I put off my trip to Orange Beach until later this month but I think I will just cancel. One less person driving around just to see the damage will not make much difference but I will not take a vacation during someone else's loss and devastation.
Luisiana is a sacrifice zone state. Did you see how polluted it is there!?!? Also Luisiana has hoards of swamp flies that flee their destroyed habitat to BITE people on the beaches.
You may eventually be able to help by visiting after the cleanup. That helps the locals earn a living. The sadness is in the air, but they will need business to recover also. Cheers.
@@samanthahowle6955 Yeah it was pretty bad. I was in Mobile and had two oaks go through the house I was renting. Luckily nobody was hurt. It was the worst hurricane I've been through. It felt like it would never end.
i know people are going to say that this was surge damage not wind damage but you can see that the dry dock with the boats has the metal poles bended in one specific direction and its not the bottom of the pole but the top is bended and the side of it is sheared of the side you can see that some of the homes in front are fine with some shingle damage but the homes behind are almost completly and irreparably damaged.
Thanks for you coverage LSM! interesting how the damage to certain buildings are at angles you wouldn't suspect and on the other hand , as for the raw power of mother nature..... DAMN!
@Marcus y mas Do some research. Sally was going borderline 3 with land windspeed sustained 105 mph, frequent gusts of 111- 123 mph which puts the gust strength at Cat 3. Parked at 2 mph. The damage in Pensacola is unbelievable.
I really question the rating of category 2... I think this storm was in the range of a category 3. You don't really see damage like this from a category 2.
@@waynecressy8455 I am thinking the winds were more like 125mph sustained to knock homes down. A cat 1 or 2 usually tears off shingles, and siding. It doesn't demolish homes.
This is not a funny situation at all but what brand was the TV because I didn't see a crack in the screen at all. I'm sure it doesn't work due to water damage but the screen wasn't even cracked!
Impressive the damage these areas had long periods of time with winds in 90-105 mph range since the hurricane was moving at around 2-3 mph. Gusting even higher maybe in the 120MPH range.
What the sht. That tower had barely any footing. But I don't know how far you'd have to drive a pile in that salt marsh to support a cell tower of that size
Its crazy i was in fort morgan and im pretty sure thats where it hit hardest the condo next to mine had its walls ripped off we were lucky to only have water damage amd we kept power for a while
@@tommypetraglia4688 but was the piling installed correctly?? So sad to see all the dmg. I have been in many hurricanes!! Now live in tornado country!! Just pick your poison!!
Life is unbelivable you thought your house was a flood proof but nature outsmart you by using hurricane to totally demolished your hard earned house nothing is disaster proof now a days...Hope nobody was hurt and stay safe..
At 0:25 I thought it was a tv on the roof. But no, the whole 2nd floor was wiped clean off. At least the main floor was strapped well to the footing pilings
Oh my GOD THAT is very TERRIBLE .I very concer for THAT. God Mercy God Mercy I hope the,people in this área are,ok.Please,God help them and .protec ...take care all of them.
None, Just local American wood and builders. The Chinese are actually pretty underrated and good at building stuff tho., They have the world's largest bullet train rail network, world's largest bridges, largest dams, largest skyscrapers, largest power stations etc If you lookup List of future tallest buildings on google, most of them are in china.
I was wondering what a TV was doing on the roof of the house at the beginning....THEN...I realized it was missing an ENTIRE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE and it was just sitting on what used to be the floor of a room...
A rare occasion seeing a lot of homes with furnishings exposed and in the open if you wondered what people put in their houses. It's not a good idea to have free standing top heavy antenna towers in hurricane prone areas; got to have guy wires! The boat storage structure was held together by the boats, reversing the intended idea!
Every single video I see from Alabama, I cannot believe how awful these houses and structures were built. I live in an old house in PA...I'd expect this kind of damage from houses here. Not beachfront houses...yikes. Edit: My husband just looked it up and they don't have building codes in Alabama. lol Wow it shows!
