Yeah, even the local media idiots get all bent out of shape if even a lousy tropical storm gets within 300 miles of us.

 

Pure hype.

 

Sometimes it's pretty funny stuff. A few years ago one of our local stations was doing an on the scene report for a tropical storm coming this way and the reporter said, "Look!! A palm frond on the ground!!"

After experiencing Hurricane Andrew in 1992, while living in what was then Cutler Ridge (now known as Cutler Bay), and experiencing my house tear apart with me in it (165 mph sustained winds and gusts over 200), I NEVER EVER take these storms lightly.

 

Just think of what might of happened if your home was built appropriately.

It was, but no home is built to withstand a catagory 5 hurricane I guess. Miami-Dade building code only says to 125 mph I think, this was way stronger than that.

Yeah, even the local media idiots get all bent out of shape if even a lousy tropical storm gets within 300 miles of us.

 

Pure hype.

 

Sometimes it's pretty funny stuff. A few years ago one of our local stations was doing an on the scene report for a tropical storm coming this way and the reporter said, "Look!! A palm frond on the ground!!"

After experiencing Hurricane Andrew in 1992, while living in what was then Cutler Ridge (now known as Cutler Bay), and experiencing my house tear apart with me in it (165 mph sustained winds and gusts over 200), I NEVER EVER take these storms lightly.

Are you sure about that 200MPH wind gust? Looking at the Wikipedia page, it says maximum winds recorded were 177MPH.

 

Speaking of Cutler Ridge:

In 2002, The Atlantic Basin Hurricane Database Reanalysis Project examined Hurricane Andrew and this corridor of extreme winds embedded within Andrew's northern eyewall. The project concluded that Category 5 conditions on land occurred only in a small region of southern Dade (now Miami-Dade) County, specifically close to the coast in Cutler Ridge.

:o

 

I was here for Andrew too, but in Margate(evacuated to my aunt's house from Pompano), so I missed the worst of it. Wilma was more traumatic for me. as the center of circulation(It wasn't quite strong enough to have a proper eye) came right over my house here in Tamarac We would've been better off staying in Pompano for Andrew. My aunts house lost power. The power at my house didn't even flicker apparently. When we got home the clocks weren't blinking. We were without power for almost 2 weeks after Wilma.

Well I guess I am going by what I had heard on the TV, and they said it was 165 mph sustained.......I do know this, it was DAMN SCARY ! And my neighborhood didn't get power back for 5 months. Yes 5 months. The entire power grid had to be rebuilt. The substation was destroyed and every pole had to be replaced. Meanwhile my wife, daughter & I moved in with my brother and his family in Coral Gables for a month, and then rented an apartment for the next 6 months while I had the house rebuilt. We moved back in, in February 1993 and sold it that summer and moved to Coral Gables where we are now.