At This Very Hour

September 16, 2005, 2:44 pm
Posted by J.B. Elliott in Tropical Weather
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At this very hour exactly one year ago, Hurricane Ivan was creating havoc in the Birmingham area:

* He was dumping tons of rain, 8.65 inches in Vestavia Hills

* Water rescues underway despite the extremely dangerous coditions

* Numerous trees were crashing to the ground.

* Howling winds well over 50 mph and probably over 65 mph on the ridges around the area, such as Red Mountain and Shades Mountian

* Wall to wall coverage continued on ABC 33/40 anchored by James Spann, John Oldshue and the news anchors

* I was in the 33/40 weather office broadcasting "wall-to-wall" on WBHK, WBHJ and WAGG

You have any menories you want to share? How was your drive home? How long without power? Any damage to your place?

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Posted by  
on September 16, 2005, 4:19 pm
we live in blountsville,and lost three trees(2 sweet gums and a pine)during ivan.did'nt get the two dead trees we wanted to fall-right next to the ones that did.same with katrina,three pines-but still not the dead ones.after 2 of these guys guess i better call the tree people.really love your molly stories.we have a chihuahua(sp)that gets the royal treatment too!

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Posted by Paul  
on September 16, 2005, 5:38 pm
Besides from the days without power and the trees down around the house,I burned all of the hair off my arms and singed my eyebrows trying to grill burgers in 50mph winds,I opened my small propane grill to flip the burgers and a vortex of flame came up and got me!

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Posted by  
on September 16, 2005, 8:42 pm
I can remember the people being rescued from those apartments near 5 Mile Creek. I recall someone saying it (water) just came all at once.

Wayne


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Posted by  
on September 16, 2005, 8:46 pm
Almost forgot. We did lose power for about 3 or 4 hrs. Guess we did get lucky on that. Don't know how. I live so close to the Blount/Jefferson Cnty Line that every time sever weather happens, whether it comes from the North - Northwest or South it will usually get us. Especially if they name off places like Warrior, Palmerdale and Remlap. I'm in Trafford and we usually get the dangerous lightning before anything. :(


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Posted by  
on September 16, 2005, 8:52 pm
Opps.. Sorry, last comment about this, but when Ivan came thru or at least the strongest part of it (winds and heavy rain in my area (Trafford). We abandoned our Mobile home to our Late Grandmothers house and in the back of her yard is woods and a drop off to the Warrior Creek and a lot of trees went down that day. Luckly it was down far enough the only thing that we heard was trees hitting the wather, but I it almost seemed like a small twister was parrelling the river eventhough there was no Tornado. It was in fact scary none-the-less.
The trees we could see did look twisted, but we new or at least we hoped it was just straight line winds rather than tornadic.

I couldn't believe it rained so hard, but yet it seemed like a gigantic wall of water was being dumped on the house we took shelter in.

Wayne
cobra911@bellsouth.net


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