Video of Michael coming ashore at Mexico Beach. Horrifying!

[charlyvi]

[Honeycombe8]

1. omg. It's like a monster approaching.

The stuff that nightmares are made of. You don't fool around with Mother Nature. She takes no prisoners.

[DemocracyMouse]

11. That "monster" is God's wrath against Trump, evangelicals...

...white supremacists, climate change deniers, and the greedy billionaires that manipulate them all.

[7962]

15. I dont think the storm picked who lost property based on their votes. Nature doesnt discriminate.

If thats the case, then was Sandy Gods wrath against liberal Northerners??

[Honeycombe8]

30. Well, if Pat Robertson can say that Katrina was punishment against the liberal sinners...

then I guess we can say that these hurricanes the last two years are punishment for Trumpers, who are unrepentant sinners.

[czarjak]

40. Uhmmmmm...

NO!

[RussBLib]

46. that is some

bullshit

god is a delusion, and no delusion is going to cause destruction like that.

We have to fight this kind of magical thinking, not encourage it.

[DemocracyMouse]

47. People, it was sarcasm.

[RussBLib]

48. ok, good

it was written with a "straight face" making it hard to tell.

I know there are many liberals/Democrats who still believe in god. I don't understand it but I know its true.

[PearliePoo2]

2. How the hell did the GoPro camera not get blown or washed away??

Amazing and SO frightening!

[charlyvi]

4. Doesn't seem possible, does it.

When the folks say leave, LEAVE if at all possible.

[PearliePoo2]

7. I'm wondering if he put the camera in a metal box and bolted it to a sturdy steel post of some kind?

That background noise could be the rain pinging and beating the shit out the metal enclosure housing the camera.
I'm just guessing.

[charlyvi]

8. It would have had to be enclosed in something.

The camera wasn't even wobbling that much.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Someone on my weather forum found his twitter account

and one of the tweets shows the type of box he had his various cameras in (he had something like 9 cameras setup - 6 livestream and 3 GoPros for recording per a tweet excerpted below this) -

Link to tweet

TEXT

Mark Sudduth
✔
@hurricanetrack

Cam 1 set up in Cedar Key - if you’ve got our app,Hurricane Impact, check it out now.
12:50 PM - Oct 9, 2018

Further down in the replies you will find this note -

Link to tweet

TEXT
SteelReaperJK @SteelReaperJK
· Oct 9, 2018
Replying to @hurricanetrack

How many cameras are going up?

Mark Sudduth
✔
@hurricanetrack

6 live 3 GoPro to record
1:46 PM - Oct 9, 2018

In this particular case in Mexico Beach, if you look on Google Street View at the Exxon station where he placed the camera, there was a tall, very thick light pole with a halogen spotlight at the top that was located at the edge of the station property and I expect that is where he bolted the camera box. You can copy/paste this link into a browser to see what the area looked like (at least as of the 2015 image) where he stationed the camera (DU doesn't form the link correctly but copy/paste should work) -

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9362578,-85.4015069,3a,75y,322.97h,90.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sk3jnmBxJlWuhLlJqGmTKEw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[Leith]

5. I Wondered How the Gas Station Sign Stayed Up

Those and the awnings over the pumps are usually the first things to fly away.

[Marthe48]

24. Maybe Jim Cantore was holding it :)

n/t

[pnwest]

28. Hahaa!!!!!

[montana_hazeleyes]

33. LOL!

[Leith]

3. I Google Mapped the Scene

as it was before. The address is the 700 block of US-98 (if you want to see it) and it looked lovely.

I don't know what was making the non-rain & wind noise, but it sounded like an angry rutting pig.

[charlyvi]

6. OK, I will. Thanks. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

12. I saw the video posted on my weather forum this morning and mapped it

That Exxon is across the street and down a little from a restaurant called "Toucans" that was completely obliterated (it's the building in the center of the video at the beginning getting ripped apart). It's just sad.

[3Hotdogs]

18. I have two Toucan's T shirts from a visit 8 years ago. There was a live Toucan on premises.

I wonder who took care of it?

[BumRushDaShow]

31. I expect that they took it when the area was under an evacuation

Here is a Google streetview of the place (DU doesn't link it correctly but you can copy/paste into the browser) -

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9365336,-85.4018302,3a,75y,267.9h,74.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sE9kdKjZ_tg4vsVapeWtVqw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

That really looked like a cool place and I am so sorry to see it destroyed. I hope they rebuild.

[orangecrush]

10. No words

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Hours and hours of a hurricane s noise is maddening.

That video really captured the power of a Cat. 4 wind.

[charlyvi]

16. I agree. Absolutely terrorizing. n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. People just don't understand how incredibly destructive

a hurricane can be. They think they can somehow "hunker down" and be quite safe, as if it's only a little bit worse than a typical summer thunderstorm.

I have never really been in a hurricane because I've never lived very close to the ocean. I've experienced the remnants far inland, and sometimes even that can be worrisome.

