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*** Official 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Thread *** Oscar (1 Viewer)
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El Floppo
Footballguy
thinking the same thing.
and it sounded like he was with a buddy. really hope they get out of this ok. last I heard him talking was complaining about losing his go-pro... which I assume is the camera he left in the car as he ditched to higher-ground.
does that youtube video above cover the floating car action?
culdeus
Footballguy
Jaysus
Good times!
Kilgore Trout
Footballguy
I have an atmospheric science degree so I can say this with scientific certainty. This guy is a forking moron. I certainly hope he is alive, but one of these days some stupid storm chaser is going to die. They are not there for any scientific research. Apparently Adair is a meteorologist so he should know better. Also has 4 kids, so he should know better.
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Fantasy_Freak
Footballguy
She is also posting requesting everyone to pray for his safe return home. I struggle on this, he was safe but drove into the storm in the name of what? So people could see a hurricane in action. The guy has a wife and 4 kids depending on him and he is driving into this storm? I think people should pray he gets a brain and does not put himself and others in this type of danger in the future.
El Floppo
Footballguy
early on, it was his and his buddy's cavalier attitude about the whole thing- I keep bringing up them wanting to get to where stuff was getting "blowed up", all the while laughing about it all. of course- the laughter very well may have been a nervous response to the danger and not actual hilarity... but the laughing before the #### went down tells me otherwise. I can see wanting to report this for the sake of... dunno. but going there hoping to cash-in on calamity and destruction... ugh.
shader
Footballguy
Crazy hour. He was in Port St. Joseph, as that is where it was supposed to be headed. When it became obvious that the eyewall was hitting up around Mexico Beach, they made the really dumb decision to start heading that way. Back in the thread, many of us were watching a different youtuber who was driving in the eyewall (and who was very lucky not to get impaled). Then we noticed that Adair had gotten into some really bad weather, then he suddenly got caught in the storm surge and it was lights out. Really bad decision but once he made it, he was exposed and didn't have many options. His friend was really annoying to. If you are going to go storm-chasing, do it alone. Not with a daredevil buddy.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Oh, man..... Also, I can't imagine what some of those trailer park sites in-land are going to look like.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Yeah, when you build a home with wood stilts, it's no match for a hurricane.
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9329488,-85.3963975,3a,75y,359.25h,76.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sE90lsvEV6M3iV5zPAZeeQg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Look at the stick legs on this home. it's gotta be gone completely.
beer 30
Footballguy
What freaking idiot drives over and through the power line spaghetti maze like that? Darwin award winner in the making.
Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
Looks like 4x4 holding up the deck and either telephone poles or 12x12 posts holding up the actual house
Scoresman
Footballguy
From what I hear, every house in Mexico Beach is gone. Pretty sure my sister-in-law's house included, even though she was about a mile inland.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I don't build down there so my local codes are nil to not much... but pretty sure that's how you build for hurricanes. I think it's about habitable spaces needing to be above flood heightLooks like 4x4 holding up the deck and either telephone poles or 12x12 posts holding up the actual house
El Floppo
Footballguy
Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
I am assuming cell service is down. Last heard from my doctor friend just before 1PM. She evacuated her home yesterday (mandatory evac for her neighborhood) and is at some friends' further inland. She had lost power already and had her dog in the bathtub with her, because the wind was picking up and she could hear stuff hitting the roof. She wasn't in the direct path, but nearby. Really glad she didn't stay at her house.
T&P for anyone in the path or near it. Rough one.
T&P for anyone in the path or near it. Rough one.
JaxBill
Footballguy
48 hours ago i wouldn't have thought borderline cat 5 but i thought it could become a serious cat 3.
They pretty much had the path nailed. So if youre on a barrier island in the path of a possible cat3 and could get out but didn't... i dunno.
I feel bad for the folks further inland that never thought they'd be dealing with hurricane force winds. Some of those panhandle towns on I10 are a couple hundred feet above sea level. No way they pictured this.
Scoresman
Footballguy
No, she evacuated to Orlando. She said one of the videos that has been making the rounds on the internet is of her complex.
I don't think those twigs held up.Looks like 4x4 holding up the deck and either telephone poles or 12x12 posts holding up the actual house
JaxBill
Footballguy
And storm categories need some work. Florence and Michael were 2 totally different storms but both devastating in their own way.
culdeus
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
I thought they were still in the car actively filming- I was just about ####ting myself.
horrifying seeing that go down
culdeus
Footballguy
Gfs has a 980mb Michael making a comeback in the barrier islands of north carolina.
I could see evacs being ordered. Tonight.
Osaurus
Footballguy
If it did go down that way, officials could have used it as a PSA for what not to do in a hurricane.
I thought they were still in the car actively filming- I was just about ####ting myself.
horrifying seeing that go down
culdeus
Footballguy
Osaurus
Footballguy
Gotta disagree on this one. What they are trying to do is no different than an astronaut heading into space or a submariner going very deep in the ocean. Maybe not as refined, or supported by "science" but they provide valuable footage, and thus information. Just like you do in a lab. And while we have known for decades when/where hurricanes are going to hit I'm not sure that I have watched more compelling footage.
Astronauts have died. Submariners have died. Mountaineers. Explorers. Race car drivers. None of those people had to do what they were doing. So perhaps a storm chaser ends up dying. While its preventable, I sure wouldn't say its not for a good cause.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
shader
Footballguy
They probably still will. That’s the best footage I’ve ever seen of how quickly storm surge can threaten life.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
shader
Footballguy
Oh come on. Two rednecks daring each other to do dumber and dumber things is not how we learn about hurricanes, even if we get some interesting footage along the way.
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
Not arguing their intelligence. Only their results and willingness to risk safety to get it. It's incredible footage. And I have yet to see a drone that can handle the situation, or a webcam that moves around taking similar video.
If it was so simple to do without human involvement, wouldn't we have seen footage like this thousands of times over already?
Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
That's for sure. I was watching live earlier but didn't have my sound up so I missed the conversation he was having with his boss or whoever he was talking to on the phone just a couple minutes prior to that saying "there won't be surge" and the driver says something like "I am telling you, there IS surge." Clearly this was beyond what most everyone expected in that area, even the weatherguys.
Flotation happens shortly after the 42:00 mark. Surreal to watch that.
Tecumseh
Footballguy
Reporter for ABC rode out the storm in MB. It's devastated. So sad. Cape San Blas, Port St. Joe, and Mexico Beach are where we vacation every year. I've been literally tearing up seeing all this damage. I'm very afraid to see what happened out on CSB.
And....that's exactly the point I'm trying to make here. That footage, which maybe drones or webcams could provide, is far more compelling. And in being compelling, we learn, and thus gain information about how quickly things change. Of course we could read our science books and we would know all this, but the footage tells a story that resonates.
