Our junior DE’s family lost everything. They worked with the ncaa to setup a gofundme for the family https://www.gofundme.com/robinson-rebuild-hurricane-michael
Wife went down to help her sister and her husband at Mexico Beach. Said food trucks are there giving plates to residents and works, but making insurance people and contractors pay. Sisters place looks a lot worse in person windows blown completely out, bedroom doors ripped of hinges, insulation everywhere, water damage, and anything metal is already starting to rust. Father in law house had a random Volvo in his front yard and I heard today that when it was found it had a body in it. Wife has a good picture taken from her sisters place of the house the New York Times wrote about, with other houses around it just demolished. Will post pics tonight or tomorrow.
UN officials throwing around "worst storm to ever hit the southern hemisphere" It is a catastrophe now, and will be much worse when cholera and malaria go off.
Saw one thing that said a lot of people got decapitated by flying metal because a lot of buildings have sheet metal roofs there
Hurricane Michael was a Category 5 with sustained wind gusts of 160mph. Michael is the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States as a category 5 since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and only the fourth on record. The others are the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Michael is also the strongest hurricane landfall on record in the Florida Panhandle and only the second known category 5 landfall on the northern Gulf coast.
Last I saw looks like the track is coming right over my house and bring about 20" of rain this weekend. Not cool.
Season should be here soon, though the Atlantic looks quiet for a while. Gulf and Carribean to watch.
I've read that they are predicting the El Niño to continue through the summer and for this season to be less active. Hopefully that comes to pass.
+1 It hasn’t hit 100 at DFW yet this summer, which is pretty much unheard of for us in the tail end of July