How many hurricanes TOTAL have you experienced..

[cyclonaut]

In order..

1.David 79 - I was only 9 but I remember we got some gusty winds & strong squalls.Also the hurricane that got me into hurricanes.

2.Kate 85 - Passed well to my south but I recall some gusty winds.

3.Floyd 87 - He fell apart as he went right up US-1 though the Keys.Windy & squally but not much to write home about.

4.Andrew 92 - Andrew passed 25 miles to my south but I still felt 100+ gusts,saw transformers exploding all around...heard the thunderous sound of a giant tree fall...It was something else.

5.Georges 98 - He passed to my south affecting the Keys mostly but I got some pretty strong squalls & then very strong winds as he passed through.Took a drive to see Biscayne Bay & the waters were extremely rough.

6.Irene 99 - This one made quite an impression on me.A big rainmaker with some good gusts from time to time.

7.Michelle 01 - Yep that Michelle.Though she passed well offshore of here after Cuba I took a drive with my father to the beach & were greeted with very strong winds & the angriest ocean I've seen since Georges

8.Charley 04 - Got some descent squalls on his approach but then just windy & overcast.

9.Frances 04 - 72 hours of very windy & rainy weather.Felt some strong winds @ time maybe near hurricane force..It was memorable.

10.Jeanne 04 - Not as windy or as rainy as Frances.Not as impressive as Frances.

[Ixolib]

All in Biloxi. Stayed right here for each of them in the same house I'm in now.

Betsy - 1965
Camille - 1969
Fredrick - 1979
Elena - 1985
Georges - 1998
And too many tropical storms to remember...

[CentralFlGal]

It took 9 years of living in Florida to finally experience my first 'cane... then 2004 came around:

Charley (glad he was fast)
Frances (thought she'd never leave)
Jeanne (too worn out thinking about the impending cleanup)

Before that, the only other memorable storm was the "Storm of the Century" which trapped me at work for 3 days in 1993.

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/arch/cases/930312/sat/vis.rxml

[baygirl_1]

Let's see....
Camille: I was so little then, but I do recall one of my earliest memories-- we had no power so I had no nightlight!
Frederic: I remember that this one scared my father, who was afraid of nothing. Frederic has been my hurricane benchmark for over 25 years.
Elena: My sister's in-laws lost their house to a tornado Elena spun toward Alabama as she went in to Mississippi. That was a very messy and sad clean-up.
Erin: She chased us home from our Florida vacation.
Opal: After experiencing her outer fringes here in Mobile, I went over to help family in the Fort Walton area clean-up after-wards. What a mess! They'd already gotten some water damage from Erin that same year.
Danny: We were very much wishing we had an ark!
Georges: Again... where's the ark?!
Tropical Storm ??? (2-3 years ago): We went canoeing in Mississippi as a tropical storm hit the Upper Texas coast. Why? Well, it's a long story involving a very stubborn man! Suffice to say that though he'll never live this down though the story about it has become a legend among our friends. (For some reason--- I think I'm repressing it all--I cannot remember the name of the storm.)
Ivan: This was the first evacuation we experienced. The traffic jam was both amazing and horrific. Thankfully, we escaped any real damage, unlike folks in South Baldwin and Pensacola. I know those folks must be dreading this hurricane season!
So, I guess that's 9. I can handle the odd number... no need to make it an even 10!

[Brent]

Tropical Storm ??? (2-3 years ago): We went canoeing in Mississippi as a tropical storm hit the Upper Texas coast. Why? Well, it's a long story involving a very stubborn man! Suffice to say that though he'll never live this down though the story about it has become a legend among our friends. (For some reason--- I think I'm repressing it all--I cannot remember the name of the storm.)

Allison???

Claudette was a Hurricane that hit the Upper-Middle Texas coast(not sure what they call it exactly in 2003). Allison is the only tropical storm I can think of.

[LarryWx]

Hurricane David 9/4/1979 Savannah, GA

I had been vacationing at Disneyworld with my aunt through the day before it hit Savannah, 9/3/79. A that time, huricane David had been projected to get to central FL and go inland to some extent. At that time, it was centered near the SE FL coast. We decided to go back home to Savannah before it reached central FL. However, about when we got home and much to our surprise, we heard that a hurricane watch had just been issued for the Savannah area as a precaution.
The next morning (9/4/79), as it was exiting FL near Cape Canaveral and heading closer and closer to a true north direction off Jacksonvile, our watch was upgraded to a warning but the expectation was that the eye would stay a little offshore or hug the coast at worst and just give Savannah a glancing blow with the weak side.
However, by late morning and early afternoon while east of St. Brunswick, it had suddenly and unexpectedly taken a slight wobble to the left of its prior heading (NNW instead of N). With this wobble and with winds and rains steadily increasing (already causing a neighbor's small tree to fall), it had then become apparent that Savannah was about to get a lot more than a glancing blow. Sure enough, by ~4:30 PM, Savannah was receiving the worst of the storm and almost everyone was losing power, with winds at times reaching to near minimal hurricane force for ~2 hours. Several more of our neighbor's trees fell during this time. Some reported much lighter winds and brighter skies for a time while the eye came overhead.
Then starting near ~6:30 PM, the winds gradually subsided throughout the night. We ended up with no power for four days during a very muggy period making it very uncomfortable. Bagged ice suddenly became a valuable commodity. Some were without power for as long as two weeks!

