On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:57:11 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
About three years ago, my wife and I drove through Central Alabama on
our way back home after a visit to friends in New Orleans. I was
amazed that damage from Hurricane Camille (sp?) was still evident
almost forty years after.

On the other hand, I was in Belize last year on a bone fishing trip
and you'd never know a hurricane went throuh there six months
earlier.

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Along the main drag (Rt 41) in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda there
are modern reinforced concrete buildings with walls caved in. You can
imagine how the mobile home parks and wood frame buildings fared.
Fifteen miles inland on I-75 there is a ten mile stretch where
virtually every sign and light pole is blown down. That's the same
area where 5 consecutive 18 wheelers were blown over on their side
during the storm.

As a little engineering excercise I calculated what the side load on
my trawler would be in an 80 knot wind. Depending on the assumptions
it works out to be about 100,000 pounds, which is roughly the same
force that the capsized trucks encountered.

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:28:27 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:57:11 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
About three years ago, my wife and I drove through Central Alabama on
our way back home after a visit to friends in New Orleans. I was
amazed that damage from Hurricane Camille (sp?) was still evident
almost forty years after.

On the other hand, I was in Belize last year on a bone fishing trip
and you'd never know a hurricane went throuh there six months
earlier.

========================================

Along the main drag (Rt 41) in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda there
are modern reinforced concrete buildings with walls caved in. You can
imagine how the mobile home parks and wood frame buildings fared.
Fifteen miles inland on I-75 there is a ten mile stretch where
virtually every sign and light pole is blown down. That's the same
area where 5 consecutive 18 wheelers were blown over on their side
during the storm.

As a little engineering excercise I calculated what the side load on
my trawler would be in an 80 knot wind. Depending on the assumptions
it works out to be about 100,000 pounds, which is roughly the same
force that the capsized trucks encountered.

That's one wind that I wouldn't want to be caught in. Heck, even a
sailboat would plane in something like that ;-)

Dave