What excites you about hurricanes?

[Jim Cantore]

The power, the unpredicitblity, the havoc these storms can cause. they're just amazing. And sometimes they just seem to be living creatures of destruction.

[cajungal]

To look at something so beautiful that is yet so deadly. The feeling at Wal-mart when people are fighting over the last cans Spam and Tuna. You are worried about losing everything you worked so hard for your whole life. Yet, it is still exciting seeing the power of nature.

[bevgo]

It used to be the preparation that everyone goes thru before it arrives if you're in the warning zone .... and then the few days after when you get to camp out ..... NOW.....POST KATRINA .... not a damn thing excites me about them ... in fact just thinking about another storm makes me want to throw up.

Katrina survivor ..... I am

Could not have said it better myself. It is no longer excitment----just dread.

[f5]

the beauty espicaaly the buzzsaw types like Katrina was

[boca]

Watching from the formative stages to a Katrina type system and the adrenaline of the path it will go and having butterflies in your stomach if you happen to be in the cone.

[windnrain]

The wind rushing around your face, the rain beating down on your skin, the ocean waves breaking 5...10...15 feet before they're just so huge you can't possibly stay and watch. The yellow sky as the hurricane approaches, the steadily increasing wind after a completely clear sky, the speed at which they come and which they go. The power that they seem to weild over our lives, the reminder that mother nature still hold's the best hand.

It is a bit macabre, I know, but sometimes... just once... I like to see nature with the upper hand.

And dont give me any bull. I am a Katrina survivor too.

[robbielyn]

My answer is very simple: The power of the wind.

[HurricaneGirl]

Watching them form from the beginning stages.

[mikey mike]

It used to be the preparation that everyone goes thru before it arrives if you're in the warning zone .... and then the few days after when you get to camp out .....

Used to feel the same way Bluefrog, until Katrina came along.Since that day hurricanes have become nothing but destructive monsters to me.

[JonathanBelles]

the extreme power, but the amazing beauty

[Josephine96]

Most exciting things to me about hurricanes.

The rush you get in tracking them as the progress across the ATL, the news coverage becoming nearly 24/7 when they get to within 200 miles.. the howl of the wind even though it's scary it also sounds very exciting to me..

that's just some of it..

[Jim Cantore]

The Beauty of storms like Katrina and Isabel, but when they reach land, the hell the unleash, it's like night and day.

[The_OD_42]

Watching them form and then become really powerful (atleast the fish spinners).

And of course, going out and being a kid again by playing in the wind and rain...but that's only for a trop. storm. anything above that, im inside.

[Jim Cantore]

anything above 100mph I stay home.

[The_OD_42]

anything above 100mph I stay home.

I actually wouldn't know how long I'd stay out...never had winds exceeding probably 50 mph. But it is fun to go out in when theyre not that strong

[Jim Cantore]

I say that because I live 60 miles inland, anything under 100mph, and I go east

[The_OD_42]

Haha! Nice! Whereabouts in NJ are you from?

[Jim Cantore]

Burlington, Originally from Philly

[The_OD_42]

Woo! A fellow Philly native! I'm from Norristown

[Jim Cantore]

Cool, When did you leave?