SciFly

and another one bites the dust..

SciFly

our street, two blocks up from my house

SciFly

and around the corner from the above, on Maynada street...



not all live to become giants

SciFly

Scion yellow / Beetle yellow. There's some white in that VW tint, I think

On the left in the distance is a very large Poinciana -down-, split asunder by whipping winds.

SciFly

These pictures all were taken at about 11AM.
Rain came and went.

Through the windshield...

Many cars had detoured around these trees,where possible, doing a snakelike
detour across homeowners' swales and driveways.

A few got stuck in the mud. I I stopped to give possible aid to a TCM.
(I carry the tow hook and a rope)

"I'm OK" she said. It was my boyfriend's car that just got pulled out.
a towtruck and a rice car were parked adjacently

SciFly

SciFly

If this is all getting repetitious.. you're right.
But almost all the downed trees you've seen are separate trees and all are within a two square block area.
Now, muliply these by a thousand or five thousand and you get an idea what Miami Dade County looked like today.
Let's not forget all those in low areas that are flooded.
Reminder of respect all who may at some time find themselves in a storm's path.

This was a mild hurricane



still, i prefer these to earthquakes or tornados or wildfires

SciFly

like bugs we are.... very small

wizzlexB

I am sOOOooOOOOOOooooOOoooOOoOo glad you guys are ok down there. This isn't very encouraging for me, as this was a Cat. 1 and I'm new here!! Even though we didn't get hit, that's too close to home for me. I'm sorry you guys weren't more prepared, but the Weather Channel was no help. According to them, it was basically a Tropical Storm until it hit land....LOTS of warning..... Glad you guys are ok.

SciFly

2k$ wall repair only two months old...
it was hand poured and full of rebar teel.
I told handyman, A.M Jr, , whose obsessive idea it was to make a "lasting" repair:

"When we get another storm, whether twenty years from now or two weeks,
your repair is going to go to hell. It does not matter how strong you build the wall back.
When this tree falls so will the wall."

That's why I wisely opened the cross-wise iron gate before the winds kicked up.
If I had not, then the gate would've caved in the wall of the block wall of the garage.


something's gonna give

matt_a

Wow! I'm glad you're okay and nobody was hurt. Now fix those wheels
and wipers before Scion comes and takes your car back.

SciFly

It's precisely for the reason I don't want anyone to take it back
that I put it into such singular style

----
Thanks to all you guys who responded with offers of aid and empathy but you see,
I'm OK! And so, keep your hearts open for the next round of Katrina sufferers who
really will need helps.

take care, and never lean into high winds: flying objects really are a hazard. The
deaths here in the two county area came by crushings. In Andrew, it was both
crushes and flying objects.

One home I visited after Andrew (1992) displayed a concrete roofing tile embedded
in the solid pine wood front door paneling. Exactly like a tomahawk. That is the power of wind.

Raymond recalls reports of dry straws embedded in telephone poles after North Dakota cyclones.
Hurricanes generate small cyclones, too.

The sliding door pictured on page one blew out when its tempered glass exploded.

I spent a half hour last night leaning against the mahogany front door here until my mate
could find a set of two inch number ten wood screws. By turning these six screws
into the gap of the in-swinging door, between the swinging edge and the casement,
the door was made safe.
Otherwise the door would have blown open if the striker tongue tore out the wood of the door.

My late uncle Paul told me of his earliest memory:
at age 2 and a half, watching the entire roof of the neighbor's garage loft off and roll
lazily down the street, bump, bump and fall apart in the 120mph winds of the fateful
Miami hurricane of September, 1926.

HOLEY MOLEY... Hurricane season has not even peaked yet! This is only August.

Chaos_Being

Wow, those are some insane pictures. I've encountered a few tropical storms and two category 1 hurricanes, and I have to say that your pics show an incredible amount of damage for the strength of the storm you went through.

And its going to be worse when it hits again...seriously, this is the reason why I'll probably never live on the gulf coast or the carolina coast

Solarxb20

The reason that 80 - 90 mph winds did that much damage is because it sat over you. One of the hurricanes we had last year sat over us for almost 12 hours as a CAT 2.. trust me there were trees down everywhere up here.

Good luck to those that are still in its path. And I see something else forming on the Atlantic.

Please pay attention to www.nhc.noaa.com and weather.com's tropical atlantic satallite. If you watch patterns you can tell which ones will get bad or which ones you should be concerned about. Don't let the weather man wait until last minute to give you info

Da_Mac

Wow its good to hear you and your family are ok... I feel bad for the families who are now homeless and those families of the 7 people who have died in that storm.. G/L on the clean up and rebuild..

bahamut_zero

Wow, looks like a mess down there for something I didn't think was that bad.

I love your box.

I shouldn't get it too bad here in the panhandle.

TJandBOXCARWILLIE

They said a HURRICANE was coming. Does not matter if it's a cat one, or a cat five, a Hurricane is a Hurricane.

I watched the news like a hawk. And not one station said we had nothing to worry about. In fact, they went out of their way to point out, how we all need to take any hurricane serious.

If there is one thing that I hope we all learn, from this, is when they say a Hurricane is coming, believe them.

BangorXB

i am glad u r ok.....BUT



i dont want to see whats goin to happen again tomorrow when the hurricane hits land again

JDZNate

Holy crap! I'm glad you're alright.

tC_kevin

WOW...at least the car is ok!