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29 Years Ago Today
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:55 am
by P5 Guy
https://www.850wftl.com/29th-anniversar ... er-nature/
~ Saffir-Simpson Rating: Category 5 Hurricane.
~ Highest 1-Minute Sustained Winds: 175 mph (280 km/h)
~ Damage: $27.3 Billion (1994 USD)
~ Death Toll: 62
Re: 29 Years Ago Today
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:17 pm
by S&W collector
Wow I can't believe it's been almost 30 years!!!
Re: 29 Years Ago Today
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:38 pm
by TonyR
My first hurricane
Re: 29 Years Ago Today
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 1:32 pm
by S&W collector
TonyR wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:38 pmMy first hurricane
First one I can remember as well
Re: 29 Years Ago Today
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:12 pm
by SteyrAUG
TonyR wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:38 pmMy first hurricane
Mine too. Did a couple "almost" ones growing up that hit way north or way south. Andrew was a MF'er. Kicked our butts all the way in Broward and my friends and family that lived in Homestead got bombed hard.
Re: 29 Years Ago Today
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:38 pm
by Iosef
No doubt about it, Andrew was nasty. I was really glad to be living in Orlando at the time. I heard locals talking about a storm that carried it's storm surge all the way across the Florida peninsula, at Orlando, long before my time.
The earliest storm I remember was Donna, in 1960. We were living in OpaLocka then.
Re: 29 Years Ago Today
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:56 am
by SteyrAUG
Iosef wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:38 pm
No doubt about it, Andrew was nasty. I was really glad to be living in Orlando at the time. I heard locals talking about a storm that carried it's storm surge all the way across the Florida peninsula, at Orlando, long before my time.
The earliest storm I remember was Donna, in 1960. We were living in OpaLocka then.
Thing about Andrew was it was one of the driest hurricanes I ever heard off. Hardly any flooding really, but that meant it had lots and lots of wind, that was a fast mover.