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Hurricane Floyd
7 - 17
September,
1999 NHC/TPC
Hurricane Floyd
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Floyd 1999
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Our Hurricane Floyd chase is what you would call "nothing went right"
type of chase. First off we got a late start to our target area (
Carolina's) due to us having to board up our own homes with the
possible threat from Floyd in West Palm Beach, Florida. Once we were
all set, we were delayed once again by a CNN interview we did for the
"Talk Back Live" show. The show producers had us on standby during
the whole show via cell phone when we were along the coast of northern
Palm Beach, County. By late that afternoon we were on our way north
up the Florida east coast. (Keep in mind there were already active
hurricane warnings from S. FL to GA) We got to Melbourne, Florida that
evening and setup camp for a few hours waiting for Floyd to pass us up
off the coast about 65 miles to the east.
That night brought a few "feeder bands" ashore with 45-50mph tropical
storm force winds. Local Melbourne, FL police were so happy to see us,
they never left our sides for about 2 hours. They were so scared from
reports that the Cat 4 hurricane could come ashore at our location. One
good feeder band came ashore creating a power flash party all over the
Melbourne Beach area. We shot some footage of the down tree's and
power poles.
Then after things calmed down a little, we setup and did one of our live
internet radio feeds back to Ft. Lauderdale, FL (The Weather
Information Network). After we completed that, we got some current
recon data and satellite pictures and felt we needed to start heading
north once again. We headed back to the west to take I-95 north up
the coast, and make up some time. After 45 minutes on the interstate
we found ourselfs needing some gas and planned on stopping at the
next exit 25 miles up the highway. NOPE! No gas was to be found! This
was not due to people filling up before the storm, no no, it was due to
none of the stations were open. Hurricane warnings issued early that
evening had gas stations closing up before 10pm and this happened
all the way up the coast. We were stuck! Stuck with only a little fuel left
and all gas stations closes everywhere.
After chatting with a State Trooper we learned everything was closed up
to Jacksonville, FL and back south to Jupiter, FL. So we knew this was
the end of the chase, so we setup camp in a truck rest stop on I-95 in
the woods and slept to the tropical storm winds pushing the truck
back-and-forth. By morning our warnings were dropped as Hurricane
Floyd took aim on the Carolina's, and we knew there was no getting to
the target area now before landfall. Gased up the truck and headed
home...
Have to love truck stops in 50mph winds!!! - Jeff Gammons / David
Cornwell :-)
Jeff Gammons
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