What hurrcanes have you experienced?

[Modem Butterfly]

I've never been through one, though I live in Atlanta and have been through a few tropical storms. Yikes. My partner grew up in LA, or Lower Alabama (!), and he went through Agnes, Frederick, and Camille (he remember it only vaguely). What hurricanes have you experienced?

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. I've been through

Alecia (In the 80s) in Houston, Floyd in SC, Allison, which was only a tropical storm, but it flooded Houston because it wouldn't go away. There may have been more that were small, but these are the ones that I remember.

[UrbScotty]

2. NONE! Because Ilive in Michigan!

:D

[Demit]

3. Andrew in 92. No fun.

[lpbk2713]

4. Too numerous to mention.

I live in central Florida (Lakeland). Last year topped em all, though. The eyes of three of em went right over me in six weeks time. My heart goes out this morning to the folks in the Pensacola area and beyond.

[FLSurfer]

29. I live in Florida also

Been here since 1985. I have been through too many to mention as well.
This morning I was on the beach at around 4:30 - 5:00 (St Augustine)
Had a really weird feeling of deja vu. Even though the storm is waaay
west of here, saw feeder bands rushing that direction.
Do you think maybe we are all still shell shocked?

It is hard not to be depressed today. I hope we get through the season without another major storm.

Best of luck to all in Dennis' path.

[arwalden]

5. David 1979, Gloria 1985, Isabel 2003,

[Renew Deal]

19. Where were you for Gloria?

I was on LI. I was 9.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Georges, Andrew, Ivan, Isadore,Lilly, Cindy

Andrew was a bad mofo. Ivan shook the house, Cindy uprooted a beautiful redbud we have south of the house. I just got the crap she left behind cleaned up yesterday. I'll soon add Dennis to the list but we are west enough that we won't sustain too much damage, hope, hope. All potential projectiles have been secured. Garage pretty well packed. I need to give the patio a good scrubbing anyway. Best wishes to Mobile, Pensacola and those of you in that area.

[BikeWriter]

7. Texas Gulf Coast-too numerous to mention- Carla was the worst, I think.

[Not_Giving_Up]

8. My mom tells stories about Carla

They had just moved here from Mississippi. My grandfather went to work, then went back home because no one was there.

:hi:

[BikeWriter]

36. Yep, Carla was a bitch. Texas City had four feet and more...

of water in places.

[Saphire]

24. Carla and Alicia that I remember, many more I dont remember.

[BikeWriter]

37. Yep, Alicia was almost as bad as Carla.

[seemunkee]

9. Bob in Cape Cod 1991

Vacationing in cape cod with my brothers family, my mom and uncle. 10 of us all together. We got evacuated to a church where my mom in typical fashion, found out who was in charge and volunteered to help out. I read stories to our kids and others gathered around.
After it blew over we went back to the cottage and had no power or water for the rest of the week except for a generator one hour a day.

Also Agnes in DC back in the 70s we were at scout camp and the bridge to the camp got flooded out. We didn't care and ended up canoeing down the side of the mountain. When it blew over we had to pick up all the fish that got flushed over the spill way and were left lying in a field.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. Pat O'Briens'. New Orleans, 1994.

The ones at Copelands' just aren't the same.

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. Same here

New Orleans May, 1994 two hurricanes at Pat O'Briens' wiped me out. Powerful.

[LynneSin]

11. Agnes and Isabelle

Agnes was when I was a little kid. That hurricane was like out to sea and done and it u-turned back into the mid-atlantic and camped there for like 2 days.


Isabel was more recent. We actually had to close down our downtown Wilmington office, but since we're a credit card company some of us camped out overnight to make sure the servers stayed up and running. Nothing like camping out sleeping in the space under your desk. But she hit landfall south of the Cheskapeake so we were fine throughout the incident



Mostly we get reminments of hurricanes. This one came nearby and dump massive amounts of rain in the Philly area. I remember Gloria because that was my first accident of my own car (lost control and rearended someone)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. I live in Oklahoma, but the after effects of one caused a flood here...

in I think it was either 93 or 95. Can't remember which. It was awful...And My dad didn't let us leave the house, so, it was like we were on a house boat in the middle of a really gross lake. There were snakes and debris everywhere.
As the water was coming up, my dad and I were sitting in the front yard, and a little family of deer came bounding towards us. They were heading to higher ground. Took them a few minutes to see us, and they bounded off to our left, over a fence and out of sight. It was really cool.
Come on...I never said I was from a sane family, did I?
Duckie

[Karenina]

13. Hazel

I was almost 4. All I remember clearly is the wind dying down for a bit and my dad taking me outside to look at the sky...