Alabama does have building codes. The storm set there for 3 hrs straight with wind over 100 mph and extreme folding. Doesn’t matter how well the house was built if there are tornadoes involved as well (which is suspected) damage is inevitable
Fort Morgan is at the western end of a long strip of land that juts out into Mobile Bay. When you understand that, you can understand the devastation. Two days worth of gale force winds with absolutely no buffer. I suspect Dauphin Island also suffered greatly.
@Mara L Camps? Someone spend money and sweat building those. I stay a few miles from the Atlantic ocean and believe you me, the quality of housing structures leaves a lot to be desired. The rules are: the cheapest contractor wins. That's why everything here is hurricane portable. The other thing is flooding. Both of those issues can be resolved by spending your money wisely on a properly built structures.
@@mdstmouse7 not really true. You build to live where drainage is good. Building in flood planes is down right stupid. Spend the money and build high and dry.
@@mdstmouse7 beaches are flood prone. River beds are notorious for flooding. Why would you ever considered to build anything stick build in those locations and expect it to stay dry?
@Jim Aarts couldnt agree more. I would never build my home on the beach. Just like I would never live by a river. I got flooded by hurricane george back in 1998. I never lived by that creek again.
I live in Santa Rosa County and had the eye pass over us it was hours and hours of a beating and the rain dear lord we've never had that much rain even with Ivan or Dennis now Sally was not them but the speed she was going was the killer she was moving slower than a turtle on fly paper!
It seems all the wooden homes many were destroyed. Whereas the cement structures are still standing. So what does that say, build with concrete not wood, but when people want to look better than the next they build on the coast and their homes have to look good. Common sense is that there are hurricanes and on the coast, they will get hit first and many homes will not survive. How much money will it take before people realize that maybe living on the coast is not a good idea? I will pray for all those people just the same.
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale dictates 111 mph as Cat 3. Al/FL sustained land windspeed was 105 mph, gusts at 111-123 mph. All at storm moving 2 mph... caused by rapidly changing Arctic conditions that are slowing down hurricanes by approximately 15%. Now, imagine Katrina at 2 mph.. Future is bleak.
A lot of comments about Sally only a Cat 2 without realizing what an ultra slow moving hurricane can do. Fat Sally literally sat on their face and flooded them with endless surge and blowing wind for an extra long time. How would you like a slow fat Sally on your face?
@IAmaPersion The last real hurricane to hit Mobile/Baldwin Co. Was Frederick in 79. We were way way past due. This thing was no joke though. I think it caught a lot of people of guard because it was a Cat 1 then it blew up before landfall and to top it off, it was only moving 2 mph.
Thank god Alabama doesn’t get a lot of hurricanes or else they would be bankrupt insurance wise. Cheap build houses, that’s why you can buy you a mansion for cheap there. Prayers for all.
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We love Fort Morgan, and consider it our home away from home. We go every year, except this one. So sad to see the destruction.
Kudos to whoever mounted that TV at 2:50. Whole wall gets knocked down by a hurricane but the TV stays.
gotta watch the Bama games, eh ??
It's also plugged into wall that was thrown.
I put off my trip to Orange Beach until later this month but I think I will just cancel. One less person driving around just to see the damage will not make much difference but I will not take a vacation during someone else's loss and devastation.
Luisiana is a sacrifice zone state. Did you see how polluted it is there!?!? Also Luisiana has hoards of swamp flies that flee their destroyed habitat to BITE people on the beaches.
@@insectbite1714 ??? What does Louisiana have anything to do with Orange Beach Alabama???
@@philm1686 They are both Gulf Coast states and both have experienced devastating hurricanes. As well as has Texas, Mississippi and Florida.
You may eventually be able to help by visiting after the cleanup. That helps the locals earn a living. The sadness is in the air, but they will need business to recover also. Cheers.
I will be making more trips after the clean up. My sister lives in Baldwin County so I consider myself lucky to be able to go every chance I get.
That looks like tornado damage inside hurricane Sally.
Probably the most devastating Cat 2 I’ve ever seen.
Sure, around the eye and close to the shore
Ike
It hit land at 2mph slowest moving hurricane in history
@@samanthahowle6955 Yeah it was pretty bad. I was in Mobile and had two oaks go through the house I was renting. Luckily nobody was hurt. It was the worst hurricane I've been through. It felt like it would never end.
