Scientists now believe Hurricane Andrew’s winds were at least 10 mph faster than previously thought – making it only the third Category 5 storm to hit United States in recorded history. Hurricane forecasters and researchers planned to announce Wednesday the change of the 1992 hurricane’s intensity, said Frank Lepore, spokesman for the National Hurricane Center…
When Frederick hit the gulf coast in September of ’79, it did so with winds that gusted to 145 miles per hour and waves surging as high as 12 feet. Damage was estimated at 2.3-billion dollars – the most on record for that time. In some cities, three out of every four buildings were destroyed….
On June 30, 1994, a tropical system formed in the Gulf of Mexico. It would be named Alberto. Alberto never reached hurricane strength, making landfall as a minimal tropical storm near Panama City. But the trouble for Americus, Georgia, was anything but minimal. Flood Victim James Mann says, “Everything was just in chaos.” What remained…
It’s difficult to look at the paths hurricanes ripped across Florida the past 150 years and not realize the state is a magnet for storms. But people do – and yawn. Fighting complacency in a place like the Tampa Bay area is a major battle for emergency officials. People forget, officials say. Or newcomers never…
It was just before midnight August 17th, 1969, when Camille arrived at George Mixons house in Henderson Point, Mississippi. “The windows exploded in the front of the house,” describes Mixon. Now Harrison Countys fire marshal, Mixon was a 22-year-old Sheriffs deputy at the time. He and his father and his younger brother were in this…