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Hurricane Claudette
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Big Pooh
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Hi Maria :wave: and thanks for the concern. I live in Beaumont, Tx about 30 miles west of La and 35 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. We got VERY lucky this time as Claudette went west and skirted right by us. We got 25-30 mph winds and 1 inch of rain. The Texas coast all the way from Galveston, about 65 miles SW of here, on down to Corpus Christi and possibly further got hit pretty hard. When I went to bed Monday night Claudette was a loosely organized Tropical Storm nearly sitting nearly stationary, and the weather channel here was predicting a Tuesday afternoon or evening landfall. When I woke up Tuesday morning, Claudette was a strenghtening Hurricane with a well defined eye wall about 75 miles off the coast. It made landfall about an hour later.
You know, we had this same conversation last year...:animwink: :lol: I just can't remember the name of the storm. Here's hoping you and yours are well and stay safe during Hurricane season.
Cheers :wave:
You know, we had this same conversation last year...:animwink: :lol: I just can't remember the name of the storm. Here's hoping you and yours are well and stay safe during Hurricane season.
Cheers :wave:
Lovecraft
Member
An outer band of claudette spun off and made some weird weather here in Pensacola Beach saturday.
I had never seen so much rain fall here in so little time and the wind sheer came in like a tornado.
When the rain started I ran outside to put the top up on my car and just as I stepped out of the car, some of my neighbor's lawn furniture started flying at me.. I caught a chair and then a footstool/endtable (plastic furniture) with the chair and gave it to my neighbors when we saw that the boats in the back in the bay began to slam into each other. We ran to secure the boats while sand was whipping up at us hitting like tiny needles and furniture and debris flew everywhere.
Then INCREDIBLE amounts of rain came down all at once. It was crazy, the weather had been beautiful all day then Wham! We thought a tornado had hit as the winds died in a matter of minutes. The rain continued here on the beach for about an hour and a half and flooded the street (the rain half filled an empty 5 gallon bucket I had in a matter of minutes.)
After the winds died down I went outside again to check on my plumaria's that I got from the EPCOT flower and garden show (they were fine) but some of MY outdoor funiture was missing. My furniture has a metal base and I found the missing chair in the parkeing lot wedged between two parked cars.
I haven't seen it like this before even when the last tropical storm smacked us.
I hope it is well in your parts, just a freaky little rogue peice of claudette hit us and the wind sheer at the beginning was nastier than a hurricane.
Lovecraft
I had never seen so much rain fall here in so little time and the wind sheer came in like a tornado.
When the rain started I ran outside to put the top up on my car and just as I stepped out of the car, some of my neighbor's lawn furniture started flying at me.. I caught a chair and then a footstool/endtable (plastic furniture) with the chair and gave it to my neighbors when we saw that the boats in the back in the bay began to slam into each other. We ran to secure the boats while sand was whipping up at us hitting like tiny needles and furniture and debris flew everywhere.
Then INCREDIBLE amounts of rain came down all at once. It was crazy, the weather had been beautiful all day then Wham! We thought a tornado had hit as the winds died in a matter of minutes. The rain continued here on the beach for about an hour and a half and flooded the street (the rain half filled an empty 5 gallon bucket I had in a matter of minutes.)
After the winds died down I went outside again to check on my plumaria's that I got from the EPCOT flower and garden show (they were fine) but some of MY outdoor funiture was missing. My furniture has a metal base and I found the missing chair in the parkeing lot wedged between two parked cars.
I haven't seen it like this before even when the last tropical storm smacked us.
I hope it is well in your parts, just a freaky little rogue peice of claudette hit us and the wind sheer at the beginning was nastier than a hurricane.
Lovecraft
Big Pooh, glad to hear you are fine! Yes, we had this conversation, but for Hurricane Isidore! :animwink:
Lovecraft, I hear ya with the sand hitting like needless! It´s awful! ouch! Good thing you didn´t have any broken windows or damages by the debris falling around!
Lovecraft, I hear ya with the sand hitting like needless! It´s awful! ouch! Good thing you didn´t have any broken windows or damages by the debris falling around!