Charley, Frances, Ivan = Death to me

[Darwin]

Opal, like... 6 or 7 years ago, completely tore our beach house up in Florida.

[Lucid]

The worst i've lived through is a cat-5 Hurricane (the strongest there is).

Hurricane Iniki (Sept. 11th 1992) about 3 billion in damages, something like a hundred hurt, 10 deaths, 15,000 homes destroyed

(rough estimates off of memory)

I got to watch my fence get plucked out of the ground one by one, through what i could see between our boarded windows. All of our windows caved in, our lawn was torn apart, all of our coconut trees were de-leafed, and most of the contents of our garage ended up in the neighbors pool.

one of the news shots of iniki
<img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/m/aml220/Hurricane%20Iniki.jpg">

I cant find the dates for it, but I was in Hurricane Ewa in 1982, even though i cant say i remember it heh.

I think tornados a little more scary though, a bit more faster and volatile. On a side note, that looks like my car there, furthest away, the brown mazda looking car.

[HUBBA]

I was there too Lucid, it was pretty bad. I was stationed on Oahu at the time. We flew relief missions back and fourth to the other Islands. Oahu didn't get hit that bad though. I also have video of the volcano on the Big Island when it erupted. That was a disaster all them homes and beaches gone.

[Lucid]

yeah it didnt hit oahu that hard, but the windward side got alot of the swell from the hurricanes momentum, like the 100 mph winds, and the 40-50 foot waves (on the leeward side, dont remember the wave height clearly, but i do remmeber thinking "thats not possible for waves to get that high"). It wasnt ripping off roofs, but it was throwing around anything that wasnt bolted to the ground , or in the case of our fence, not bolted to the ground well enough.

[WolfTones]

Go to kazza and look for "Charley" video...it's crazy