Cat 5 Hurricane Michael [Callaway, Florida]
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- Callaway is across the bay from Tyndall Air Force Base.
This is not a storm chaser video; it's a resident video.
We were in the western eye for about 22 minutes.
This video is excerpted from a longer video:
• Hurricane Michael, Dir...
which includes an additional 13½ minutes from Day Zero.
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My house (not the location of this video) was rendered uninhabitable and has been demolished thanks to generous donations. The bill for that was more than two months' income.
October 10, 2018. Michael was just the 4th Cat 5 landfall in US history and took less than 36 hours to grow from Cat 1.
We fell asleep thinking we faced a Category 3 hurricane the next day. Although intense, we were in a sturdy structure on high ground and decided to stay. In 15 hours, it jumped two categories (35 MPH MSW) with very rapid intensification, which surprised us.
Date Time Lat Long MSW Ps Category
10/09/18 22:00 27.1° -86.5° 125 mph 947 mb 3
10/10/18 01:00 27.7° -86.6° 130 mph 945 mb 4
10/10/18 04:00 28.3° -86.5° 140 mph 943 mb 4
10/10/18 05:00 28.6° -86.4° 140 mph 937 mb 4
10/10/18 06:00 28.8° -86.3° 140 mph 937 mb 4
10/10/18 07:00 29.0° -86.3° 145 mph 933 mb 4
10/10/18 08:00 29.1° -86.2° 145 mph 933 mb 4
10/10/18 09:00 29.3° -86.1° 145 mph 931 mb 4
10/10/18 10:00 29.4° -86.0° 145 mph 928 mb 4
10/10/18 10:30 29.5° -85.9° 150 mph 923 mb 4
10/10/18 11:00 29.6° -85.8° 150 mph 923 mb 4
10/10/18 12:00 29.9° -85.7° 150 mph 919 mb 4
10/10/18 12:30 30.0° -85.5° 160 mph 919 mb 5
The storm continued to intensify right up to interaction with land, gaining 15 MPH MSW in the final several hours. In the 24 hours before landfall, it went from Cat 2 to Cat 5.
My mother was 90 years old at the time with mobility issues; she would not be able to handle an hours-long drive too well; my car had been having problems, which made me not trust its reliability at the time, financial...the reasons for staying for up to a Cat 3 were compelling.
I get annoyed with the judgemental commenters, who, without bothering to read this description, ask why we didn't evacuate. There has been a boatload of this type over the years. I often delete their comment without reply. The same goes for the often-repeated questions about uncleared objects in the yard. Repetitive, accusatory, nauseating...it's easier to remove than to endlessly repeat my answers.
We had no electricity for 14 days and no internet for 58 days. Two months later, still no cable TV or landline telephone. Millions of trees across a 3,000-square-mile swath were destroyed, and virtually all were damaged. At least eight houses in the immediate neighborhood were damaged beyond repair.
The video was recorded with a Sony HDR-CX260V and produced using Cyberlink PowerDirector 15.
I had owned that camcorder for five years as of the time of Michael. I have since upgraded to a Sony FDR-AX33, the best camcorder I've owned. And at my age, it's probably the last camcorder I'll ever buy. I don't see a need to go beyond 4K, ever. Anyway, the AX33 is an impressive camera.
As far as PowerDirector is concerned, I bought 15; I own it; it's not cloud-based or subscription-based. Actually, I paid for 16 too, but I prefer 15. I HATE subscription-based software and, so far, have sidestepped the ridiculous fold that people are accepting as the new norm. I am perfectly content to stay with software that doesn't require a subscription to keep using it. It does what I need to do, and I don't have to pay annually to keep using it. I view subscription-based software as a complete rip-off but an absolute windfall for the providers. Sorry dudes, I don't want your crappy, cloud-based subscription stuff. I paid for your product. Once is enough!
I would find it intolerable if I had to pay a fee yearly to keep using my camcorder, and I don't see the difference here.
Oh, and I sometimes go off on a rant.
This footage is ten times better than the actual media who cover these storms
I hadn't even realized how bad Michael hit the US! This was amazing footage and so glad they are all ok.
Hard to show good footage from a cozy safe studio. The major news is obsolete to the thinking person.
Elizabeth yea it was terrifying but cool at the same time. But I’m glad everyone survived.
It’s probably because the way the media covers it is like they are doing a selfie, it’s not so much about the storm as much as it’s about the reporter in it. Is it any wonder nature keeps getting angrier and angrier with us?
Well the reason why it’s bad for others and sorry a year later is cuz that people have older stuff and like news people use older but strong stuff so nothing would get destroyed and all the footage.
The best part of this video is your cool, calm demeanor. This nation needs more like you. I wish you all the best.
Thanks! Panic never helps in an emergency.
for most people it comes with age. it's rare for kids or young people to have the same demeanor unless their parents have it too(being in the military probably helps some lol ).
@@Hy-Brasil I agree, but I'm 60 and I'm pretty well certain I would have struggled to maintain that level of composure!
