in some spots)
then Charley.

For geography's sake, I consider Florida its own seperate geographical area. East Coast to me means GA/SC on northward.
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#25 Postby StormScanWx » Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:10 pm

1) Floyd

2) Isabel

3) Charley

4) Katrina

5) Jeanne

6) Frances
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#26 Postby Jim Cantore » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:06 pm

1. Floyd

2. Isabel

3. Fran

4. Bertha

5. Jeanne

These are from Experence

I have Fran because of the remnents bringing 50mph winds

Jeanne because of walls of rain and 40mph winds
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#27 Postby SoFla Dave » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:24 pm

Here's the first and probably only vote for Francis...

On a purely emotional and personal level, this storm killed the innocence we had. That no matter how many hurricanes hit, they would always be way down south, or up in the Carolinas, or over in the gulf. After decades of missing the Treasure Coast (or at least PSL), we found out that we were as vulnerable as anyone else. Sure, Jeanne might've been stronger, or Wilma scarier, but before Francis, I was starting to think we would never be hit (again). :(
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#28 Postby DESTRUCTION5 » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:16 am

Had Floyd come 60 miles further west it would be 100% Floyd..
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#29 Postby Zackiedawg » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:30 pm

For personal experience, it would be:

1. Wilma
2. Frances
3. Jeanne
4. Katrina

Because those are the ones I had to go through, and the order of damage caused to my personal property and town by each storm!

For overall impact of the storms worldwide, it would be:

1. Katrina
2. Jeanne
3. Wilma
4. Isabel

Katrina's overall damage to the gulf coast region in financial damage, death toll, and world reaction is what ranks her, despite the fact that her east coast damage wasn't too bad. Jeanne's 3,000+ deaths in Haiti put her pretty high on the list too...despite moderate east coast damage.

For actual impact on the U.S. east coast, I'd probably rank:

1. Wilma
2. Frances
3. Charley
4. Jeanne
5. Isabel
6. Dennis
7. Floyd

Wilma would get 1st in my estimation for her very heavy impact on a major metropolitan coast from Key West through St Lucie county, affecting millions of people, businesses, houses, tourism, transportation, and wildlife for weeks. Frances for her incredibly wide swath of minor damage and drenching rains up north. Charley for a nasty streak of damage right across Florida. Jeanne for massive flooding and moderate treasure coast damage. Isabel for flooding and moderate to strong damage along the coast. Dennis for moderate damage which might have been worse had Ivan not already cleared a path last year. And Floyd for coastal impact, though staying farther off the coast kept it from getting worse.
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#30 Postby Terrell » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:40 pm

I voted Wilma, though it was a tossup between her and Charley. (I have relatives that live in South Florida)

I do wonder why Hurricanes that hit the west coast of the Florida Peninsula aren't considered GOM hurricanes since that part of Florida touches the Gulf of Mexico, and not the Atlantic Ocean
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#31 Postby Derek Ortt » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:05 pm

the WC of Florida counts as the East Coast + Florida Peninsula because the landfalling trends along the WC of Florida tend to run in the same concurrent cycles as do East Coast lanfalling major hurricanes, while the rest of the GOM follows a different pattern (which is really no pattern)

Also, those canes thatdo make landfall on the WC of Florida, have a severe impact on the EC as well (Like Wilma causing the vast majority of its damage on the EC metro areas, and Charley hitting Orlando very hard)
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#32 Postby EDR1222 » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:53 am

SoFla Dave wrote:Here's the first and probably only vote for Francis...

On a purely emotional and personal level, this storm killed the innocence we had. That no matter how many hurricanes hit, they would always be way down south, or up in the Carolinas, or over in the gulf. After decades of missing the Treasure Coast (or at least PSL), we found out that we were as vulnerable as anyone else. Sure, Jeanne might've been stronger, or Wilma scarier, but before Francis, I was starting to think we would never be hit (again). :(


I agree with you. Although there have been a couple events such as Erin in 95 and David way back in 79, they never really had the same kind of impact in south central Florida as Frances did.As you mentioned, Frances showed our vulnerability. So on a personal level she also gets my vote.

However, I remember the pictures of the flooding that Floyd brought to North Carolina. Absolutely unbelievable. So Floyd was probably the worst for the east coast, IMO.
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#33 Postby angelwing » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:40 am

Floyd for me, hands down. Drove thru it to get home from work, watched the creek behind the apartment complex flood out the first floor of the buildings that were there and watched the water creep towards us. Nasty, nasty storm :eek:
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#34 Postby NC George » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:16 pm

angelwing wrote:Floyd for me, hands down. Drove thru it to get home from work, watched the creek behind the apartment complex flood out the first floor of the buildings that were there and watched the water creep towards us. Nasty, nasty storm :eek:


I had to drive through a flood to get home from work during the first band of Floyd. Passed through my downtown and water was a foot deep, was stopped by local cops who told me there was a curfew. I was thinking the whole time I was stopped - like you could catch me! (I have a F-150 with 35" tires, the PO was driving a stock Jeep Cherokee.) I then had to drive over a bridge where the water came over my tires! Won't do that again.
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