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There have been four hurricanes to hit the U.S. as Category 5 storms...
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:47 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:47 pm
1. The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
2. Hurricane Camille (1969)
3. Hurricane Andrew (1992)
4. Hurricane Michael (2018)
Now obviously the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 is not that well remembered (at least by modern humans) due to the fact that it impacted the Florida Keys almost 90 years ago. However, of the remaining three, Michael seems to have had the least amount of cultural impact. This despite the fact that social media and 24-hour media coverage were at their peak when Michael came ashore that October.
Why is it that Michael is known as the "Forgotten Category 5"? Is it due to where it made landfall? Andrew hit the suburbs of Miami but Camille didn't really impact a highly populated area, yet its cultural impact can still be felt over 50 years later. It's like Michael came, went, and then the world moved on with a few updates about recovery efforts here and there.
I just find it weird that it hasn't had a lasting impact like the others have had.
2. Hurricane Camille (1969)
3. Hurricane Andrew (1992)
4. Hurricane Michael (2018)
Now obviously the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 is not that well remembered (at least by modern humans) due to the fact that it impacted the Florida Keys almost 90 years ago. However, of the remaining three, Michael seems to have had the least amount of cultural impact. This despite the fact that social media and 24-hour media coverage were at their peak when Michael came ashore that October.
Why is it that Michael is known as the "Forgotten Category 5"? Is it due to where it made landfall? Andrew hit the suburbs of Miami but Camille didn't really impact a highly populated area, yet its cultural impact can still be felt over 50 years later. It's like Michael came, went, and then the world moved on with a few updates about recovery efforts here and there.
I just find it weird that it hasn't had a lasting impact like the others have had.
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Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:49 pm to RollTide1987
Because it wiped out a relatively unpopulated Florida panhandle.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:50 pm to TigerTatorTots
I still say Ida hit as a cat 5 the last hurricane hunter run didn’t happen…..
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:52 pm to RollTide1987
The Florida Panhandle is a super sparsely populated region. I’m pretty sure that South Louisiana has more people than the FL panhandle
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:52 pm to RollTide1987
Because it trashed some beach houses but not a ton else
Ida was within sniffing distance of Cat 5, and 3 years later it would have been forgotten nationally because it hit the Houma area
Ida was within sniffing distance of Cat 5, and 3 years later it would have been forgotten nationally because it hit the Houma area
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:54 pm to RollTide1987
The Florida Keys is the luckiest place on earth compared to the stretch from Slidell to Mobile. I’ve never understood it, they should’ve been wiped off the face of the earth many more times than us. ?????
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:54 pm to RollTide1987
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There have been four hurricanes to hit the U.S. as Category 5 storms...
This can't be right... I've been told by some very smart democrats that Hurricanes are worse than ever before because of climate change. That we've never seen hurricanes as bad as we see them now.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:54 pm to RollTide1987
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Camille didn't really impact a highly populated area, yet its cultural impact can still be felt over 50 years later.
Camille took out my grandparents beach house in Waveland, I was 5 years old. I still remember that house 55 years later, we loved it there.. They had one of the longest private piers on the coast. Caught my first fish there.
They rebuilt it bigger and "better" after Betsy, but after Camille it was nothing but a slab. They decided to sell the property, which was two lots, and no other major storm hit till Katrina.
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 8:59 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:56 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Because it trashed some beach houses but not a ton else
Camille likewise did this in 1969. Waveland, Mississippi was a town of just over 7,000 people when Camille made landfall there, and yet its cultural impact is still felt to this very day.
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:58 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Because it trashed some beach houses but not a ton else
Not quite factual.
It also completely wiped Tyndall AFB off the map, which was at the time the home base for the F-22 training squadron.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 8:58 pm to RollTide1987
I agree Ida was a 5 no matter what the Gov says. Several reports from Fourchon had sustained 170 with gust to 220.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:00 pm to RollTide1987
Camille killed 130 people and had the highest wind speeds of any Atlantic ‘cane
Those kinds of things get remembered
Those kinds of things get remembered
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:04 pm to CroakaBait
quote:Storms generally hit the Keys coming from the south or east. Cuba’s mountains weaken the storms or at least prevent them from strengthening. Storms coming from the east have all the Caribbean islands to impede strengthening. Compared to storms hitting the northern Gulf coast having hundreds of miles of wide open water to blow up in strength.
The Florida Keys is the luckiest place on earth compared to the stretch from Slidell to Mobile. I’ve never understood it, they should’ve been wiped off the face of the earth many more times than us. ?????
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 9:05 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:04 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Camille killed 130 people and had the highest wind speeds of any Atlantic ‘cane
Camille fricked up Appalachia, too, as it moved up the interior of the east coast.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:08 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
And a massive 22 ft wall of water that slammed into the coast just obliterating everything in its path.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:10 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Ida was within sniffing distance of Cat 5, and 3 years later it would have been forgotten nationally because it hit the Houma area
Only reason why they cared is bc they wanted the oil turned back on.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:12 pm to RollTide1987
Of relative note, Hurricane Camille also caused great flooding in Appalachian areas.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:14 pm to RollTide1987
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Did you hear that one about Michael?
Some say he must be gay
I tried to argue, but they said if he was straight
He wouldn't move that way
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:17 pm to RollTide1987
I think as we go forward seeing more old construction destroyed and being replaced with structures built to higher standards (as we are seeing in Florida) each successive major storm does less and less noticeable damage to coastal towns. It will probably get to where it takes significant inland impacts, like with Helene, for a storm to have lasting impacts like some of those past storms. Damage will be more isolated and surge (and associated water damage) will be the bulk of that.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 9:17 pm to LSUDUCKMAN67
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I still say Ida hit as a cat 5 the last hurricane hunter run didn’t happen…..
I remember laying in bed the morning it was coming towards us. My wife and I were watching TV and they had video of the winds in Port Fourchon. I looked at my wife and said, we f’d up staying home. Luckily, she turned slightly east before it hit Thibodaux. Was still rough, but could have been worse for us.
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