I agree
It was scary for me hearing debris hit the house and i couldnt even see out of my windows the whole house was shaking doing lots of praying in my hallway!!!
Who else was “rooting” for the magnolia tree?
Me for sure! Magnolia's are near and dear to my heart as I mentioned to him above in my comments. Something about those trees!
@@ElizabethMac Those Magnolia trees are impressive and beautiful, they smell wonderful as well!
I want a relationship as strong as that magnolia tree
Same here
Which one is the magnolia
me too
Stupid comment stolen from other videos years ago.
@@jamesspann4541 Are you that miserable to point that out? Sure I heard it about other subjects. That's what makes it so funny. Get a sense of humor
**want to turn off computer because of hurricane**
Windows: _It is update, my dude_
Skwowwkwkwmwmwkkwowow
Windows: _it is update, my dude_
*tries to turn off computer in an emergency situation*
Windows: You think you can easily get away, huh?
LMAO!
Person: "Imma turnin' off the computer."
Microsoft Windows: "... how about, no?"
That noise will forever be the worse sound you can imagine. The roar for hours. Houses creaking from pressure. That was definitely a hard one to ride out. Lost everything trees half the house and even now fixing to be 3 year anniversary of this behemoth. A lot of people are still rebuilding. Or have just moved on. We are hour northeast of you. Makes your really appreciate the power Mother Nature can throw at you. But I gotta say. This dude did a great job filming and awesome composure. 10/10/18 forever ❤️❤️
I live in Puerto Rico. Lived a similar experience with hurricane Maria. No electricity for 7 months, no water for a month and the signal will never be as good as before. Glad you’re safe and thank you for this footage, nature is wild. ❤️❤️
This may be the best home made hurricane video, that I have seen. Not annoying. Just a good, clean video.
😮😊uu
Whenever I see these videos I cant help but wonder how people experienced these hurricanes 300-400 years ago.
sir, I wish you and your mother a long life. You stayed in your house till the end and captured the whole hurricane. Thank you for the video. Greetings from Azerbaijan
Gotta appreciate this guy’s zen. Watching his property being ripped to shreds, and having the wisdom to know there’s nothing he can do about it so he might as well just stay calm.
He is so calm because he is at his mothers house not his. He is having fun over a boring day eating cookies with his mother. Probable has good insurance too
I love his calm demeanor. This is a great video.
William Early i was freaking out in St Andrews you couldnt see anything at all it was like being in a pressure washer!
Lost my house in this. Eye went over my home (I live in Callaway, Panama City Fl) and we had to evacuate in the middle of it to my neighbors house. This was due to a major gas leak and our home began to flood from the torn up roof and a gauge that was on the roof was completely torn off. I regret not giving my parents more reason to have us evacuate because of how much traumatic stress I have from it.
It takes a big toll knowing where you grew up and are still growing up(I just got my learners permit) has been destroyed.
"Trying to do an emergency shut down... Windows decided to do an update." 😂
Oh yes, why not, of course!
@@didibolter9362 during the most definitely best possible time
Microsoft sucks
Unbelievable!!! I live in Hamburg /Germany. We can't imagine, how powerful those hurricanes can be. God bless you all. Greetings and kisses from Germany.
I've been threw some terrifying hurricane's greetings from the United States
Uk houses made of brick nice to meet you
@@SekFuny So, you think the UK owns the market on brick homes? That's utterly bizarre, especially when you consider this video was recorded in a BRICK HOME in Florida, USA.
Hmm I have only been through 1 hurricane when it was a tropical depression (Ida) from Pa
I’m also in Florida, on the east coast. My heart broke for your guys that had to face the wrath of Michael. You got some incredible footage and remained so calm throughout the ordeal. I’m so sorry that you went through that but glad that you and your loved ones made it out safely. So sad about that beautiful magnolia tree. I hope that this is the last hurricane that you must face and your home, yard and vehicle have been repaired. Also, as for the color of the sky, it’s some kind of weather phenomenon. I went through Irma and Matthew and saw that after the storm the sky turned this incredible purple/ violet color. Sending prayers and well-wishes to you and your family. Stay safe!
Thanks for watching and for your thoughts.
From my point of view, the tree loss is the worst after effect. The houses will be repaired or rebuilt. That will take time, and its sad that so many people (nearly everyone) had damage. But, you can't rebuilt the trees, that will take many years.
We've had our roof repaired, including broken rafters. But there's still work to be done inside. A large area of the ceiling is water damaged. I'm still picking up small debris in the yard.
My car was more damaged than I realized on Day 0. The insurance company totaled it. I've replaced it with another smart with half the mileage. Same colors, but it's not a cabrio.
Interesting about the sky after the storm. I'm pretty seriously color deficient and couldn't name the color. I just knew it wasn't normal.
What's really amazing is that this man is so relaxed and calm in the face of utter destruction!
I honestly appreciated this video more than any storm chaser's footage. I can better relate with somebody who had to go through this hell of a storm because he lived in its path, rather than with a chaser dude craving for a footage. The sheer size of the devastation is impressive and I hope you'll manage to return to your "normal" life as soon as possible. Here in Italy we don't have storms of this magnitude, but earthquakes are a constant concern. I have seen many friends suffering from the consequences of an earthquake and having to patch up their homes and life in the aftermath. That's really sad. I wish you good luck!
