What is it like to be inside a major hurricane?
Jun 29, 2010
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Hurricane
A major hurricane is category 3 and up.
Does the house or building really shake from the wind?
I’ve heard the wind can sound like a plane taking off. Is this true?
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3 comments
Sleeping Troll on June 29, 2010 at 11:13 pm
It is loud and scary, I don’t care who you are! Yeah right like sticking your head out the window… more like standing on the hood of a car doing 80 mph while somebody in a truck in front of you throws all kinds of debree at you, if you try to look into the storm the rain hitting your eyes is unbelievably painful and that is just a category 1 storm.
What adds to the thrill is things hitting your house and wondering what they are and if they might break through, or if the roof might leave.
Oh yeah and then the electric goes out.
And the days and possibly weeks after the storm are really miserable.
Also, what is a real thrill is if the eye passes over you everything gets real calm and quiet…
and then it starts again from the opposite direction and that is when things really start going to pieces.
david zorm on June 29, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I was in a few major hurricanes around a thousand feet above the sea level. we really didn’t know the wind speed but brick walls were falling over. The way you start to feel is as if it will never end. Sometimes it sounds like a train or a plane and then levels off. Sometimes you think you can’t stand it anymore. I saw the eye once an it is like a God child for about 20 minutes. Where I was the ground was moving and the house shaking in delirium. I was in a place in Taiwan about a 1000ft above sealevel
aniwack on June 29, 2010 at 11:13 pm
It blows. Literally.
No. It’s like sticking your head out the window going 80.