I saw a video clip of that Tampa General Hospital water fence holding off the surge , it looked like a scene from an apocalypse movie.Do not move there.
The ONLY thing that came out of this that was good is that the water fence invented to go around the ENTIRE Tampa General hospital worked like a charm. Kept out the storm surge. It can handle 15 feet and 130 mph winds.
Derek Jeter has or had a mansion on Davis islandI saw a video clip of that Tampa General Hospital water fence holding off the surge , it looked like a scene from an apocalypse movie.
I know someone that lives by there on Tampa’s Davis Island. His entire first floor of his apartment got wiped out , girl that lived next door was watching tv when it got out of hand and couldn’t open her door bc the water was so high and crawled out of her room window to get to the second floor. It happened so fast and blindsided people there that didn’t think it would get this bad without a direct hit.
The Gulf Coast of Florida has developed so much the last 10 years from Naples to Tampa Bay. But these run of storms has to have people question long term viability of living or buying there.
I Was going there later this week, but obviously not now. Those pictures and videos were crazy.It’s really sad. I saw a LOT of videos of Clearwater Beach and St. Petersburg. Spent nearly an hour watching them last night
One beachfront condo that I used to own, 3-4 stores, and restaurants that I used to frequent, and 4-5 hotels that I’ve stayed at.
Not sure how high the water got, but some of those places are hosed. It’s like a river flowed through Clearwater Beach. Mandalay Ave. must be 3-4 inches deep in sand and Frenchy’s (both) may NEVER recover. Frenchy’s deck is basically on the beach. Maybe 100 yards max from the ocean.
People can’t go to work as waitresses and bartenders. The marina is wrecked. The marina parking lot is a few inches under sand. My old condo’s first floor parking garage is a mess. Coronado Avenue (behind the Wyndham and Hyatt) probably had a river of at LEAST a few feet (saw the video) and is now all deep sand. The little outdoor bar there is destroyed. I’m sure eveything on that road is. A couple of hotels have a lot on ground level. Some are only one story.
It’s really sad. I go there several times a year, so I was able to pick up on the locations quite easily.
I can’t imagine how long this is going to take to get back to anything near what it was. Cross it off the list right now on places to visit.
This WASN’T EVEN the direct hit that they were dreading. It was 100 miles + offshore. I truly believe that a full on hit with a category-3 to 5 will put nearly the entire island of Clearwater Beach, Tampa and St. Petersburg under water. The insurance rates are going to skyrocket if you can even get insurance.
Do not move there.
The ONLY thing that came out of this that was good is that the water fence invented to go around the ENTIRE Tampa General hospital worked like a charm. Kept out the storm surge. It can handle 15 feet and 130 mph winds.
Yall would know more about this than me, but it seems like the development of that area has been irresponsible. Just throwing up homes and condos without properly addressing the infrastructure is not going to end well for a lot of people.I saw a video clip of that Tampa General Hospital water fence holding off the surge , it looked like a scene from an apocalypse movie.
I know someone that lives by there on Tampa’s Davis Island. His entire first floor of his apartment got wiped out , girl that lived next door was watching tv when it got out of hand and couldn’t open her door bc the water was so high and crawled out of her room window to get to the second floor. It happened so fast and blindsided people there that didn’t think it would get this bad without a direct hit.
The Gulf Coast of Florida has developed so much the last 10 years from Naples to Tampa Bay. But these run of storms has to have people question long term viability of living or buying there.
Yall would know more about this than me, but it seems like the development of that area has been irresponsible. Just throwing up homes and condos without properly addressing the infrastructure is not going to end well for a lot of people.
you were also told by a retard that "muh weather change makes hurricane" seeing as there were 30% more hurricanes from 1870-1920 than there were from 1970-2020.I was told by renowned climatologist @goodknightfl that climate change isn't real. The fact that Helene fed off the record breaking superheated Gulf waters and surged from a cat 1 to a cat 4 in under 24 hours is completely normal.