Today, my thoughts are for the victims of the historic tornados that happened overnight. Horrible destruction and casualties.
Was this the kentucky tornado? That was a horrible storm. Powerful and long tracked. It's like it was designed to kill. Tornadoes hit cities more often than you'd think. So this will probably happen again soon enough. And it might happen to me.
It's crazy that this is the only planet that has life on it but it's so hostile to everything living. I guess clouds get real angry sometimes
@@13_cmi I was posting about the December 10-11, 2021 outbreak. Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_December_10%E2%80%9311,_2021
Earth might be the only planet with life in our solar system, but certainly not in the Universe. We evolved here, any other body in our solar system would mean nearly instant death to an unprotected human.
@@Vector_Ze yeah that’s the outbreak that had the awful tornado in Kentucky. It was something like 40 people in one town that died. And most of the deaths were in Kentucky. That really sucks.
@@Vector_Ze no. About people were killed in mayfield I guess. And debris was sent 30,000 feet up? That’s insane. That tornado wasn’t even as powerful as they can get. I don’t even know if an ef5 with almost 300mph winds could do something like that. It might’ve been the perfect amount of power for destruction and flinging debris. That’s almost plane level.
I'm a life-long Florida residential, and as such, I have rode through no less than a dozen storms. One thing your video points out, and few others do, is how LOUD hurricanes can be. You're in a house with no power, just like every other house around you for blocks, and the only thing you can hear is the wind howling and debris flying outside. It is scary as hell. Keep in mind, these hurricanes last for HOURS! I don't care how calm you may think you are, it is unnerving to hear the POWER of a Category 4 hurricane just outside your front door.
Thanks for the observations.
Even though Michael's areal coverage wasn't large by hurricane standards, it left a track of destruction more than 50-miles wide. Well beyond a few blocks of our neighborhood, naturally. We knew this was true in real time as the storm closed in. That is awesome to think about, even as it's occurring.
Yeah, it was loud! So loud, in fact, that we didn't even hear the sound of a neighbor's roof being strewn through the whole block. There was just so much sound competing with what would be a frightening sound otherwise.
Your calm voice through the mayhem…amazing! Love this channels content.
🐷🐷🐷💩💩
Whoever made that white table made a sturdy one
I always find it fascinating that after all the destruction, there is such a beautiful sky. Glad you're both safe.
This video's view count has just exceeded the population of Bay County, Florida.
Well TH-cam has recommended it - and i live in Athens Greece, just imagine that. Scary and impressive though. I remember i watched the event of Hurricane Michael hitting Florida half across the world through TH-cam. Sitting at night in the comfort of my room and thinking about the hell all these people must be going through this menace.
Ain't algorithms today super smart or what?
PS: i 'm very sorry for all the damage to your property and town, hope you are all right by now...
@@manpetepetrop8034
Consider this: While you, and other people around the world, were watching coverage on TV, TH-cam, and elsewhere...here, our 6-week news blackout had just begun. For the first week, we had local radio providing important information on the situation. But, only local information. We didn't hear about the horrible California wildfire until LONG after the fact, as an example.
Amazingly, the local radio stations went back to programming as usual after only 7-days, leaving us totally in the dark! That still pisses me off!
Six weeks after the storm, I finally bought an over-the-air TV antenna and the blackout ended. Several weeks after that we finally had internet and cable TV restored.
Two "good" things about the storm. For a week afterward, the night sky was free of light pollution due to there being no electric power for miles around, the Milky Way was actually visible. After a week, the light pollution began to return as distant lights started returning. Our power was out for 14-days.
And, for a few weeks, Donald Trump rarely crossed my mind. Two positives in a disaster area.
One weird thing about this video's view count. It was published on December 8th, and after 74-days It only had 258 views. That's when the hockey stick started forming.
Thank you for watching and commenting.
@@Vector_Ze
Jesus Christ... my mind can't even process the shitstorm that you people went through. It 's outrageous that your government (both state and federal), did nothing to help you out in this time of dire need. As for the news outlets (radio and Tv), i wouldn't expect any better : repairs are underway, and now sports...
As for the Orange Idiot in the white house, hell yeah, that was a good de-toxing for a few weeks i guess. PS: Being a seafarer myself i have seen several times the milky way and the glorious spectacle of a clear night sky... nothing compares to that. You 're welcome, best wishes...
Glad this video blew up, honestly. Really shows the kind of damage a storm of this capacity can harvest, which is something that's always intrigued me.
I live in Central Florida and from the couple hurricanes I've been in after moving down here, it's never been as hectic as this cat-4 monster. Glad you guys pulled through!
