Hurricane Frances- Ft. Pierce, FL September 4th, 2004
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- This chase was full of surprises! Actually, there were so many things that happened to us on this chase it would be way too much to type here, lol. Head on over to my website listed below and click on the Storm Chase Blog for 2004. Trust me, the read will be worth it!
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Incredible footage, Scott! Frances' extended landfall was a pain, but your shots were definitely worth it! Those night time transformer explosions were incredible!
In fact, I remember seeing a television program on hurricanes/tornadoes and in fact the people on the program said that an unanchored mobile home will tip over in winds of around only 70 miles per hour. At around 100 miles per hour, anchored mobile homes start peeling apart like tape being pulled off a window.
Yep! That's Mark in the beginning, and towards the end holding the anemometer, lol. Frances was quite a storm, and she seemed to last forever! Glad you enjoyed the vid!
Wow!! Insane surf there!!
What a sad sight to see that nice truck get crunched by the GMC sign!
Looks like you guys had an awesome chase out there!! Great footage Scott!!
Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!! Much appreciated!
@HERPTOLOGY44 Yes, that was the hurricane that NEVER ended!! lol....It was hard to condense all the video we shot. Thanks for watching!
Scott McPartland - Extreme Weather Photography sun of a gun sat on us, spinning for days, literally
I was in Jacksonville, Florida when Hurricane Frances happened. Me and my dad were returning home to Atlanta, Georgia on I-95 and it was jammed packed with evacuees. It was the worst storm I'd experienced in my lifetime for sure.
You ain't kidding!! Frances kept going and going. for a while there I thought she'd never end! LOL!
Great Frances video! Classic hurricane footage.
@HERPTOLOGY44 You're at the age I was when I first got obsessed with the weather! I was 13 back in 1985, and here I am over 25 years later chasing storms. And so will you one day!
Those were canned heat jars. You can purchase them at any catering hall/party shop. They really come in handy in times like this! Thanks for watching!
I've been documenting storms since 1986, and chasing hurricanes since 1991. Thanks so much for watching, much appreciated!
On the other hand, it seems that concrete block structure homes, especially those reinforced with steel rebar, can probably endure close to 200 miles per hour, as many did in the eye wall of Hurricane Andrew.
this was made september 4th 2009 i was born september 13th 2009 so right befor i was born 11 years ago this was filmed
Exactly. In the case of Andrew, only the strongest did survive that storm. Thank god your home had concrete blocks and more importantly, they were reinforced! That most certainly made all the difference there.
Hi Jim! Hi Mike! Yeah, Frances was the storm that went on FOREVER!! lol....Oh man, and then getting stuck in Daytona Beach on the way home due to the fact that we were all of of gas..ah memories, lol. Taught us to always bring extra gas with us that's for sure!
And yep, we sent Mark out in the frey to get those readings, lol.....he was soaked to the bone, and frozen solid by the end of it...hehehe
Hurricane molasses is what my dad and I call it
In fact, you'd even be right to say that 1:55-2:14 is the *exact* reason that I refuse to live in a flimsy mobile home in Florida. And especially since there are homes that are solid concrete block in my future home city of Fort Myers selling for even cheaper than a mobile home.
1:55-2:14 is the main reason I am absolutely *not*, under *any* circumstances whatsoever, living in a mobile home when I move to Florida.
The shot of George and Mark kneeling at 5:48 looks like they're offering up their cameras at a sterno altar...lol.
Thanks for watching!!
@triton115 You're right about that. Unanchored mobile homes tip over every easily in hurricane force winds. And they can be, and are torn apart very easily. Frances tore apart that mobile home park pretty efficiently, and the winds at the time were only strong tropical storm force at the time!
Yep, I remember that horrendous traffic on the I95 haha. Long long lines of cars. Thanks for watching
@seasprite305
Why, did Andrew do something to the reinforced concrete block house you were in?
