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Originally Posted by jyl
Not asking anyone to take risks, but some video would help those of us who don't live in hurricane country understand a little better what it is like.
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When Irma passed me 120 miles away we got our butts kicked here, no power for 6 days. It was freaking 120 miles away from us. Irma was a monster.
I also rode out Wilma on 05 where I had the eye over my house as a cat2 then it ramped up to a cat3 as the back eye wall passed me. (The eye if Frances and Jeanne also passed over my house, we had an infant in 04 so we evacuated)
Not a pleasant experience and the sound is haunting.
I shot some video like Byron but to be honest it does not capture the true felling of being in the storm. The sheer sound volume of the wind, the house creaking, the toilet water moving up and down from the atmospheric pressure. It is really hard to capture the power you are witnessing.
I honestly prefer to just leave and take a small vacation, there is really nothing you can do riding it out except sit and wait. Maybe I do it wrong, I cannot get drunk and party. I literally sit and wait for it to just be over.
My wife likes to hunker down this way you can immediately start cleaning up.
I have to quote Jimmy Buffett here, "Tryin to reason with Hurricane season". There is no reasoning. Yeah we live in Paradise, you have to decide if you can take the bad with the good.
https://youtu.be/E8GcT5PBIC4
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