These folks are relatively calm but I'm telling you it is scary riding out a hurricane like this. My wife and I rode one out in Biloxi MS that was much weaker than Michael. This was a fast moving storm and they are all lucky it didn't park itself for 8 or 10 hours. There would have been NOTHING left. The power was off right away when we rode it out and it was nighttime. We had lanterns and flashlights of course but it was nerve racking. Rain blew into the attic from every vent and opening and soaked the ceilings. I sat there and watched sheetrock fall off the walls and from around the windows until you could see the 2x4 framing. My wife was losing it and I had to keep her calmed down. She thought the entire house was going to blow apart. Yeah it is not fun at all. Good job with the video work! This brought back a lot of memories.
Yup, you mentioned two of the "best" things about Michael, and we were fully aware at the time of the positives, if you can say a strong hurricane has any positives. It was fast moving and moved through in daylight. Although the 14-days without electricity following the storm seemed to last forever with unseasonably hot weather and no A/C.
Another fortunate thing from our personal perspective was that the winds were entirely east and west, with nearly all windows and the doors of the house facing north and south, so the strong winds blew parallel to the most vulnerable surfaces.
If we'd have had a breach from broken windows or doors, the house would likely have been destroyed, like eight other homes within a few hundred yards of ours were.
Thanks for watching.
The sound of the conch blowing during the eye was was very eerie
I wish that I would have heard it!
Wow...you provided an amazing & detailed video. Fantastic job! Too often, I see people trying to exploit the devastation & suffering of others in disasters like this. Your video, on the other hand, is truly informative. So well edited & presented...the timeline, added notations, etc. I sincerely appreciate you sharing this footage & providing details about the storm.
I cannot imagine going through something of this magnitude! While I no longer live there (& haven't for many years), I did grow up in Florida (Leesburg for several years, then moved to the east coast...W. Melbourne, Palm Bay area). I was extremely fortunate, never having to go through a hurricane. Tropical storm was the worst I ever endured. That was scary enough (especially as a kid) but this was a massive & powerful hurricane! I'm very happy to know that you & your family got through it safely..."things" can always be replaced but people cannot.
All the best to you...stay safe! Thanks for sharing.
The loss of that magnolia tree breaks my heart, I hope y'all are doing well
I appreciate that you had the insight to say the times while recording.
My Hurricane Harvey (2017) was a totally different experience from yours. It made landfall to the south as a Cat 4, weakened, then drifted off back into the gulf and proceeded to just sit there. I had various radars pulled up constantly, and I spent 18 hours inside of, or directly next to the heaviest rain band of the entire storm. The rain gauge 100yds away registered at a total of 49.5 inches in 24 hours. Just outside of my neighborhood there were cars with destroyed roofs, not from trees falling on them, but from getting hit by the propellors of the boats driving over them. The storm finally started moving again when the water was 6 feet from my doorstep, though only 5 houses down got 3 feet of water.
My 3 most clear memories: Neighbors walking through my yard at 3am to try and find high ground after their house flooded, watching 3 cars driving directly into 6ft deep water, and the sound of the wind. You can't describe what a hurricane sounds like to someone who hasn't heard it, and cameras just can't capture it fully.
Tonight my heart goes out to the victims of Hurricane Laura.
Man I live in Callaway and that was a terrifying day...me and my wife stayed thru it and I will never do that again... when they said it was going to be a cat 3 I was fine with that we boarded our windows up and decided to stay but it changed very quickly and we had nothing we could do besides stay I've been through every storm that hit the Florida Panhandle since 1993 and this was by far the worst
It actually was the strongest to hit the Panhandle. But, in "fairness" to the other hurricanes, none of them hit Bay County directly. Opal, for example...the center crossed the coast 80 miles to the west near Pensacola Beach.
Thanks for watching and sharing.
It's hard to believe that the yard showing at the start of the video, is the same one at the end. The amount of damage there was insane. Glad you guys were ok though.
I was rooting for the little white table throughout this video. Little buddy held on for as long as he could.
I love how completely calm he is while everything he owns is getting destroyed. It just goes to show that someone understands property can be replaced, lives can’t.
Windows deciding to do an update at THE worst time possible was comical. Glad you're OK
3/15/2019: I've planted sunflowers and tomatoes in my garden. Just really getting started on that, more than a month behind last year. Next on the list is to rebuild my trellises for cucumbers and other vining plants.
Cleanup continues, including materials left behind by the crew who put up our new fences. I think they're supposed to clean up after their work.
@K W It's coming back, very slowly. There are still a lot of businesses which haven't rebuilt/re-opened.
Several of the schools are mothballed due to decreased enrollment. A significant number of people apparently have moved away and may not return.
I haven't been to Panama City Beach since the storm, but I understand it's already fairly much back to normal. It was nowhere as damaged as Panama City and its surrounding communities, especially to the east. I think this side and eastward down the coast have a LONG recovery ahead, and may not be the same in a lifetime. The trees!! :-(
@K W
You inspired me to create a gofundme account. But, I may delete it. I feel odd about something like this. Guess I'll think about whether to keep it for a day or so.