It’s depressing honestly. Some of the hotels are closed and the streets are a few inches deep in sand. One couple’s condo was at least 2-3 feet in sand that was in a video. It’s all wet and packed down. It’s going to take forever to remove all that sand down to bare floors and street. It’s like the beach relocated. It’s just unbelievable.I Was going there later this week, but obviously not now. Those pictures and videos were crazy.
Ucfmikes mentioned Derek Jeter’s mansion(he sold it and moved to Miami). He had it built where the first floor of the house is actually the 2nd floor, the ground level first floor is an open air garage. I believe Tiger Woods house in Jupiter was built the same way. obviously 99% of everyone else’s houses or condos aren’t built that way but that is the model to be mostly storm surge proof in those areas. But how that is realistically achieved in already developed areas…Yall would know more about this than me, but it seems like the development of that area has been irresponsible. Just throwing up homes and condos without properly addressing the infrastructure is not going to end well for a lot of people.
A powerful and large hurricane that took an inland path at an amazing forward speed to get to an area that gets devastated with that amount of rain all at once.This storm was unfortunately unique, with the strength upon landfall, the path that it took, and the combination with a cold front to the north. This resulted in catastrophic flooding all the way up to the mountains of North Carolina. Amazing places and mountain towns such as Asheville, Boone, and Blowing Rock have been put underwater and cut off from the rest of the area.
Weird how we're getting all these unique storms and floods nowadays.This storm was unfortunately unique
Very few states are free of natural disasters and most aren’t states that anyone wants to live in.Western NC roughly 500 miles inland from where Helene made landfall, got a lot of people that moved to that area to escape Florida Hurricanes(and heat) and this happens
Why are you so dumb?3 more named hurricanes in Atlantic and we will have a normal year. That said the flood damage from this one is horrid.
interesting by decade chart on hurricanes
mostly shows the more you look the more you see the same ol same ol.
1931-1950 seem to be the worse 20 years.
The 2 charts together are kind of interesting. Land falling hurricanes don't seem to follow quantity very closely. There are 2 really big spike years for named storms one storm in each of those years was subtropical storm which was not added to the records until 1968. There seems to have been somewhere between 25 and 45 during that period. there were 10 from 2003 to 2018. That will skew the $s down a bit over those years to make an apples to apples comparison. That said there still would be more storms.Why are you so dumb?
The issue is how rising heat impacts the intensity of hurricanes, not their number.The 2 charts together are kind of interesting. Land falling hurricanes don't seem to follow quantity very closely.
Totally normal meteorological events, lucky for us we have resident high school drop out/Nobel prize winning meteorologist @goodknightfl to tell us global warming isn't real.
Stupid enough to clean pools, make specialty chocolate desserts and arrangements, not believing in science, and convinced that the government is up to something that’s causing hurricanes to be stronger.How goddamn stupid do you have to be to deny global warming?
You can tell someone is a moron and ashamed of it when they use the "just asking questions' logical fallacy.
You missed the mid 1930s. So did the US Media. But they don't know their history.I was told by renowned climatologist @goodknightfl that climate change isn't real. The fact that Helene fed off the record breaking superheated Gulf waters and surged from a cat 1 to a cat 4 in under 24 hours is completely normal.
The fact that Helene fed off the record breaking superheated Gulf waters and surged from a cat 1 to a cat 4 in under 24 hours is completely normal.
"Daddy, why are hurricanes getting stronger?"Sure glad Florida banned any discussion of climate change in their school books, that really fixed the problem.
Most of them don't have flood insurance, Regular insurance doesn't cover flood damage. If you don't have it, they were in a 1000 year flood zone which made them feel pretty safe. You are not being screwed by ins companies. Only if those who have coverage (FED PROGRAM) dont get paid are ins companies screwing them.After watching 60 Minutes last night, I learned the double-tragedy of this devastation is that these home owners are likely to be screwed over by their insurance companies in their efforts to recover their damages.