hurricane

Welcome to the Hurricanes! section. I must admit to having a slight obsession with hurricanes and tropical storms. It began in 1999 with Hurricane Floyd; since then I have kept up with these things and accumulated quite a lot of data about them.

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina passed over my area as a Category 1 hurricane. I feel fortunate, considering what happened to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi, where it hit as a strong Category 4, close to a 5. That hurricane is now considered either the worst or second-worst (to the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900) natural disaster to befall the United States. I have updated a couple of pages in this section to account for this hurricane. Katrina information is all over the Internet, including my blog. I highly doubt I will have a section about this storm. There are some painful personal memories associated with it. Basically (with no disrespect meant for the Gulf Coast), Ivan was fun for me. Katrina was not.

In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan passed over my area as a tropical storm; it had already paid its visit to the Gulf Coast of Alabama and Florida. But -- I had tracked it long before that. In a twisted way, I'd been hoping for a Category 5 hurricane this year, but hoping that it didn't hit at that intensity. And, it would seem that Ivan kept most of its Category 5 winds to itself.

At present, I believe this page will be a cross between a small scientific repository for other weather hobbyists like me, and a commentary/trivia page.

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