I appreciate your comments and concerns. I put a link in the description. If it comes up a bad link, that means I decided not to keep it.
tinyurl.com/y373xrsd
I'll never forget hurricane irma. I was a first time mom and knew nothing about it because I was being induced into labor and at the hospital for 3.5 days. I get home and had 3 days to prepare. Didn't get to obviously. My oldest son, now 6, was only 6 days old. I will never forget that fear. Postpartum and scared. We lost power not even halfway through the storm. That's how I knew it would be bad. Day light left still outside, I will never forget the pinkish orange ting to the sky and this eerie feeling I had while helping my partner at the time, board up the windows because our house is surrounded by big oak trees. We were renters btw. Our landlord wouldn't have someone come out and trim our trees. So after the storm we had huge branches on our roof, in the back yard. No power for 3 days. It was hot and had to throw out every bit of food we had. My heart broke that day when my baby had to be in a diaper with the front door and windows open and it was still hot. Thankfully my uncle had a generator and took is in until we had power again. Now I have a 5 & 6 year old and I'm praying Florida doesn't get hit too hard again. Last year idalia hit south of me (fort Myers area) so bad. I pray it misses us again. ❤️
I live in Panama City Beach. We are very fortunate that the main thing we lost in this devastating hurricane that rocked my community was my husband’s car, our pool enclosure and several trees. A massive branch flew over the top of the house, nicked the chimney and came down upon my husband’s car. It somehow knocked the front bumper off, cracked the back windows, broke seals inside the vehicle and gouged a huge dent into the side of the vehicle. Thus, completely totaling the car.
Three years later and this community is still feeling the effects of this incredibly powerful hurricane. We have been limping along ever since and the Pandemic has not done this area any favors. You still feel and see the impact of this horrific storm in the wake of its tremendous destruction.
My two sons and I rode it out in Lynn Haven. By the grace of God himself our home was okay with minimal damage. This was my first hurricane on my own and was just glad to have remembered the precautions and prep from the hurricanes as a child/teenager. Doesn't mean I wasn't scared half to death though!
Was in this storm, in Lynn Haven, was really lucky to have my house survive.
Lynn haven is more inland I think.
I'm glad you and your mother got through that unharmed. The damage to property and especially the trees is sad. Here's hoping it is a long, long time before that area sees anything like that again.
Chances are good, hundreds of years.
Thanks for watching.
Hi! I'm the guy who posted this video! And, I watch it periodically. Dayum, that was traumatic. And, watching it now and then, Sheesh! I can see why people question that I was calm, and question the stability of the garden table. Oh well. Life is like a box of chocolates...and I got Michael and not Ian.
Biggest one I ever got hit with was a Cat 2 or 3, but the big gusts looked like 5:12 to 5:18. Blue roof tarps everywhere after that. It was Wilma Cat 5 with 185 at some point, but reportedly was estimated at a 2 when it hit me, but it felt like more.
@@Polarcupcheck Let's hope the victims of Ian are few. One huge difference is the storm surge.
Who else was watching the table? That thing's hurricane proof!
That would be me. Silly stuff gets my attention in the midst of a hurricane.
The little table out in the yard was up and ok, couple of minutes later was up-side down, then right side up again, then....
I didn't know they sold hurricane proof tables?
Thanks for recording and posting. Hope y'all are doing ok.
This is a textbook example of the shift in wind directions when the eye passes directly over. Note the big magnolia only lost one side of it's foliage before the eye. The second pass took care of the rest.
Our grandiflora was stripped bare on it's SE side from Katrina (we're in Biloxi). It's still not fully recovered, 13 years later. All the pines around us will forever lean NW.
Amazing, thanks for capturing this. I don't know why, but watching category 5 hurricanes in action is my comfort type of videos, lol.
They are fascinating. But, if you were in your home, seriously worried about whether or not it would hold up, you might not be feeling so comfortable.
The structure shudders, the sound is overwhelming. You can hear objects striking your house. It's stressful.
A woman two doors down fled during the eye of the storm as her home was being torn apart. It's now a vacant lot, along with 8-other destroyed homes within a few hundred yards.
Thanks for watching.
Sir, excellent recording & even more excellent the way you remained calm!! I'd like you in my bunker if, God forbid, we ever need a bunker! I'm from AL (Tusc) & though we've seen our fair share of bad weather nothing I've experienced can match this! I am so very sorry y'all didn't get the national attention & help you should've had from the govt. I do hope y'all have recovered & have been restored to whole although I know nothing will ever be the same as b4 this hurricane. Plz stay well in these uncertain times, be safe & may many blessings come to you & yours in all your ways & for all your days
Fellow Victim of Michael. I am so thankful that we left late the night before it hit. Something just came over us saying leave the area because we usually stay but I just had a feeling it was going to be a strong storm. We found a room in Gainesville FL, watching the coverage all day. Searching Facebook for updates but when the storm hit it took out every form of communication. I didn’t know if are families were ok. Was are home still standing? Our places of employment? Would I have a job? How long would we go without power? I am still dealing with the aftermath of the storm. My home was a total loss due to flooding but we had no flood insurance because there wasn’t a need for it or so we thought..creeks and rivers with natural springs were clogged with trees making ground water rise for forming a LAKE with my home in it…my storm didn’t end that day but was a slow death for our home as rains continued almost everyday with no where for the water to go but spread out. We had to use a boat to empty out the house which was built on piers. 6 ft deep at the max, now still about a foot deep.