Excellent video from you guys!
My prayers are with you all
i know people are going to say that this was surge damage not wind damage but you can see that the dry dock with the boats has the metal poles bended in one specific direction and its not the bottom of the pole but the top is bended and the side of it is sheared of the side you can see that some of the homes in front are fine with some shingle damage but the homes behind are almost completly and irreparably damaged.
Thanks for you coverage LSM!
interesting how the damage to certain buildings are at angles you wouldn't suspect and
on the other hand , as for the raw power of mother nature..... DAMN!
Thank you for posting this and keeping us informed.
Current recommended rating for structures that close to the water in Florida is CAT 3. I don't think these structures were built to withstand a CAT 3.
@Marcus y mas
Do some research. Sally was going borderline 3 with land windspeed sustained 105 mph, frequent gusts of 111- 123 mph which puts the gust strength at Cat 3.
Parked at 2 mph.
The damage in Pensacola is unbelievable.
@@earthtears4850 I agree. Id give it a 3 just for hanging around so long. I give Dorian a 6 for the same reasons.
Awesome footage and editing...Thanks for the upload.
Sadly I have spent years trying to hold those houses together so many service calls, man this sucks.
The drone operater took some great lines
Thank you!
Absolutely devastating !!!!!
dAMN... THOSE HOUSES GOT SHREDDED..!! And this was ONLY a CAT 2 Hurricane.!! All those boats gotta be plucked out of that wreckage..!!
out pocket money to move that boat?...several thousands...
The boat storage structure was really poorly built. Needed much stronger steel beams and supports
Man
Still in the dark in Mobile.
how do they get damaged boats out of marinas? I wish there was at least 1 video showing how that is done
Did the concrete cinder block homes hold up any better than the wood frames.
I really question the rating of category 2... I think this storm was in the range of a category 3.
You don't really see damage like this from a category 2.
There was a report of wind gust of 121 mph which is cat 3 so I’m sure the category will be adjusted at later date
@@waynecressy8455 I am thinking the winds were more like 125mph sustained to knock homes down.
A cat 1 or 2 usually tears off shingles, and siding. It doesn't demolish homes.
Michael H yea cus it was strengthening as it was approaching coast so it coulda easily strengthened more then they realized
@@waynecressy8455 This was one unpredictable storm. They were way off with the course. It also strengthened at the last minute.
Michael H yep sally had mind of her own
We were there not long ago. Condolences.
This is not a funny situation at all but what brand was the TV because I didn't see a crack in the screen at all. I'm sure it doesn't work due to water damage but the screen wasn't even cracked!
So much destruction 🥺 Cell tower collapse is frightening.
Amazing drone footage. 👍
God is aganst 5 G.
Very dangerous conditions☠️! Please be cautious. 💝
0:24 tv still standing.
gottta watch those 'Bama games
But the one "on the roof" was really just left behind when the 2nd floor was wiped clean off
A cell phone tower toppled by a Cat 2??? They might have to reevaluate there foundation requirements for that structure in sandy soil.
Prayers!
Aren't those cell towers good for 150 mph?
WTF do they use to hold together those houses, Elmer's glue ?? It may be waterproof .. but you guys a pushing it
@IAmaPersion You can only fool mother nature for so long.
We are in elberta and it hit my home bad af
Just heartbreaking.
Wonderful place to store big $ boats
Right in the direct path of a major hurricane
2:50. Welp honey, that tv ain't ever coming off the wall.
I done bolted it on real good
Great advertisement for the company that made the bracket for the tv.
I noticed that too. They must have sunk lag screws into those studs in that wall. It damn sure held.
The cell tower showes bad building practices. Not enough concrete!!
Impressive the damage these areas had long periods of time with winds in 90-105 mph range since the hurricane was moving at around 2-3 mph. Gusting even higher maybe in the 120MPH range.
cell towers with no cables to secure them ?? need to have better building codes ...
What the sht. That tower had barely any footing.
