One of the scariest things ever, I can imagine, would be to see weather

Tiggity® · 2025-10-28T15:13:44.178Z

nerds geeking out about data from a hurricane that is about to hit you. That #### is uncalled for. 3rd strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Strongest Atlantic hurricane at landfall, ever. Making landfall as we speak. Winds assumed to be 185-200 sustained with gusts to 250, according to the geeks. It was still strengthening right up to landfall. Sand dee prayers to da rastas and all the Jamaicans, mon. Dat win doe...... https://x.com/TrueJJMurray/status/1983188049745039725

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Hugo, on the east side of Columbia, was as close as I'd ever want to get.

Oct 28, 2025, 11:57 AM

The eye of Hugo was moving over 30mph when it came through SC, and it went right between Columbia and Sumter, so where I live we got hit pretty hard. Still had 110mph sustained winds, or more, when it came through. The eye was about 15 miles to our east.

Parents had a 2-story brick house. My bedroom was upstairs. I vividly remember hearing the waves of rain and wind. It would get calm and quiet for several minutes, then you'd hear a faint rumble, then it would get louder and louder to a roar them BOOM, it would hit and the all-brick house would shake. We ended up sleeping downstairs. Neighbors lost about 4-5 large pines, one through their conversion van. Found some baby squirrels in a downed tree 2 doors down, I raised them and named them Rocky, and Hugo. We were at the very western edge of the bad damage, and I'm sure we had 100mph wind gusts at our house. Downtown atop the 20-story building they measured a 110mph gust. Head 10-15 miles down 378 east towards Sumter and whole forests of pines were snapped in half like toothpicks, so could have been worse.

When Helene came through, in our part of Lexington were were on the far east side. Probably had 70mph gusts. We lost power and had some minor tree damage, but everything west of our house, going towards Saluda, looked almost as bad as Hugo.

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When folks say, "You'll regret that in the morning", I just sleep until noon, because I'm a problem solver.

Walkled outside during the eye, saw stars. Can only describe it as bizarre. But it was that little beeyatch Sally that threw a tree on top of my house. F her.

Katrina was weird, we didn't take a direct hit, but it lasted all day. I'd never seen so many small violent vortices blowing through. Top of the oak in my back yard would be fine one second, the next it was all twisted up at the top like match sticks. Wind died down about 5 and neighbors slowly emerged, it was a crazy sight. The entire landscape was green from the foliage being blown out of the trees. Couldn't see the asphalt in the street for it. It was a bad, bad cleanup.

Went with the church group to Chalmette and New Orleans East to help cleanup, distribute water and such and so much of it was just gone. I still have the occasional nightmare about the residents there that were suffering. Even 5 years later the place was a ghost town.

Seems as bad as that typhon that hit Asia last month

They be like that

Here's a good one, about 10 miles inland.

We were at Pawleys Island and got the edges of Helene...

Hugo, on the east side of Columbia, was as close as I'd ever want to get.

The local weather nerds get all excited every time we have hurricane

Hurricane Ivan went right over the top of my house.

I rode out Ivan in my apartment in Pensacola.

Re: Reminds me of Irma and Maria hitting the USVI

My aunt and uncle lived in Homestead FL for Andrew

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