Thread: Isaias Aftermath

Originally Posted by cudarunner

....Mankind is so proud of our weaponry but compared to Mother Nature we're not even a fart in a mild breeze.

Go surfing once when it's even kind of big and you learn that quickly.

Glad you're okay. Not to diminish anything or anyone but living in Florida you see so many hurricanes we get numb. I should post some pictures I took from Andrew. I did relief work in south Florida after that. It really puts it in perspective. I cried myself to sleep a few nights the deviation was so overwhelming. A couple of months in we were sitting in traffic and I looked over at a car next to us and saw "that look" on a guy's face instantly I said, "you just got here didn't you?" You'd have to see it to believe it. There is just no describing that kind of destruction. Isias or whatever was a tropical storm which means gusts of 71 mph or less. Imagine sustained winds of 200 mph. When we got there there was no power for 2 weeks. Running water, where available, had to be boiled for a month. Not a single tree had a leaf on it. There were no traffic lights. The streets were so covered by debris they looked like they were unpaved. I met people who couldn't find their neighborhood much less their house because not only did the landmarks get blown away but so did ALL the street signs. Several people told me that they were saying goodbye to each other because they were convinced it was the end for them.
I wasn't there for the storm itself but I have personally been through at least 3 category 3 storms...a couple were bordering on cat 4. It's easy to dismiss the difference but 140 mph winds as opposed to 160 mph is starting to become incremental.

Again...not dismissing just saying, count your blessings. It could ALWAYS be worse. Glad you made it through okay.