Comments on: Sturm und drang https://habitablezone.com/2020/09/12/sturm-und-drang/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:17:27 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2020/09/12/sturm-und-drang/#comment-45419 Robert Thu, 17 Sep 2020 01:51:05 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=83939#comment-45419 They were taken by surprise by the strength of Sally as it made landfall as a cat two. Talked to my parents in Pensacola yesterday and they were complacent; according to my sister, this morning they were quite shaken. Other sister in Alabama was awakened in the wee hours by a sound like a freight train passing, and high winds tearing down fences. Brother in Pensacola is OK. Everybody lost power. One sister and parents live in a huge condo tower right on the Gulf Coast, one of those beasts marching up the coast like 200 foot tall Easter Island heads. Built after Hurricane Ivan in 2005 to the latest standards, which mandate open first (ground) floors to take wave pressure off the structure. Sally pushed up a high storm surge, flowed through the first floor gap into the parking lot, with a result my sister described as "bumper cars". Tore open storage lockers on the ground floor, and now the cars are festooned with personal possessions. Imagine trying to find your stuff mixed in with the possessions of a hundred other people. They expect the power to be out through the end of the week. That was only a Category Two. They were taken by surprise by the strength of Sally as it made landfall as a cat two. Talked to my parents in Pensacola yesterday and they were complacent; according to my sister, this morning they were quite shaken. Other sister in Alabama was awakened in the wee hours by a sound like a freight train passing, and high winds tearing down fences. Brother in Pensacola is OK. Everybody lost power.

One sister and parents live in a huge condo tower right on the Gulf Coast, one of those beasts marching up the coast like 200 foot tall Easter Island heads. Built after Hurricane Ivan in 2005 to the latest standards, which mandate open first (ground) floors to take wave pressure off the structure. Sally pushed up a high storm surge, flowed through the first floor gap into the parking lot, with a result my sister described as “bumper cars”. Tore open storage lockers on the ground floor, and now the cars are festooned with personal possessions. Imagine trying to find your stuff mixed in with the possessions of a hundred other people. They expect the power to be out through the end of the week.

That was only a Category Two.

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