Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones thread

Emanuel Theodorus

Emanuel Theodorus

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With Hurricane Ida currently barrelling in Southeast Louisiana, I was wondering how many of Zoochatters have experienced Hurricanes, Typhoons, or Cyclones. Living in Indonesia (more specifically in Banten, Western Java) means I have never really experienced a tropical cyclone, although I remembered Cyclone Seroja in 2021 did a hefty amount of damage to Nusa Tenggara.
 
There's a few typhoon every year in Hong Kong, and mostly it won't do too much damage because we got nice infrastructure and typhoon warning. However sometimes if the typhoon is too strong it can produce quite a lot of damage. For example in 2018, typhoon Mangkhut lead to serious flooding and falling trees in a lot of area, and of course a lot infrastructure and economic loss.

When a typhoon come I just stayed at home. We got typhoon signal 1,3,8,9 and 10, when the signal is 8 or higher school and work are suspended. So typhoon come i'll more likely to be safe.
 
aardvark250 said:
There's a few typhoon every year in Hong Kong, and mostly it won't do too much damage because we got nice infrastructure and typhoon warning. However sometimes if the typhoon is too strong it can produce quite a lot of damage. For example in 2018, typhoon Mangkhut lead to serious flooding and falling trees in a lot of area, and of course a lot infrastructure and economic loss.

When a typhoon come I just stayed at home. We got typhoon signal 1,3,8,9 and 10, when the signal is 8 or higher school and work are suspended. So typhoon come i'll more likely to be safe.
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So you have been through Hato, Rammasun, and Vicente as well?
 
Here in South Central, Mississippi we generally only get the high winds and prolonged power outages from the hurricanes. Luckily for us Ida was weaker than forecasted and actually ended up with just a few trees down in our area and short term power outages this go around, spin up tornadoes around the outer rings of circulation are probably what hit us the hardest.
 
New Yorker here! I personally have Hurricanes Sandy, Isaias, Elsa (I interned in Tampa), and the remnants of Ida under my belt.

Sandy was the worst I went through, even thought she was downgraded to a tropical storm when she reached me. We lost power for at least a week. My sister and I went to stay at our grandparents' house the next county over when they got power before we did.

I believe Isaias was also downgraded to a tropical storm when he arrived. I worked during the height of it at my boss' house (I work for a business that does animal shows and petting zoos for parties, and the reptiles etc. live at his house). The power went out near the end of the workday, but every animal was alright. At my house, we lost power for the whole day. My sister and I lived at our grandmother's house elsewhere in town because she had power before we did. We got power back right about 24 hours after it was lost.

I experienced Elsa during my internship in Tampa. We interns were instructed not to come to work as only the keepers would be there feed and clean as necessary. I accidently didn't get the memo, however, and my boss politely told me to go home. The storm didn't hit until that evening. The power went out briefly, but not even for a minute.

The remnants of Ida hit me just last night. Heavy rain, loud thunder, and lightning.
 
I have never experienced any tropical Cyclone. We don´t know that here.

We do get floods after "normal" summer rains or after snow melts quickly at the end of winter. We have warning system and dams. Fatalities are usually low/nonexistent. But sometimes it gets hefty. Big flood in August 2002 put Prague under 7 meters of water, caused damage to 1/3 of whole country and had 17 victims.

We also get windstorms from Atlantic ocean occasionally. They would fall trees and cut power lines. Windstorm Kyrill in 2007 has windspeed of 216 km/h.

We get spells of dry super cold Arctic air from Siberia sometimes. It can cause damage to fruit trees and water pipes in ground, but nothing major.

Very seldom, we get snow blizzard. In the night between 31st Dec 1978 and 1st Jan 1979, one went over Europe and killed large percentage of forests in NW of my country (and some people and many wild animals including birds). The days before we had warm wind with rain that melted all snow and caused floods, temperature was 8-10 Celsius above freezing. On Silvester evening, temperature started to fall quickly and before sunrise it reached -20/-30 Celsius under freezing point, wind was 160 km/h and we got lots of new snow. Everything that was wet from rain or flood froze instantly, Thick layers of ice felled power lines, broke trees, wooden structures got cracks, ice covered roads, coal stockpiles turned into stone, fuel in car tanks built ice crystals and killed motors, many animals on pastures died. Freeze lasted for 1 month. Chaos ensued.
 
RandomConservationist said:
Here in South Central, Mississippi we generally only get the high winds and prolonged power outages from the hurricanes. Luckily for us Ida was weaker than forecasted and actually ended up with just a few trees down in our area and short term power outages this go around, spin up tornadoes around the outer rings of circulation are probably what hit us the hardest.
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Any hurricanes you've experienced before Ida? I think Zeta and Nate would be a likely candidate.
 
Emanuel Theodorus said:
Any hurricanes you've experienced before Ida? I think Zeta and Nate would be a likely candidate.
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I've sheltered through every hurricane to come through our area since 2006, I couldn't really tell you who I've thought the worst to be, hurricanes are hurricanes and they're rarely as bad as forecasted for us, but it's still not a fun experience.
 
Living part of my life in and around New York City I have been through many hurricanes but haven't had the terrible experiences many have:
1950s - Hazel, Carol, Edna, Connie, Flossie, Grace
1960s - Donna, Esther, Daisy, Gladys, Gerda
1980s - Gloria
1990s - Dennis, Floyd
2000s - Isabelle, Alex
2010s - Irene, Sandy,
2020s - Isaias, Henri, Ida
At our house we had about 3.5" of rain in a few hours during Henri followed shortly by Ida who dumped 5.75" in a few hours
(Thanks to Wikipedia for jogging my memory)
 
Yes. I lost power during Hurricane Irene and Super Storm Sandy. We also got the remnants of Elsa, but basically just rain at that point. Believe it or not, I was actually at my local zoo during Elsa. Being in New England, the more common type of inclement weather we get is blizzards and noreasters, although tropical storms or hurricanes do come through every few years. We were supposed to get directly hit with Hurricane Henri this year, but the weathermen got it wrong and it went west.
 
Update: winds possibly caused by remnants of Tropical Cyclone Paddy affected Java, particularly in Jakarta where the winds are unusually strong, but no hefty damage.
 
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