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How's the weather?

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NJ-Buckeye said:
Dunno how many folks have experienced a hurricane... but when you're being pounded by 100 mph winds and it goes on for like 30 straight hours.. you get frazzled.. you start staring at the windows knowing there is no way they can hold out... you know the roof is going to go... and shortly after it's over, the sun is screaming and the sky is perfectly blue and cloudless... then you look around and it appears that the Russians just carpet bombed your town
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I've been through more than my share of them.
some were intense, others were nothing to brag about.

rode out 4 of them (ranging from weak Cat 1 to Cat 3 level) that were direct hits and the eye passed over head.

but easily the most intense I ever experienced was when the worst part of Katrina came ashore.
the eye missed us, passing about 20 miles or so to my east.
but in the total and complete darkness of a 4am shitstorm barreling through the bayou, the sounds that bitch made is something I may never forget.

the wind howled unmercifully for what felt like years. all around us, you could hear trees popping.
it wasn't a normally slow crack and fall like with the typical storm.
these were really loud pops followed by the thud of something really goddamn heavy hitting the ground.

when daylight finally came around, the winds and rains still made it impossible to see very far, but could see well enough to know this wasn't your average hurricane that was hitting.
somewhere around 7am or so, we lost radio signal. New Orleans (where we get all our local feeds) was hit so hard, that nothing was transmitting out anymore.

next day when the weather finally gave up we were finally able to venture out.
we still had no clue about anything outside of the street we stayed on that night.
most of the roads were closed. trees, power lines, some houses, etc were scattered all over the damn place.
cell service was non-existant. even land lines were virtually useless.

2 days after, I was finally able to hunt down my brother-in-law in the next town over.
he set me up with a small portable generator to bring to my house (i was only one in the family with Satellite TV at the time).
me, him, and my dad went hooked it up to my TV so we could get some type of news about something/anything from the outside world.

and that was when we saw the true extent of the damages that bitch caused.
seeing the images of the Mississippi gulf coast, followed by the horrors in New Orleans was like a punch to the gut.
 
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