Areal footage.
Tyndall Air Force Base suffered extreme damage from Hurricane #Michael as it came ashore. Nearly every structure on base suffered roofing damage according to the base commander. #flwx #tropics pic.twitter.com/9WeXTwMSu4— Zach Covey (@ZachWPDE) October 11, 2018
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Drone footage of hurricane damage.
* That overturned fighter jet pictured on the front page is just a display model, it's a shell. All flyable jets were flown to a safe base.One time I asked the internet what happens to birds during a hurricane and the answer is, "They die. By the tens of thousands."
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Drone footage of hurricane damage.
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This is why you get the Hell out when warned.
I see lots of roof damage, seemingly from a certain type or age of construction. I would guess 1970s era.
Lots of house trailer damage. It's Florida, duh.
Does a fast moving high wind hurricane cause less damage overall because it leaves the ocean area quickly (removed from its source of energy and water) than a slow moving low wind tropical storm that hangs just far enough inland to suck continual energy/water from the ocean and drop 40 inches of rain over a week, because there was no continental frontal system to push it on? I'm thinking the former.
It was a sneaky bastard storm.
Doesn't make me want to live on any coastal area - ever.
It's America - we re-build. Even thought it might not be wise to do so.
Just heard from my 70 year old cousin in Florida. He was in Panama City proper, a few miles from the beach, and decided to ride it out.
Bad call. Initially he and his wife were sitting against the front door trying to keep it from blowing open. As things picked up they retreated to a bathroom he had converted to a safe room.
Then the roof blew off. Things started flying around and the rain and wind came inside. He has a big nice house. Had a big nice house. It's pretty much totaled.
They're still stuck in place until the roads are cleared. No cell service from ATT, but he uses his neighbor's cell to call relatives.
He said it was the most scared he had ever been in his life. The man flew F15's over Germany and Korea during the cold war so I'll take his word for it.
I've been in really bad weather a few times, not this bad, but bad enough and it is truly frightening. You feel helpless.
Did they not fly the jets out? Why not?
"That overturned fighter jet pictured on the front page is just a display model, it's a shell. All flyable jets were flown to a safe base."
Rabel --
OK, that makes sense, thanks.
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