COUNTDOWN TO HURRICANE SEASON 2002

National Hurricane Center ^ | May 2002 | President George W. Bush

[FlJoePa]

Interesting hurricane site which lists the top 50 cities/islands likely to be hit or affected by a hurricane this year:

Hurricane Probability Site

[My Favorite Headache]

Bring it on....

[mhking]

Interesting hurricane site

I love Hurricane City - I've been using it for the last four years, and it only gets better every year. One of the best features is the live streaming during land-falling hurricanes.

[varina davis]

2) U.S. East Coast Including Peninsula Florida - 57% (average for last century is 31%)

It's true, Florida might really be a hot target this season. Stay safe Stainless.

[My Favorite Headache]

Living in Florida and having gone through 28 years of these alerts and seasons and having been in about 7 Tropical Storms and 2 maybe 3 hurricanes at the most I can tell you South Florida is LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG overdue. So is the West coast ala Naples/Ft.Myers. They say Marco Island hasn't been hit because of an Indian prayer that was said years and years ago to protect it. Oddly enough I spoke to an insurance guy the other day and he told me the old folks are praying for a category 3 or 4 to hit the island because they want to collect on the insurance and the city planners want to start from scratch since the Island was built backwards and all wrong.

Methinks there will not be much left of land or anything else after a Cat 4 on Marco. A 5 would destroy and sink it.I was on the fringes of Andrew. Winds got to 110 mph in my front yard sustained for about 45 mins then down to 90 mph for the rest of the night. It was a ride for sure. But little did we know what was going on 30 miles south of us.Amazing days those were. I still say a Hurricane is one of the most intense and beautiful things to witness on this Earth.

[My Favorite Headache]

I remember seeing ole Bob Sheets at a conference on the lessons after Andrew. He said had the storm had a landfall of just 25 miles further north everything would have been leveled from Miami Beach north to Ft.Laud on A1A west past Sawgrass. LEVELED!!!! Can you imagine that arena and mall going through Andrew? All of that chaos in populated cities? Andrew hit in such a sparsely populated area South Florida really lucked out.

I do remember back in what I think was 1998 when there was literally a Hurricane that stretched from the Keys to GA. It was a stong Cat-4 at the time and South Florida was under the gun for sure. Sure enough...cold front. Bye!

Had that hit forget it. Re-building would still be going on.The thing that sticks in my mind now in post-9-11 times...is that would be an ideal time for any terrorist movement in Florida. Because law enforcement is busy doing planning and protecting other parts of the city. Different ball game this time around. On 9-11 this past year I remember a tropical storm was hitting the west coast of Florida and it was like the buried story of the day. Had it been any other day...top story and news.

How would you say the success rate of Hurricane City is?

[SC Swamp Fox]

If a storm approaches Gitmo, I wonder where the gov't will move our guests? They can bring them to SC, we'll give them an appropriate welcome.

[varina davis]

I agree that hurricanes are awesome to behold. Part of the intrigue is their autonomy --- nature's way of giving us something that none of us can really do anything about.

[Rebelbase]

See your #9 and bump to a championship!

[mhking]

How would you say the success rate of Hurricane City is?

I would call it VERY successful. Jim (Williams, the webmaster there) has put together a huge batch of tools and he's got one heck of a weather station at his base to work with as well.

[My Favorite Headache]

Bookmarking this...and will save the hurricane city then. Thanks....

[varina davis]

On 9-11 this past year I remember a tropical storm was hitting the west coast of Florida and it was like the buried story of the day.

That was Tropical Storm Gabrielle and she crossed Florida east to west about the time of 9/11. You're right. Little attention was paid to the weather during that time.

[FlJoePa]

Just a reminder of the force of Andrew:

[varina davis]

crossed Florida east to west Ooops! Meant from the Fla. west coast to the east coast!

[My Favorite Headache]

Looks like I have a Floridian up with me tonight

[jimtorr]

I wonder how fast the wind has to be to hurl that piece of wall/roof through the trunk of a tree. Granted, a palm tree isn't exactly hardwood, but still..............

[My Favorite Headache]

Happy 10th Birthday to Andrew...

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[sneakypete]

Why doesn't he just make hurricanes illegal? (sarcasm)