I think Idalia is the first hurricane to hit the US this 2023 hurricane season, and one of the latest "first hurricane" to hit the US.
Prayers for those in path of the storm
Ping for historical accuracy.
Just for the record, the earliest to make landfall was Alma and it happened on June 8, 1966.
So I dreamed Hurricane Carla in 1961, that unfortunately gave Dan Rather his first national exposure and led to his career
My daughter and cousin both live in Tampa more or less at sea level. My daughter says her area flooded. Her apartment is on the 3rd floor, so no problem there, but the parking lot flooded. She and her husband stayed last night at a hotel in the casino area, so they’re OK. Don’t know when they can go back though.
And ever since the media has declared, “the next hurricane is the worst in our nation’s history”! Just like trained seals they clap and squeal as one.
Alma went over the Dry Tortuga Islands with winds of 215mph, but moderated to 125 by the time it got to the Keys. It was supposed to hit at high water, but had slowed and came in at near low water.
Had it come in at high water, then the storm surge would have covered the Keys to 10’ - the highest spot in the keys in Big Pine at 1.5’ above sea level.
Was a real blast partying on the roof of the Casa, recently redone from the Capone days. Hanging on to plam trees was fun also because if you let go... well
When the Eye of the storm began to approach, the winds died down and everyone ran to their vehicles, tying on Sunfish. So sailing in the water aboard Sunfish and a beer was great fun foe an hour or so. Then hurrying back, as the Eye receded, to the shelter of the Casa (now called Casa Marina Key West).
Just a little misleading.
And probably a few million years before this but we weren’t around all that much. Note the word recorded. They may not have recorded the birth of Obama in Hawaii until number of years after his British certificate was locked up from Kenya.
wy69
Lame ‘record’
earliest hurricane in ... 140 years. So there was one in 1825.