[Pepsidog]

17. I first thought how bad could it be? I sure was wrong. That is an incredible video

[3Hotdogs]

19. What was the time frame of the video?

[charlyvi]

21. Looks like they used individual frames from the beginning

through to the end.

[peacebuzzard]

20. Incredible document. God bless anyone who hunkered down

Read a post about a lady camping in a bathroom with 2 dogs. I hope they survived.
The casualty numbers will keep on rising I presume, as they sift through this

[charlyvi]

22. Not to mention the folks taken out to sea

when the storm surge retreated.

[peacebuzzard]

23. Oh no, the retreating tsunami,

I suppose some will disappear forever

[Marthe48]

25. Awe-inspiring video

I heard people who stayed put during hurricanes that the noise was horrible and non-stop.

[Demovictory9]

26. Omg

[byronius]

27. I went through hurricane Betsy on the eighth floor of an apartment building.

I was five. All the windows blew out and every floor of the building became a river. Some men tried to block off the hallway windowframe with a mattress and were sucked out, never to be seen again. The stairwells were gushing waterfalls.

It was unending. Catastrophic. Traumatizing.

In the aftermath my father and I walked around and climbed over all the massive trees that had blown over. Never smelled air like that, ozone tang and tree heart wood.

This video kind of triggered me, sorry.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

29. Shows the purple

Near the end. Heard about it but wow. Lavender glow!

[BumRushDaShow]

32. Here are some tweets from the guy who did the video

Link to tweet

TEXT

I’ve watched all of my GoPro video from Mexico Beach and I have to say, I’m at a loss for words to describe it. There are things happening that I just don’t understand. There are moments when the surge looks like it’s being injected by jet engine - yet, very few waves really.

Mark Sudduth
✔
@hurricanetrack

The wind is so extreme that there are several minutes when the air is filled with small pieces of debris, literal shrapnel, pelting the protective case that the GoPro was inside of. Need to figure out if we can use photogrammetry to determine velocity.
8:16 PM - Oct 12, 2018

Link to tweet

TEXT
Mark Sudduth
✔
@hurricanetrack
· 23h
Replying to @hurricanetrack

The wind is so extreme that there are several minutes when the air is filled with small pieces of debris, literal shrapnel, pelting the protective case that the GoPro was inside of. Need to figure out if we can use photogrammetry to determine velocity.

Mark Sudduth
✔
@hurricanetrack

The eyewall turned on like a light switch - even in Charley it wasn’t that sudden and intense.

There is a ton of science to be extracted from the video - no donor about it.
8:16 PM - Oct 12, 2018

[Cha]

36. Thank You for those, BRDS!

[BumRushDaShow]

44. Hey Cha

This hurricane was like an area experiencing an EF2/EF3 tornado that was dozens of miles wide and continued for hundreds of miles for several days, but with ocean and river flooding included! It's so sad.

[Cha]

35. Mahalo, charlyvi

Absolutely Stunning!

[Totally Tunsie]

37. When land gets in the way of nature...Stunning!

Nothing in Michael's path stood a chance.

[lovemydogs]

38. With this storm hitting Mexico Beach I keep thinking Galveston 1900

[rwsanders]

39. Does anyone know how the Gulf World Marine Aquarium in Panama City faired?

My wife and I visited years ago, and we were really charmed by a rough-toothed dolphin named Ivan.
The website shows Halloween activities, but I'm suspecting those were on a timer and set to go live.
https://gulfworldmarinepark.com/

[YOHABLO]

41. Why do people stay? It's just plain stupidity. No matter what it takes .. get the hell out.

[littlemissmartypants]

42. I can only speak to the question of 'why' for those I have

Talked to, who stayed during Florence. Money. No gas or accommodations money. There also seems to be a contingent that believe looters are going after their stuff. The most frequent answer was no money to go anywhere far enough away to even sleep in the car. The roads were blocked for days, too. Many people who did leave couldn't get back for more than a week afterwards. I don't know many people who have saved enough to get them through one day of missed work much less 6-7 days in a hotel. Of those that left, many were fired from their jobs. People are poor and getting poorer. Many had no insurance either, which depending on the carrier, will pay for evacuation, if your governor declared a state of emergency. Thousands of people are now being evicted from their apartments. Some with less than a day to get out. So whether they stayed or not, they're being forced to leave now.

Good question, YOHABLO.

♡lmsp

[catbyte]

43. I'm surprised the storm surge was so low. The eye was almost over Mexico Beach &

they were in the worst quadrant of the storm. Still, it was horrific enough. The eyewall coming ashore was stunning. That was some tough camera, although the salt water took its toll at the end.

[ouija]

45. Obviously

Moving forward as these storms increase, there are going to be large parts of US coastlines that are going to be uninhabitable. Insurance companies will not be able to exist if they keep paying these expenditures every year. Ironic they are red states how never believed in climate change.