But I don't know how far you'd have to drive a pile in that salt marsh to support a cell tower of that size
Worked at the beach club throughout this storm. Not a fun experience would not recommend
Its crazy i was in fort morgan and im pretty sure thats where it hit hardest the condo next to mine had its walls ripped off we were lucky to only have water damage amd we kept power for a while
Lots of bad building practices!!
Yes and lots and lots of high insurance rates. A small 3 bedroom house not on the beach, insurance could be 4K on up. No thanks.
But but, I strapped it to the pilings according to code
@@tommypetraglia4688 but was the piling installed correctly?? So sad to see all the dmg. I have been in many hurricanes!! Now live in tornado country!! Just pick your poison!!
@@kball9012 minimum code will fail!! Everytime without fail
Life is unbelivable you thought your house was a flood proof but nature outsmart you by using hurricane to totally demolished your hard earned house nothing is disaster proof now a days...Hope nobody was hurt and stay safe..
At 0:25 I thought it was a tv on the roof.
But no, the whole 2nd floor was wiped clean off.
At least the main floor was strapped well to the footing pilings
Wooden structures in a hurricane zone equals what we are seeing in this video.
Gracias por compartir.
Damage in this area doesnt seem to match other areas, perhaps a mesovortex came through?
Agree. Almost looks like tornado damage.
Nature is reclaiming land and sea.
Oh my GOD THAT is very TERRIBLE .I very concer for THAT. God Mercy God Mercy
I hope the,people in this área are,ok.Please,God help them and .protec ...take care all of them.
Jesusantimos comos hacen casas 🏡 de madera con estas tormenta muy fuertes
It was a big storm, but the quality of building materials and construction is no less than embarrassing.
True
I want to know this...
Is it Chinese naterial or chinese contractors or chinese winds that huff puff and brung everything down??
None, Just local American wood and builders.
The Chinese are actually pretty underrated and good at building stuff tho., They have the world's largest bullet train rail network, world's largest bridges, largest dams, largest skyscrapers, largest power stations etc
If you lookup List of future tallest buildings
on google, most of them are in china.
Looks like tornado damage.
it was a horizontal tornado ....
@:24 - TV still sitting on the stand.
I was wondering what a TV was doing on the roof of the house at the beginning....THEN...I realized it was missing an ENTIRE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE and it was just sitting on what used to be the floor of a room...
Wooden houses in hurricane area, brilliant.
A rare occasion seeing a lot of homes with furnishings exposed and in the open if you wondered what people put in their houses.
It's not a good idea to have free standing top heavy antenna towers in hurricane prone areas; got to have guy wires!
The boat storage structure was held together by the boats, reversing the intended idea!
Every single video I see from Alabama, I cannot believe how awful these houses and structures were built. I live in an old house in PA...I'd expect this kind of damage from houses here. Not beachfront houses...yikes. Edit: My husband just looked it up and they don't have building codes in Alabama. lol Wow it shows!
Alabama does have building codes. The storm set there for 3 hrs straight with wind over 100 mph and extreme folding. Doesn’t matter how well the house was built if there are tornadoes involved as well (which is suspected) damage is inevitable
Fort Morgan is at the western end of a long strip of land that juts out into Mobile Bay. When you understand that, you can understand the devastation. Two days worth of gale force winds with absolutely no buffer. I suspect Dauphin Island also suffered greatly.
This could be totally prevented by building with concrete, steel and stone.
Enjoy paying contractor for another match stick house.
@Mara L Camps? Someone spend money and sweat building those. I stay a few miles from the Atlantic ocean and believe you me, the quality of housing structures leaves a lot to be desired. The rules are: the cheapest contractor wins.
That's why everything here is hurricane portable. The other thing is flooding. Both of those issues can be resolved by spending your money wisely on a properly built structures.
@@notyou1877 everything floods afaik. unless you build a stone house
@@mdstmouse7 not really true. You build to live where drainage is good. Building in flood planes is down right stupid. Spend the money and build high and dry.
@@notyou1877 ohh well then you are talking about location
@@mdstmouse7 beaches are flood prone. River beds are notorious for flooding. Why would you ever considered to build anything stick build in those locations and expect it to stay dry?
Beachfront houses?
Need to be built better
@Jim Aarts couldnt agree more.