HAHA yeah, we were starving at that point and busted out the sterno cans, cheap raviolis, and some MRE's. Then once our stomach's were full again, we were back out there filming!
CAChaser- That GMC lot was a bit south of Ft. Pierce, I believe it was near the town of Stuart if I'm not mistaken. And we had to hang out there for like 20 minutes before that sign finally fell! lol. I burned through a lot of video to get that shot.
Triton- I hear ya, lol...mobile homes plus hurricanes=BAD!
I was born that day!!! Wow.....
JinxTheWolf kid you no. I conceived a child that day I should have named him Francis
OMG! Me too!
i just decided to type 4 sep 2004... and this came up so i decied to watch what happened while i was being born
what a disater right?
Yep same exact day I was born! Just decided to look up what happened on my Bday cuz boredom
how did you make that makeshift stove?
@triton115 True...steel reinforced structures hold up MUCH better, even in category 4's and 5's. All though when you get to a category 5 storm, there's not much that can withstand those forces. Only the strongest of the strong will survive.
@triton115 I've seen so many of those flimsy mobile homes come apart in hurricanes. They really can't take much force at all. And Frances was only a Cat 2 hurricane! Imagine if it was a Cat 3 or 4. There would be nothing left at all.
@seasprite305
what did andrew do?
@HERPTOLOGY44 yes it's certainly been a long time since we've had a strong hurricane up this way, but it will happen again one day...who knows, maybe this will be the year.
@HERPTOLOGY44 Keep coresponding with the various chasers out there and then down the road, think about maybe going to school for it, if that's what you want to do. I don't have any formal training in meteorology but have been informally studying it for 25 years. Maybe write to the National Hurricane Center and see what they suggest!
@Scott McPartland What baffles me even further is how people even continue to put mobile home parks in areas that have allready been slammed head on by even a Category 4 or 5 hurricane. In Homestead, for example, Google Satellite shows at least a couple mobile home parks just east of US 1 between SW 328th Street and Campbell Drive! And Homestead took a direct hit by Hurricane Andrew in 1992! And there were entire mobile home parks that were just totally ripped to shreds by Andrew's violent winds! Same thing obviously happened in the Charlotte Harbor area during Hurricane Charley. Also, just four miles north of my new residence in Fort Myers, more mobile home parks, and some of the biggest I have ever seen before!
triton115 Agreed, not sure whey people keep insisting on building in these highly vulnerable areas, but they do. It's only a matter of time before something bad happens again.
Scott McPartland When you think about it, you're really supposed to build fixed-foundation concrete block structure houses, and preferrably with hipped roofs, not gable end roofs, in hurricane regions. Mobile homes are not built or even designed to resist hurricane winds. Not to mention innumerable mobile/manufactured homes also even have gable end roofs that catch wind like a sail, and not to mention those huge, wide overhangs that catch wind like an umbrella! Even right now, there's a brand new senior housing center being built right next door to my apartment complex, and truthfully, they were doing really well on the roof, until they started throwing in these roof bay room things in which the roof on those terminates with a gable end instead of a hip!
+Scott McPartland - Extreme Weather Photography Another thing I should mention too, most common, garden variety mobile homes also have shallow sloping, almost flat arched type roofs that will easily become like an airplane wing in a hurricane.
@HERPTOLOGY44 Oh yeah, I chase hurricanes too..my first one was Gloria in 1985 (I audio taped that one) then Bob in 1991, etc, etc... I have a bunch of my hurricane videos here on my TH-cam channel.
@HERPTOLOGY44 Then you can always informally study it and take it from there :) Either way, you have plenty of time to think about it.
@HERPTOLOGY44 Yep, I'm the same way too!! lol. Totally fascinated by them
@floridaroyalpalm lol...yeah, a bit on the dangerous side I will admit
i remember THAT shit. surprisingly bad
catcory 4 or its a catcory 5 not a cat 3 or 2 or 1