I posted this in the thread checking on our Florida friends(I have yet to hear from a close friend, who lives with his wife in Longboat Key, but I’m sure their persons are safe) I’m posting again here, because it’s the best clip I’ve ever seen showing the sequence of a storm surge…
What I did not realize until a few minutes ago, is that there was a couple in the red house, one sees the upstairs door open at the .05 mark, and a bit later, and that they escape after the house floated away. As noted in the first comment: UPDATE - We have confirmed via family that the people who were staying in this house at the time of the storm somehow were able to make it out alive even after floating away….
Reminds me of an account from the Hurricane of ‘38. After their 3 story house, located on a narrow peninsula in Watch Hill, RI, disintegrated, the parents and children rode the floor of their attic a couple of miles in the Atlantic, before safely landing on a small island, from which they were later rescued.
So many think of the wind, and how will it rate. Here is a dramatic sequence illustrating why the storm surge can be so deadly….
What I did not realize until a few minutes ago, is that there was a couple in the red house, one sees the upstairs door open at the .05 mark, and a bit later, and that they escape after the house floated away. As noted in the first comment: UPDATE - We have confirmed via family that the people who were staying in this house at the time of the storm somehow were able to make it out alive even after floating away….
Reminds me of an account from the Hurricane of ‘38. After their 3 story house, located on a narrow peninsula in Watch Hill, RI, disintegrated, the parents and children rode the floor of their attic a couple of miles in the Atlantic, before safely landing on a small island, from which they were later rescued.
So many think of the wind, and how will it rate. Here is a dramatic sequence illustrating why the storm surge can be so deadly….
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