with a 52 mile wide eye, max sustained winds of 120/Gusts-155 mph. Wilma begins to exit South Florida as a Category 2,
MSW 105/Gusts-140 mph, little change in eye width, but it had become quite irregular. However, as Wilma is moving off the
SFP east coast she rapidly increases in intensity, and eye wall shape/formation, with the back side of the hurricane (still on land) causing extensive damage with MSW 125/Gusts-160 mph as Wilma becomes a major Category 3 hurricane again.
FR Pre-Florida Wilma Live Threads: Part I - Part II - Part III
FR Florida Wilma Live Thread: Part IV
(10.26.05 - Combined Wilma Live Threads: over 185,000 views - 6,000 posts)
W-SFP: West End-Florida Keys & Naples - Significant Damage
Current Florida Losses Estimate: $18 Billion
E-SFP: Key Biscayne - 123 mph. (A record I could have done without)
W-SFP: NHC-Key West and Naples - 125 mph
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~ Approaching South Florida ~
~ On Land - East Coast, South Florida Peninsula ~
~ Moving Off Atlantic Shore - Offshore ~
This photo looks "a little different" than the first photo on the page of Downtown Miami, shot from the same area.
Hurricane Wilma: SFP On-Shore Reported Winds (MPH)### East SFP ### - Key Biscayne - 123; Hollywood - 116; South Miami - 115; Miramar - 105; Weston - 104; West Miami-Dade (NHC) - 104; Lake Okeechobee - 102; Boca Raton - 102; Deerfield Beach - 102; Palm Beach - 101; Fort Lauderdale - 95 #
Others E-SFP Unofficial Reports: Pompano Beach - 118; Hallandale Beach - 113; Dania Beach - 108; Fort Lauderdale Courthouse - 105; Davie (Miami Dolphins Training Camp) - 100
### West – SFP ### - Florida Keys: NHC - 125; Cudjoe Key; - 120 Sombrero Key; - 101 Long Key – 74 #
Collier Emergency Operations Center - 125; Naples Airport - 121; Fort Myers Beach - 100; Everglades City - 97; Naples Bellasera Hotel - 86; Cape Coral Elementary - 80; Bonita Springs - 80; Southwest Florida International Airport - 75
Courtesy Jeffers (Click Thumbnail to Enlarge)
10.25 - Florida Power & Light states almost 3.2 million customers remained without power Tuesday morning in what the utility described as the worst outage in its history. 98% of Miami-Dade County's 2.3 million people are without power. Not even Hurricane Andrew achieved that feat in 1992. FPL stated it may take up to four weeks to restore power to everyone because of serious damage to its infrastructure. All public services infrastructure is down on Key Biscayne island. No power, water, sewer, or phones. West side of island (where I live) hit much harder than East side. Miami International Airport closed due to damage (some severe)-power loss. However, one runway is open for emergency relief flights. Airports at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood and Palm Beach are also closed due to damage (some severe)-power loss. Many reports of significant damage to parked private aircrafts in Wilma's path. Wilma also slammed a parked commercial jet head-on into another parked commercial jet doing significant damage to the second jet.