Had a tornado jump over me in Phoenix and survived the Northridge quake.
Mother Nature does NOT play.

[BamaGirl]

14. Andrew and Opal

were the worst I've been thru. Lots of little ones over the years. I actually have my kids packing now. I've never left for one before. :P I hate hurricanes.

[khashka]

15. Celia

Blew away our house with us in it. I was tiny and I asked my mother "are we all going to die at the same time?"

Khash.

[FLSurfer]

27. I was in Corpus in 1970 with some relatives

I remember Celia. Brutal storm.
I was only 6 at the time so I remember very little about the storm.
Mostly how messy and wet everything was afterward.

[Left Is Write]

16. I have never been in a hurricane.

I have lived in the following states:

Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Idaho.

I've visited places that are in hurricane zones, but never experienced any storms while there.

[Nay]

17. Every hurricane that hit Florida gulf coast between 1951 and 1976.

We lived near the beach and would always have to evacuate.

[Renew Deal]

18. Gloria

I was in Greece when Bob hit and the rest weren't hurricanes when they got here. I have been through a few tropical storms, but none were that bad. The worst was probably Floyd

[bigwillq]

35. Gloria in 1985

Bob came by our way in CT but it wasn't that bad.

[amazona]

20. many

I doubt I could name them all. Some I probably never knew the name, as when in Florida as a child. Much of my adult life I would not have had time or money to evacuate, just had to ride them out. It was a tropical storm that actually crushed my house, but ya'll are probably sick of hearing it. Hell, 1000 trees were brought down in New Orleans by Tropical Storm Cindy that just passed, I guess that's why the lights were out so long.

[Fuzz]

21. I met my wife on a cruise in the Carribean

that ended the Saturday that Andrew was rolling in. Got one of the last planes out. Ended up in Atlanta for the night. Picked that because that's where most of the flights were going and I just wanted to get the hell out! :)

[Taxloss]

22. What we Brits call the Great Gale in 1987.

My school was flooded, I had to pick over fallen trees on my way there.

[DS1]

23. Gloria - almost got driven into the ground when a huge pine tree

fell down into the road seconds after I'd walked by.

New Jersey.

[Reverend_Smitty]

25. Andrew is the biggest I've been through

and for the life of me I can't remember the others I lived in Florida for about 9 years so there were others. Thankfully we've always come out of them ok, no loss of life or property. I was here in Jersey when Floyd hit. We got the day off from school and they canceled the Springsteen concert I was supposed to go to. All it did was rain that day, really no biggie

[Kathy in Cambridge]

28. Hurricane Belle in 1976

I was 12 and we were vacationing on the NH seacoast. We were evacuated.

Hurricane Gloria in 1985 (I tripped on mushrooms)

Hurricane Bob in 1991 (we drove home from the Cape)

The worst storm was the no-name storm that hit Mass. in October of 1991. If you read "The Perfect Storm" or saw the movie, this was the storm that destroyed the Andrea Gail.

http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/perfectstorm.htm

[Akoto]

30. Andrew, Frances, Jeanne

Andrew only glanced us, but we took direct hits from the rest, eye wall and everything. Wrecked our house and knocked down this huge tree that had stood since I was a baby.

[tedoll78]

31. Oh god..

Every New Orleans hurricane between 1978 (my birth year) and 1996 (when I left for college). Then, there was one in September of 1998 when I was visiting home from college.

I love a good hurricane party. When I move back to New Orleans, I'll be carrying-on that tradition. :)

[Tikki]

32. We experienced Hurricane Camille....

...we were living in Western Louisiana (were Mr. Tikki was stationed) and though we were not directly in Camille's path...we received land melting rains and raging storms during her wreck of havoc....that hurricane was tragic.




The Tikkis

[lumberingbear]

33. Charlie, Frances, Jeanne.....

also a couple earlier ones, but can't remember names. (They were tropical storms by the time they reached me.)

Luckily the only damage was from Charlie and that was just some gutter damage on my storage shed.

[Burma Jones]

34. Camille, Agnes, Gloria, Hugo, Bertha, Fran, Floyd and Isabel

Camille hit on my 10th Birthday, we lived east of New Orleans
We were living in the DC area for Agnes
I was in North Carolina for Gloria, Hugo, Bertha, Fran and Floyd
Living in Maryland for Isabel (we had a small tornado about a week later, bizarre weather in September 2003....)

I'm kinda a weather loonie.....