Hello Everyone,
We are home and getting caught up on some sleep after 4 days of chasing first tropical storm Bonnie and then monster Hurricane Charley. Here is a short update and more will follow soon.
We intercepted Charley in downtown Punta Gorda, FL at the county court house just off of SR41. Our lowest pressure reading was 143MB during the eyewall passaged that lasted all of 3 minutes due to the very small eye.
Once we moved into Punta Gorda we all kinda split up and spread out around the town a few blocks from each other. Jim Edds and Mark went on foot about a block over from our location. Chris Collura, Jason Foster, Doug Kiesling, and myself were around the county court house area during much of the peak.
The winds are the strongest I have ever seen and its really hard to explain what we witnessed for over 2 1/2 hours at ground zero. Starting tomorrow I will be uploading some intense video from the chase during the eye.
Here is a little sample of Charley in the Northeast eyewall in Punta Gorda, FL taken by Jim Edds one block over from us.
Windows Media Player:
http://www.extremestorms.com/Charlie%20 ... 0Gorda.wmv
More to come shortly.
Jeff Gammons
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Steve Cosby
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Excellent video!! Talk about intense. I hope you share more the incredible footage
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Looks like you were seeing 120 mph gusts out there. Extreme video and very dangerous. Great job!
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Here is another video clip in Windows format. This is the view during the worst of the backside of the eye. Doug Kiesling left his dash cam running as our winds came around once on the western side.
Very impressive sustained winds in this video and note how the hood of the SUV is ready to come off. Doug was in front of us facing west-southwest at the time of this video.
Video: http://www.lightningboy.net/2004_Hurric ... e_Wall.wmv
Still rendering video and more to come.
Jeff Gammons
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Very impressive sustained winds in this video and note how the hood of the SUV is ready to come off. Doug was in front of us facing west-southwest at the time of this video.
Video: http://www.lightningboy.net/2004_Hurric ... e_Wall.wmv
Still rendering video and more to come.
Jeff Gammons
http://www.weathervine.com
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Holy crap Jeff!!!! Where were you guys located to shoot these videos?? (I am talking about location...between 2 buildings, etc.)
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