Hurricane Irma 225 MPH GUSTS - Save Coral Bay, St John USVI

[@brandondunn4562]

Me and my family just visited St. John from Pennsylvania in 2023 six years after the hurricanes there. I could imagine it had to be one of the most terrifying experiences you all went through with Irma and Maria two weeks apart in 2017.

[@audreyrossi1778]

Wow. Sad, but great video that truly shows the strength, impact and residual devastation of Hurricane Irma. St. John is our magic place and we are there once or twice and year and will be back, hopefully in Spring. God bless you.

[@Supernova-lc2yf]

2:15 Watching blow in was cool af and also jeez those winds!! 3:30 Irma was a historic beast we wont see for atleast another 2 decades

[@marymcwright8980]

That is something to see. Unusually strange. Yet fascinating. Great footage. Thank you.

[@matthewregan5435]

Hey Josh, who's singing in the intro?

[@richarderrington9478]

Are they hurricane impact windows, laminated glass?

[@SPEC1ALSAUC3]

Wow I’m staying in sea grape and was curious how the storm looked on the island

[@GoshindoTanaka]

dude that was insane

[@kaamkic]

I know this video is old as hell but is it typical that people in USVI stay home during a huge hurricane like this?

[@benjaminbarlas7068]

Yes where else are we supposed to go?

[@benjaminbarlas7068]

And hurricanes like Irma aren’t typical to say the least

[@hughgreentree]

We were 18 miles west of you that day. It was no fun at all.

[@mattalley5064]

St John is too strong to be killed by a couple of hurricanes. It will recover. I cant wait to return and WILL do so, hopefully soon

[@tvold9204]

irma never got that strong but ok

[@JoshsDesk]

Really were u in the Virgin Islands when it happened,!? Cause i was!! 255 mph gusts most Def happened. love to know where YOU were....

[@tvold9204]

​@@JoshsDesk I was east of Naples FL for the storm... We didn't get hit as hard as yall but we were one of the worse hit areas. But, this is an easily googleable fact that you can just look up. Pulling numbers out of your ass makes you look dumb. The highest intensity irma reached was 180 (which is still absolutely mind-boggling to think about). I think you don't understand the correlation between mph and wind strength. 225 MPH winds would have ripped your home apart and killed you just from the force of the winds. Wind that strong have never occurred in any tropical cyclone (outside of gusts). The only landfalling tropical cyclones in the Atlantic to actually have those kinds of gusts at landfall were Dorian in 2019, and the 1935 labor day hurricane in Florida. And nothing has ever caused a 253 MPH Just do some research. I'm not downplaying your situation, I'm just saying your title is wrong.

[@jtidema]

@@JoshsDesk When people measure hurricane force, they usually use the 'sustained' winds. That may be why people get confused. A gust of 225 is insane and nothing to take lightly. But it is different than the sustained winds people can look up on record.

[@cruzanmongoose]

@@jtidema I was almost killed by hurricane Hugo September 17 1989 on St Croix USVI and let me tell you we got gust up to 220 MPH, it's the gusts that are the most damaging. It was the gusts that shredded our roof and brought down concrete walls that almost killed me my brother, mom and out German Shephard. If you place a playing card on a table and blow sustained wind it will stay in place, but if you blow harder in bursts it will blow away. so imagine getting sustained winds 0f 155 MPH and then all of a sudden you get a gust of 200+ MPH, it's insane power.

[@Tonychin6521]

Donate for you to live your dream. Nope

[@JoshsDesk]

I took all the money I collected and donated it. Just because that's something you might do, dosnt mean I would. Pls don't project sir.