This is what a Category 4 hurricane looks like

[Gator]

Hurricane Laura

I would not recommend doing this.

 

[Rhino]

HOURS of screaming wind and whitecaps on the highway. Absolutely unfathomable destruction. Few parallels can be drawn between our Iowa Derecho and your Hurricane Laura. At very least Laura could be tracked. Inadequate warnings could be issued.

 

[moon puppy]

I remember all too well Hugo slamming SC all the way up to Charlotte. Even as far west as we are from Charleston we got high winds and rain bands.

 

[Barney]

I've lived in Florida and LA (Lower Alabama) and was sent to St Croix, days after Hugo. The devastation caused a CAT IV or V storm is difficult to imagine to anyone who hasn't lived through it. My niece (a USAF Major) was sent to PR after Maria. Terrible.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Yeah, I've been through a number of storms myself so I'm very familiar with them. I still remember in 1969 when we were in Virginia and Hurricane Camille hit us from landside... while still a Cat 5 storm! We never knew it was coming. None of our windows were taped up or boarded up and I and my sisters were pressed to the window glass watching the storm. My mother had even gone out shopping and came back in the midst of the storm. Only God kept us from being casualties....

 

[Gator]

Camille is one those storms that is, for a lack of a better term, a benchmark storm just like Audrey, Rita, Katrina and now Laura for Louisiana. We will forever measure future storms by the damage Laura did.

 

[moon puppy]

Sending prayers to you Kenny, looks like you got hit yet again?

 

[Sharkmouth]

I spend quite a few Summers in Puerto Rico. Most Hurricanes hit it in September. My son spent almost each Summer there as well. One time, during a Hurricane which washed out the roads to the capital (San Juan), my son's ear began bleeding. I was told to get him to San Juan (which was impassable) so I ended up in nearby Mayaguez. Luckily, one of the tubal ligation tubes was coming out and scratched him. The hurricane left and I flew into NYC in time to get hit by the very same storm a second time!

Regards,

 

[Heavens Eagle]

I've had friends that lived in hurricane areas tell me that they wouldn't live in Oklahoma because of the tornados. I told them back that I wouldn't live where they were because of the hurricanes. The difference is it isn't a matter of if, but a matter of when.

Gosh guys I am sorry you are getting slammed this year.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Yeah, I remember a situation like Saul's where I got hit by a hurricane twice. It was Elena and she took my car and wrapped it around a sturdy tree. And yes Paul, I've heard the same exchange. In my opinion; at least we have quite a bit of advanced notice of a Hurricane coming and more time to prepare for it. A tornado can be on top of you before you even know one is in the area. Still, to each his own. I've lived in or traveled through both areas and they are both beautiful areas.

Kenny, I do hope you came through Delta okay. I have prayed that all was well with you and your family.