As a resident of FL I’ve never watched it before hand like this. I’m glad you captured this. We’ve rode out a lot of hurricanes in the past but for some we have to evacuate. Especially during Irma.
What general area are you in ?
skids ftw around Putnam county, it’s about 1hr and 10 minutes from Jacksonville
@@LLewisASMR ahh you guys didnt get direct eye wall like we did in orlando
skids ftw nope but the two outer bands was just enough 😭😭
Very good job of documenting Michael and its eye wall. Thanks
Hmmmm... Native Floridian here & I love to watch mother nature's sense of humor. Big rooted trees fell to their knees in the mist of her during her work but a simple cafe table only flipped over once but look like someone sat it back up properly & the bird feeder (I think that's what it was) really were able to strong against a damn C4/5 hurricane. I be damn!! I love Mother Nature. She's so mysterious.
For the record, there was no crazed person running out in the storm to set a lawn table upright.
1:03
Me: Turns of PC with ups on because no power and hurricane
Windows 7: *Allow us to introduce ourseleves*
Lol I'm ded
This is me:MOM THERES A TORNADO WARNING GET TO BASEMENT NOW
Mom: OK!
Computer:Windows 7 Needs A Update Do not Close Computer
@@tabby-iliketoplayrobloxand4891 oh rip 😂😂
my heart literally broke when the magnolia tree was uprooted :( hope you recovered okay💖
I can't believe how calm the narrator is. Glad you and your Mom are safe.
I swear Windows has a built in sensor for when it is the worst time possible for an update. Gets me EVERY TIME 😂😂
I hope you don't mind if I impose on you with a question. Did my video begin at the Windows update scene for you?
@@Vector_Ze No, it didn't begin with a windows update. He's talking about this.. @1:02
Here is a trick:
Press: Win + R
Write: "cmd.exe"
Press enter and a black console window should appear
Into the console enter:
shutdown -s -f -t0
shutdown tells the pc to shut down
-s means a normal shutdown (for example -r would be a restart)
-f means immediately close all programs
-t0 means without delay (you can use this for example to do a scheduled shutdown by typing -t360 which would be 360 seconds or 6 minutes)
The best thing? If you shut down your pc with the command i mentioned above windows will not do any sort of updates before shutting down. This works in Windows 7, 8, 8., 10 (those are the ones i tried it on)
@@Vector_Ze It started from the beginning! Just found that part funny
@@matthayesphotography I was just wondering, because of something I see on my computer. When I open the video from the link on my home page, it starts 64-seconds into the video. Here's the link it gives me
th-cam.com/video/68WI2Cr5DHA/w-d-xo.html
The &t=64s is what's doing it. But, I don't know how it got stored locally. If I remove the suffix in the address bar, it starts normally.
Thanks for the feedback.
My parents live out in Southport in an old run-down single-wide trailer built in the 70s. They stayed during Michael but it got so bad, they ended up riding the storm out in their cars at a park up the road. There weren't a lot of trees at the park. I think that's what they were afraid of, a tree falling on the trailer. Needless to say, there aren't any trees left. All gone. So sad.
I love how calm you stayed during the entire thing. Not like most people who go around screaming all the time.
Filming this horrific storm was a very brave thing to do, me and my family (Panama city) boarded up our windows, but the noises were enough. We heard the train on 231 knock over and it sounded like a bomb
I remember directly after the hurricane it looked like an apocalypse, all the leaveless trees and the clouds in the sky😬
I just rode out my first hurricane in Punta Gorda, we took a direct hit from hurricane Ian and it spun over us for roughly 6-8 hours not including the outer bands. Our town will take a long time before it looks like it used too but we were truly spared from the storm surge. Wind Gust of up to 190 mph will truly set off one’s primal fear!
I hope you have rebuilt everything and planted a tree in your family’s trees memory!
It’s definitely not safe to go outside right now... two seconds later he’s outside lol loves this guy. I’d be the exact same way. Never been in a hurricane but I know I’d be doing the same thing this fella is doing. Cool video! Hope everyone is ok!!
To be fair, between the time I made that comment and when I again opened the door, we spent some time huddled in an interior bathroom.
This video documents about 11-minutes of a storm which lasted hours.
But, thanks.
Wow, vicious winds! I’m sorry for the losses there, poor magnolia, and the oak. Glad you stayed safe. Pretty scary when that branch punched into the roof! Thankyou for sharing what it was like.
It's truly shocking how powerful a hurricane is. But hats off to you for staying as calm as you did. I would have been terrified
I'm from miami, and growing up with hurricanes, as a kid it's the most scariest time you can go thru. But in the past years it's like the hurricanes have become more ferocious, glad I now live in central texas. 🕊🙏💜
Hurricane blows in, power goes out, Windows starts an update.
Happened to me with Matthew in NC in 2016. 23 updates while my UPS is beeping.
@@wonderwoman3197 .... Utterly baffling.
