These things really are a crapshoot. I remember being in the expected path of two during my time in the navy. First time I was in VA. Beach on shore duty and the storm turned East and out to sea. We got the day off anyway and played golf in the sunshine.
Second time I was on shore duty in Charleston and they predicted the storm (HUGO) would turn north. It didn’t and it hit us dead on. Mass destruction, deaths, flooding, islands washed away, no power for at least a week, 2 months worth of sawing up downed trees, etc.
Hurricanes are like a box of chocolates....
You're so right. Hugo was a terrible storm. We were battened down in Newport News, VA, but after it demolished Charleston, it went west and THEN turned north, and we just had a few justs of wind. Never thought I'd see a hurricane to the west.
Watched live chopper views of the ships going out to sea in Norfolk yesterday. God bless our sailors and keep them safe! (and their families left on shore having to deal with this storm!)
btw, thanks for serving!
My sis was in Hugo on St. Croix. It was horrible there and we didn’t hear from her for days. She finally made it to Puerto Rico and then flew to my home with her bedragled cat. That’s all she had left...herself and her cat. It was a blessed day when we finally heard from her.
This one’s different, it seems.
All the predictions match.
You must have been at the WPNSTA. I was working there when Hugo hit. Immovable barge that took a trip up river. Boats every where, and the Ben Sawyer Bridge, oh, that gets me everytime I see the picture of it - all twisted and broken, but they fixed it. The alligator that drowned on the IOP.