I would never build my home on the beach. Just like I would never live by a river. I got flooded by hurricane george back in 1998. I never lived by that creek again.
Cell tower destroyed..like Babel tower..
That big triangular braced tower should not have come down and be laying across a major road
Meu Deus😱😱😱
American fascination for wooden buildings.
I live in Santa Rosa County and had the eye pass over us it was hours and hours of a beating and the rain dear lord we've never had that much rain even with Ivan or Dennis now Sally was not them but the speed she was going was the killer she was moving slower than a turtle on fly paper!
Definitely A High Spiritual Power at work with A Vengeance!!!
Solo pasan las mismas imágenes.
It seems all the wooden homes many were destroyed. Whereas the cement structures are still standing. So what does that say, build with concrete not wood, but when people want to look better than the next they build on the coast and their homes have to look good. Common sense is that there are hurricanes and on the coast, they will get hit first and many homes will not survive. How much money will it take before people realize that maybe living on the coast is not a good idea? I will pray for all those people just the same.
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A lot of damage to homes
So sad! 🙏🙏🙏
PUFF the MAGIC DRAGON lived by the Sea.....lol
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale dictates
111 mph as Cat 3.
Al/FL sustained land windspeed was 105 mph, gusts at 111-123 mph.
All at storm moving 2 mph... caused by rapidly changing Arctic conditions that are slowing down hurricanes by approximately 15%.
Now, imagine Katrina at 2 mph..
Future is bleak.
There is no way that was just a cat 2
Sally hurricane is really powerful to destroyed a lot and it’s not cat4 or 5 I hope and pray for a direct hit area 🙏
Lake Charles got it worse, no power for 3 weeks! Hundreds of businesses destroyed.
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A lot of poorly made structures not adequately nailed
A lot of comments about Sally only a Cat 2 without realizing what an ultra slow moving hurricane can do. Fat Sally literally sat on their face and flooded them with endless surge and blowing wind for an extra long time. How would you like a slow fat Sally on your face?
Hope those people have insurance. Living on the water you'd be stupid not too.
Big day for the metal recycle yard on those towers. Copper wires.
> dry dock destroyed drone
this is what happens when you build houses from sticks and tin sheet ,
in england they call houses like this sheds !
Please come to foley alabama n gather the wreckage here
Ok for God sake u know every 5 to 10 years it's gonna get leveled so quit building there or quit whining that it happens
@IAmaPersion The last real hurricane to hit Mobile/Baldwin Co. Was Frederick in 79. We were way way past due. This thing was no joke though. I think it caught a lot of people of guard because it was a Cat 1 then it blew up before landfall and to top it off, it was only moving 2 mph.
Lovely 😳😳😳😳😳
Category 2 Hurricane Sally = Typhoon category 2 Damrey Nha Trang
Easu Paradise.....
Hopefully the government isn't paying to rebuild. Move inland.
where do you think the "gubenut" gets all the money ???
and they will clean up for the next tropical storm/hurricane...there are disasters all over the place and in the world...pray is all i can say...
Thank god Alabama doesn’t get a lot of hurricanes or else they would be bankrupt insurance wise. Cheap build houses, that’s why you can buy you a mansion for cheap there. Prayers for all.
Seriously, why put a house near the shoreline? The ocean is deadly..
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10 Commandments is all HIS asking and with a true love of human beings.
So sorry for your losses, bama
God's justice is coming
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Signs of End time appearing every where.
Sins cause harm and REPENTANCE removes the cause. Sin and Hell are married unless REPENTANCE proclaim a divorce.
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"If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9)
Pray:
Dear God, I am a sinner and need your forgiveness. I believe that Jesus Christ shed His precious blood and died for my sin. I am willing to change and turn from my sin. I now invite Jesus Christ to come into my heart and life as my personal Savior.
"But as many as received him, to them He gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:" (John 1:12)
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And just like that the Tuberculosis pandemic is gone!
Cell tower collapsed ?? Was wondering why I couldn't call for pizza delivery AND a Korean massage ...
Jai
I know where you can get a good deal on a boat .. as long as you don't care if it floats anymore