John,
I have seen people move here & install their Hurricane Shutters, which is time consuming & hard work, because the Glamour Guys say "it's coming here", the these nice newcomers wait 2-4 days and uninstall them...takes about 4-6 times of looking pretty stupid before they get sensible. Mine are push button, electronic and take a total of roughly 30 minutes to prepare. AND I tune out tv/radio and plot the course of these things by radar...although some are Hugo Huge, most Hurricanes are actually quite small say in diameter, with only the serious affects (wind/water surge) on the noon to three oclock quadrent (counter clockwise spin), so when Hugo had the eye hit Charleston Harbour, 1-10 nautical miles north (McClellanville)was hard hit with 140+mph winds & 18-20 foot tidal surge, but 1-10 miles south of Charleston (Kiawah) had some limbs down and light rain, amidst 60-70mph gusts & a very low tide.
Also, when Lenny hit SBH many years ago at a Cat 5, it hit from the west (shell beach-that's where the shells went while the goats disappeared at Columbier) and we sought eastern/behind mountain shelter at the villa & while very scared, were very safe indeed...but hungry after it sat there for like 42 hours.
I don't play games with them and respect them, but I hate glamorization and dramatization that video & sound have brought us. It doesn't help matters...actually hurts I think.
A minor understanding, some radar or access and a little common sense can save your life in a Hurricane, but TV has never done anything to help in my opinion...even get people out of FL in time or New Orleans for crying out loud. K was huge too, and NO should have been evacuated 2 days earlier in its low lying state...if I knew that, why didn't everyone else?
Sorry for all this, its a sad point with me...with Lenny, 2 guys lost their life trying to outrun it in a sailboat after I and many others pleaded with them not to leave Gustavia...they had watched all the panic on a TV in Gustavia that occured the day before in Puerto Rico.
ric
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