Im glad to see that little white table lived
windows deciding to do an update right before a hurricane hits is the most windows sounding thing I've ever heard
I’ve watched a lot of Michael videos and I feel like yours shows how hard the wind was pushing the best. Thank you for documenting and I’m glad you and the lady made it out alive.
You have a well built home sir.
That hit after the eyewall was completely indescribable such power
You handled this storm courageously. It’s been about three years now . I hope everything has been fixed and the yard looking good again .
Before I watched the whole video I skipped ahead to the end to check that you came thru ok. Very glad you did...
Am I the only one that was rooting for that little tree by the white table? :-P
I was rooting for all of the trees.
I was rooting for that little one and that huge one that survived
Damn, that little white table hung in there for so long, was rooting for it. Sorry you had to go through this.
Bobloblaw624 The little table that could! :)
Kudo's to you sir, for filming when your yard and house were being severely impacted. I hope the recovery was swift and hassle free. Greets from Australia.
Amazing footage and incredibly well-done video. I love how calm you remain throughout the terrifying ordeal. You have some balls of steel! If we get a direct hit from Dorian (as currently projected) and I stay half as calm as you did I’ll feel incredibly proud. I am glad you made it though safely and hope the repairs were made and you’re now back to a somewhat normal life.
Unbelievable... Great footage... Thanks for sharing!
I felt a real, genuine pang of sadness when one of the magnolia trees got uprooted :(
I did not go through a hurricane but I went through tropical storm Claudette on the way to Panama Beach Florida. Saw the damage from Michael and was thanking God Claudette didn't turn into a hurricane. I admire the courage of those who stay. Facing a fear many choose not to.
Thanks for watching. I'd like to note, for many people it wasn't a matter of courage. The sad fact is that for a lot of people evacuation isn't a practical option.
Then, add to that fact that Michael really did catch many off-guard with its rapid intensification overnight. There were bunches of people like us who would choose to ride out a lesser hurricane like the one we faced when we went to sleep, but woke up to a much stronger storm and too late to safely leave.
Then, there's the fact that a lot of people don't have thousands of dollars in reserve. And, that's really what it takes to hoist anchor and get out of Dodge for an undetermined period of time.
Ask a thousand people why they didn't leave, you'll get at least a few hundred reasons. In the case of Michael, the rapid intensification before landfall will be a common one.
This is one of my most favourite Hurricane videos on TH-cam.
Excellent film of this hurricane. You captured that unique sound that hurricanes make (I've been through a few). I am amazed at how well your house, the neighbor's house and shed did through this storm. Your houses are solid. I am sorry that you had to go through this and I am so glad that you are both okay. Take care and thank you for sharing this.
Thank you!
As a nature sound recordist of some experience, yes, recording wind sounds without mic noise is a real challenge.
Unfortunately, there were four houses within a five-minute walk which were completely destroyed, and many more needing significant repairs. One of the destroyed houses was just 2-doors to the west. Its roof was strewn across the whole block in the south eye wall. That house and another one have been demolished since. There are several others in the immediate neighborhood which are clearly beyond repair but remain standing so far.
I stay in parker, five minutes away from Winn Dixie. I rode out this storm, thinking like so many of us here, that it wasn't going to be a strong hurricane.. I was extremely wrong. I recorded a video of my neighbor's roof being torn off. After that I got my brother's dogs that I was watching and put them in the bathtub and waited in there with them until the storm passed. Most of the houses on my road were made of brick but when I walked out, the brick that was part of the garage was lying on the ground. I celebrated my 30th birthday ten days after the storm. Needless to say, I won't be staying for anymore category three hurricanes or above, just to be safe. I'm hoping that y'all are still doing okay. Lots of prayers for the panhandle and other affected areas.
I don't know whether you were here in 1995 or not. If so, you'd have been close to 7-years old. I'm much older. I laughed out loud when co-workers purchased, "I survived Hurricane Opal", T-shirts.
Opal caused a lot of damage here, especially on the beach. But, Panama City was not the target. Opal crossed the coast 80-miles to the west. Michael was the first direct hit for Panama City in a lifetime. Ironically, PCBch was less affected by Michael than it was by Opal, and the news media gave the beaches more coverage than they did the harder hit eastern areas. Go figure.
I recorded a video of Opal in Panama City, it's in my Tropical Weather Playlist...
th-cam.com/play/PLf2iOlhKGlL0lMzc9W0lu0EgBuGIuRU1M.html
@@Vector_Ze yeah I was for opal as well but I barley remember it. I was born on the afb in 88. Your right, no hurricane has ever done any devastation like Micheal has. I remember that Katrina was supposed to hit us but changed course. I sometimes wonder if Micheal was so bad because we had got lucky in '05 or some crazy end of days type thing. 🤷 Once I did get a phone after the storm, I spent time looking up hurricane records. Eloise looked bad but like Opal, it hit pcb harder than this side of town.
@@Vector_Ze yeah I noticed that most of the coverage was on the beach. :/ I suppose it's good reassurance for the tourists. I avoid that area and have always gone to crooked island. I heard the road to it is blocked off.