Link to track (notice the subtle wobble to the left just south of SAV):

ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/storm_archiv ... elim10.gif

[hurricanefreak1988]

About 43637962369236 remnant TDs have passed through here, but as far as the real deal, let's see...

Fran (1996)
Bonnie (1998)
Floyd (1999)
Isabel (2003)

I'll count Isabel even though we didn't get the worst of her. She still made some noise here.

[weatherwindow]

kate, floyd(87), andrew(fringe), georges, irene.........i'll throw in the ts: marco, gordon, mitch, henri, charley.....welcome to the keys:)

[HURAKAN]

Still waiting for my first real encounter, fortunately, I still have a lot of time, I'm just 18 years old!

[mobilebay]

Hurricanes.

1. 1979 Hurricane Frederic (the worst so far)
2. 1985 Hurricane Elena
3. 1995 Hurricane Erin
4. 1995 Hurricane Opal (Fringes)
5 1998 Hurricane Georges
6. 2004 Hurricane Ivan
Now thats pretty good to only be 31 years old.


Tropical Storms.

Way too many to mention.

[MSRobi911]

Camille 1969 In Pascagoula
Frederick 1979 In Pascagoula
Elena Dont remember the year In Pascagoula
Andrew 1992 in Baton Rouge
TS. Lili, Isidore, in Baton Rouge
TS Matthew Just north of Morgan City La. Believe it or not I was fishing during the whole storm.
Tim

Elena was September 2, 1985...my 30th birtday...never forget that one

Mary

[MSRobi911]

My first memory of a Hurricane was

Camille

Frederic

Elena

Juan....really just a Tropical Storm

Georges ... 1 1/2 feet water in my house ...ugh

Ivan.....on the left part, thank goodness

I there are a few minor ones I have forgotten that were close, but no cigar

Mary

[iceangel]

Ivan
Erin
Opal
Frederick
Georges
Juan

That's all I remember

[RevDodd]

Been a few, but since my weather memories begin in Oklahoma, There aren't too many childhood memories...but I can tell you about a tornado that blew through one night.

First clear memories of a hurricane come from Charleston, when I rode in a U-Haul moving van over the Cooper River bridge in a tropical storm. don't even remember the name, but the combination of wind and rain and the looming gray structure swaying as we crept over it was both frightening and fascinating.

Next came David, which I foolish tried to drive home from Clemson to catch on the coast. Naturally, it cut inland and met me on I-26 up around Orangeburg.

Moved to California, where hurricanes beyond the Hollywood movie lots are pretty rare, so I missed Hugo. Did get Loma Prieta and White Wolf quakes if we get credit for that though.


Moved to faynam just in time for Bertha, then Fran. Winds here gusted to 85 and took down every tree that had thrived since Hazel. No power for 6 days and my little one gained a healthy respect for the term "be prepared."

Since then, Floyd is the only one to stand out in memory, back in 99. We've gotten the boot or butt of a bunch of tropical storms.

[drudd1]

Even though I was young, I still have some vivid memories of Donna, 1960
.
Next was Frederic, 1979.

Had a long dry spell and along came Charley, Frances, and Jeanne, 2004.

Oh yeah, and last but not least two typhoons while stationed in the Far East, 1980 to 1984, whose names I don't remember.

[Blown Away]

1. David (1979) Direct hit, in the eye for a few hours.
2. Erin (1995) S side of storm, no eyewall!
3. Irene (1999) Center went over our area, what was left of it!
4. Frances (2004) Direct hit, in the eye for a few hours.
5. Jeanne (2004) Direct hit, in the eye for an hour.

T.S. & Brushes: Mitch, Floyd, Andrew, Jerry, Georges, and others I'm forgetting.

David was neat because it was a daytime eye, blue skies and birds. Frances was the storm that would not end. Jeanne made me the most nervous, listening to the shingles peel off the roof is a weird sound. Next to the wind experience, watching the clouds in the sky circulate >100mph around the eyewall is amazing.

[Skywatch_NC]

Fran
Floyd
Isabel

TS Dennis...and there's probably a few other TS's that don't come to mind right now...


Eric

[baygirl_1]

Allison???
Claudette was a Hurricane that hit the Upper-Middle Texas coast(not sure what they call it exactly in 2003). Allison is the only tropical storm I can think of.

Brent, it wasn't Allison. I remember Allison because we were in Europe when it hit Texas and Sky News had a story about the American South being flooded by a "hurricane." We all freaked and called home only to find it was poor Texas, not Alabama, that was under water.

[x-y-no]

Actually, I forgot one ... in addition to Andrew, I was in Massachusetts for Hurricane Donna. Of course I was two months old at the time ...

Jan

[Trader Ron]

Carol 1953.
Connie 1954
Diane 1954 One week after Connie
Donna 1960 Had Long Island Sound in my house. Last bad Hurricane to hit Naples , where i now live.
Esther 1961
Belle 1976 Belle weakened just before coming ashore.
Gloria 1985 Gloria hit at Dead Low tide. Had Gloria hit at high tide, Fire Island would have been in deep do-do.
Bob 1991
Charley 2004

Too many tropical storms and Nor'easters to remember.
* I lived on Long Island Sound from 1946-1962. Yes, i remember the Great Blizzard of 1947. the forecast was for Snow Flurries.