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Skillzzz9 · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject:

Not even a dream yet. (Born in 1974)
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

Moving from Quantico Virgina to Hawaii, going into the 10th grade. Cool

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Eightball Express · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject:

Two years old and living in Victoria. No clue as to what was going on.
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OsoJo · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject: Celia

in Port A holding the door from blowing in....

GoinCoastal · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject:

11 yo and watching it pour in Victoria. I remember it well. I also remember driving from Victoria to CC through Rockport a couple of days later and looking at all the damage & destruction. I remember the steel tank farm across the road from the carbon black plant had several tanks floated across Hwy 35 all the way back to the tree line.

The Trash Heap · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:32 pm Post subject:

In those days, the NWS Hurricane Forecast Center was in Galveston, and as usual it predicted Celia was bound for Galveston. Consequently, the TAMU Ft. Crockett campus closed, so I left my dorm and headed home to CC. Woke up the next morning to find Celia's path had changed.

We did pretty well at my house. Aside from losing a tree, the only damaged sustained to our property occurred when the roof flew off the front porch on the house behind ours, sailed over that house and slammed into the back of our garage. Spent the next few days foraging for ice as far away as Bishop, where they still had power to freeze it.
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FB PHIL · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 455

I wasn't here for Celia, but afew yrs later I was on Guam for this event and don't want to go thru that again. We had measured gusts to 180 kts.

[edit] Super Typhoon Pamela
Category 4 super typhoon (SSHS)

Duration May 14 – May 26
Intensity 240 km/h (150 mph) (1-min), 921 hPa (mbar)
The near equatorial trough produced a tropical depression on May 14 north of Chuuk. It moved southwestward, becoming a tropical storm on the 15th. Pamela slowly looped to the northwest, and reached typhoon status on the 16th. On the 18th and 19th, Pamela rapidly intensified to a 150 mph (240 km/h) super typhoon, and slowly weakened as it continued its northwest movement. On May 21 the typhoon crossed Guam with sustained winds of 140 mph (230 km/h). After slowly crossing the island, Pamela turned to the north, and weakened until becoming extratropical on the 26th. Pamela was the strongest typhoon to hit Guam since Super Typhoon Karen in 1962. Though Karen was much stronger, Pamela's slow crossing caused much more damage, amounting to $500 million (1976 USD, $1.7 billion 2005 USD). Well-executed warnings allowed for only one death in Guam. Before Typhoon Pamela hit Guam, ten people died in a landslide in Truk (Chuuk) from its heavy rains.

BlueWaveEd · Horse Mullet Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 132

I was sitting in the dining room drinking beer and playing poker with Mom and her boyfriend. We watched trees fall, some roofs go. Power lines go down, etc. Only damage to our house was some gravel off the roof.

Remember scrounging for ice and gas. electric out for almost 2 weeks. Did not have much A/C before the storm so we did not miss it too much.

I was out working after the storm and remember well the destruction. Some areas looked like a bomb went off and others barely touched.

Have not stayed in one since then. Probably will not ever again either.

REEL BEAST · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject:

Riding it out in Taft, TX. I was only eight years old and remember it well and I dont remember anything else to speak of before high school. The first boat I ever remember disappeared, we found it across town in someone else's home.
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CopanoCruisin · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject:

I was on vacation in wonderful Big D. Made it home late the next night, well sort of, where home used to be. Celia was not nice to our trailer in Ingleside. I live on a cot in back of the fire station for the next couple of months. WHoa!!!!! I don't ever want to go through that again. Man, was it ever hot after Celia. It did start a long dedication to the volunteer fire service.

skunked · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:51 pm Post subject:

I wasn't done cooking yet. I was about 8 months with a month to go in the womb.

bk005 · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:29 pm Post subject:

No where.

I do remeber my dad talking about it. He worked for the rairoad, and said they took tons of cars of gravel up here rebuilding the tracks. Said there was so much water when the track gangs were working in the flooded areas there were 2 lookouts with rifles just shooting snakes.

Dalyn V. · Horse Mullet Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 121

We lost a good man that day he own a shrimp boat & stand at Palm harbor he took his boat out to ride out the storm found him three days later. Can't remember but it wasn't long after the storm we went down to check out the tailor it was gone and one of the gas stations just a slab. A lot of good and hard working people lost a lot that day.

cardiyak · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject:

Sitting in the Seraton Inn on Shoreline waiting for the next window to blow in, yep, blow in. It was either that or the house in Port A.