Baron, how did you enjoy your first-ever November hurricane?

[Overnight]

Not to make light of it, but you are now living history. I believe you are in Orlando or thereabouts, and you are the first forum host to ever live through a hurricane in Florida in November.

I assume the worst parts of the hurricane for you were Mickey-Mouse bits from nearby Disney World flying into your yard. I reckon' the flooding was not bad, just a typical heavy downpour like the psychotic T-Storms you occasionally get?

 

[Baron]

I woke up at 5:45AM not expecting much, but I gotta tell you, it was some of the hardest rain I've seen in a long time. The storm last month was way stronger wind but this one was all rain with some strong gusts here and there. I'm just happy there's nowhere near as much storm debris to clean up.

Unfortunately, the storm surge and beach erosion at some of my favorite beaches nearby was pretty brutal again. Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach got hammered once again and prior to the last two storms, these were beaches that were flat, wide and they even allowed cars to drive on and park at during the day. Now, not only is the beach gone but now the storm surge has taken out the houses and commercial buildings on the oceanfront.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1590718115783970817

 

[gwb-trading]

I woke up at 5:45AM not expecting much, but I gotta tell you, it was some of the hardest rain I've seen in a long time. The storm last month was way stronger wind but this one was all rain with some strong gusts here and there. I'm just happy there's nowhere near as much storm debris to clean up.

Unfortunately, the storm surge and beach erosion at some of my favorite beaches nearby was pretty brutal again. Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach got hammered once again and prior to the last two storms, these were beaches that were flat, wide and they even allowed cars to drive on and park at during the day. Now, not only is the beach gone but now the storm surge has taken out the houses and commercial buildings on the oceanfront.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1590718115783970817

Glad to hear you have weathered the storm OK. The video of the beach erosion is eye opening.

We have the remnants of Nicole up here in North Carolina today with heavy rain, winds gusting to 35 or so, and scattered power outages -- but nothing like what Florida experienced.

 

[Baron]

Glad to hear you have weathered the storm OK. The video of the beach erosion is eye opening.

We have the remnants of Nicole up here in North Carolina today with heavy rain, winds gusting to 35 or so, and scattered power outages -- but nothing like what Florida experienced.

I lived in Raleigh in 1996 when hurricane Fran hit and that was my first true hurricane experience that caused devastating damage. A couple years later I moved to Orlando, so I basically just left one hurricane zone and headed straight to another one.

 

[gwb-trading]

I lived in Raleigh in 1996 when hurricane Fran hit and that was my first true hurricane experience that caused devastating damage. A couple years later I moved to Orlando, so I basically just left one hurricane zone and headed straight to another one.

I was here for Hurricane Fran as well living in Cary. I was working late that evening with our engineering team and the storm was getting worse & everyone left just after 8pm. On my drive home the trees were swaying out in RTP (all tall pines). I got home & turned on the news -- just to hear the words on WRAL that "we were wrong in our forecast -- the eye of the hurricane is actually coming right here" moments before the power went out at 9pm something -- and Hurricane Fran came inland like a buzz saw.

It was a long night. We got the our three young kids down to the lowest floor (they slept through it). Trees piled up on our roof. In the morning we woke up with everyone having holes in their roof from fallen trees (big hardwoods tilted over by the roots). All the neighbors gathered to saw a path out of our sub-division and to remove the trees from roofs and get tarps up. We had no electricity for three weeks.

Before Fran I used to think - "What's the deal with hurricanes - some wind, some rain, so what's the big deal". After Fran -- "I would be the first one to evacuate if I am at the beach and hear a hurricane is coming".

 

[Overnight]

Glad to hear you have weathered the storm OK. The video of the beach erosion is eye opening.

We have the remnants of Nicole up here in North Carolina today with heavy rain, winds gusting to 35 or so, and scattered power outages -- but nothing like what Florida experienced.

We're getting the remnants of Nicole tonight through tomorrow morning here in New England. So thanks @Baron for sending us your smegma.