I lived in Panama City in the early 70's, and went through Eloise. That was my first (of many) hurricanes and typhoons. The folks in the Tyndall/Pt St Joe area really took a hard hit.
WHEW! All it seem that I got was more (you guessed it) RAIN. Not much more than typical summer thunderstorm with regards to wind (as far as I know)...but the RAIN!!! Now I drive up and across the road diagonally, and see my uncle's pasture is once again a shallow pond. The road that wasn't under water for Matthew in '16 (but was for Florence '18) is once again with water on it. Not as deep YET, but it is still raining... UH-OH... a closer look at Jim's last map makes me wonder again. It seems as though I am in the eye right as I am dead in the 'point' where the SC/NC line runs at 45* before going horizontal.
The center of Michael just came over and a big wind gust took us off the power grid. Our standby generator automatically kicked in and we are operating again.
N.C. has 200K-300K households out of power. I saw that Fla. has over 300K. The surprising statistic is the numbers are as close as they are.
The Hurricane was much stronger when it came on shore and it traversed a densely populated part of Florida.
Still land wise a very narrow section of Florida in comparison to traveling through much larger sections of states, plus alot of it went through areas of the National forests in Florida. Much of the power grid is underground in coastal areas of Florida so I imagine that helped to a degree. I would not be surprised if most of the section of Florida except for the leveled areas have power restored before some of the other states due much to the infrastructure being underground. Tallahasse will be the most work in Florida for the power grid but luckily the eye traveled a bit west of the area
It is also a testament to the staying power and strength of this system. There are a lot of trees down here in N.C. But, we have no problems here relative to parts of Fla.
..and France. In N.C. we have a lot of households without power, trees on houses, etc. Michael interacted with a strong jet stream. Strong winds aloft were directed to the surface with some damaging consequences. Now 1.6 million out of power in all the affected states.
I noticed from the videos on CBS this morning that in Mexico beach that the small ranch-style houses along the shore were devastated; the larger houses on stilts were pretty much undamaged. I hope that the powers-that-be in Mexico beach have the sense to require that if these destroyed houses are rebuilt, that they must be on stilts. Perhaps they have already done so.
Michael caused a 5.5 foot sound side storm surge in the northeastern N.C. counties of Currituck and Dare.
wow i just saw this on tv. i'm nowhere near this but i'm there with you guys. i hope all will be safe and may the BUICK GODS be looking down on you. holly crap good luck. johnny
The ones on stilts are left standing, but if you look close you can see most of them have the front windows blown out and the insides are totally gutted, certainly less damage, but I wonder if structurally they are still viable. Many of the condo building that are still standing would have had the first floors taken out by the storm surge, so one wonders if the are structurally sound now. This footage was the most eye opening I have seen yet, it makes those of us that live along the coast take note for sure.