@@kmkkween88 Thanks for watching. I wouldn't put any credence in supernatural influences in the storm.
I was working here (WDLP) when Eloise hit. A friend and co-worker made a video of the experience on super 8 silent film. It's not mine to post or I would.
kmkkween88 my husband was two days short of being one month post quadruple bypass. At one point we closed all the curtains, crawled into our bed, and waited to see if we were goi g to live.
Am I the only person that was rooting for the little tree to make it through
Unless you have lived through something like this I don’t think anyone should criticise the decisions you make based on the circumstances you are living through at that time. Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
YES🤩 That happened when I was younger! I used to live in Staten Island. Hurricane Sandy hit. After that, the flood was almost up to our stairs, cars in trees, a disaster. I feel bad for the place under us. We lived near a lake so that was a benefit(sarcasm).
*Winds start taking apart trees and there is debris flying everywhere*
Cameraman: So its 12:00 PM...
Sorry to disappoint. Screaming like a Reed Timmer banshee isn't my style.
smart451cab I wasn't disappointed, I just thought it was weird how calm you were throughout all of this.
@@txch
Let me help.
I'm 65-years old. Michael wasn't my first hurricane, although it was my strongest. And, although it's far distant in my past, I was a professional radio announcer for nearly 20-years, ending in 1992. I have worked, professionally, on-air through several major storms.
I've got an above average education in meteorology. Plus the fact that I'm basically a non-hysterical person. Reed Timmer and I are opposites.
I knew the house was well built and on high ground. I also knew the winds would be east & west, while the windows in the house face north & south. A breach, like a blown window, is a primary cause of total building failure. One thing I didn't anticipate is that the south side of the storm (west winds) would be as strong as it was. That's not typical.
And finally, freaking out in an emergency is never helpful.
My bf and I lived in Springfield. Our apartment was ruined and we now live in Illinois. Michael was absolutely devastating and I miss Florida 😥 but we’ll be back one day
❤
Love sent
Slay Ridah thank you! It’s been rough but we’re alive and that’s what matters. It could’ve been much worse
@@steezease6404 yes it could have been and im glad you were safe, i was in my apartment in callaway when it hit so i was right there with yall in a way. I hope yall return soon its starting to look alot better! Take care!
Slay Ridah so glad you were safe too! I hope things get better for you 😊 we’re hoping to come back in a year or 2. Take care too!!
Great coverage. You sounded so calm throughout the whole storm even as it's tearing up your yard and damaging your house. 🙏
literally laughed out loud - windows decided to update
me whispering to the little tree: "you're doing great, honey."
WOW So glad the misses and you are O.K. but this is the best video of a storm like that that I have ever seen .You were so calm
The lady is actually my mother. It's her very well built home where we rode the storm out. My house was damaged beyond repair.
Thanks for watching.
One of my favorite videos of Michael. Very interesting to see it from a homeowner's perspective, rather than your typical storm chasers. It's pretty incredible how much destruction it caused in that neighborhood in only like, 2 hours. I hope recovery is going well for everyone affected by that monstrous storm.
This is one of the more “thorough” hurricane videos I’ve seen. You can really feel the stillness in the eye wall. I love the time stamps…really shows exactly how long a hurricane is from start to finish. Great video!
Thanks, I needed that Julie!
I might even suggest you check the feature length documentary (Days -2 to 37)
th-cam.com/video/ThzWh46wDDk/w-d-xo.html
Check the description with a linked contents list, since you probably won't want to watch all of it.
Thanks for watching!
WOW that table is badass
It paid attention in physics and fluid dynamics classes.
smart451cab I saw it was upside down in the beginning of the video and then stood up again on itself , unless you went out there to fix it before it got really bad
@@Mars0984
It was upright at the base of the small dogwood tree at the beginning. It blew over, and later landed upright. At the end of the storm it had again been toppled and been either blown or knocked in the other direction, on the opposite side of the dogwood.
I assure you, in the time of this video, no human hand touched the table. As I said, it was physics and fluid dynamics.
Is it set in concrete?
"Trying to do an emergency shut down and windows decided to do an update" LOL
I live in fountain and as good as you tryed to capture it ,it was worse than the video shows.the sound was like 100 jet engines. Total devastation in my naborhood.scariest thing I've ever been through.wont ever stay for another one......
I did my best, but we were hunkered down in an interior bathroom during the most intense parts of the storm (safety first), and so I captured no video.
I thought I did a decent job of capturing the audio, though. Although no smartphone will do justice to the recording.
Thanks for watching!
this man sounds so calm and nice, he seems like a really nice guy
The most disturbing part of this video for me was the timing of that freakin windows update...
My settings were to have updates downloaded automatically, but not installed until shutdown/reboot. It was just bad timing, and my not knowing there was an update waiting to happen.
Thanks for watching
The Windows update almost killed me 😂😂😂😂
I admire this man’s humility and calmness
At that point I don't think you have a choice other than to just look at it.
So sorry about those beautiful trees but with respect for the way you kept so calm