Meeting a Hurricane Survivor in VRChat

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I met a survivor of Hurricane Ida in VRChat. This is her story.

[@syrmor]

i like the way shes chilling in the chair

[@Azeal]

that took a while to set up lol

[@syrmor]

@@Azeal worth it

[@Tron1110]

Whats the characters origin? Also,ive been through hurricane irma when it was a cat 2 in Florida. it got close to st Petersburg and it was terrifying.

[@madialeader5150]

@@Tron1110 That character is from a game called Girls Frontline and her name is UMP 45. She and the other tactical dolls are named after the firearms they use.

[@Faucaux]

@@Tron1110 we in Tampa got some of it, thankfully my area was high ground

[@tortoise5083]

As a person who lives in hawaii, Hurricanes are seriously scary; however, my island has gotten very lucky in the past and most of them either miss the chain or dissipate after hitting big island. although i think that it's been so long since we've been hit we have one coming

[@C-DY]

Hope ya survive!

[@racerdog1018]

Bro I lived through a hurricane in Florida and it was terrifying I was in Florida at the time I was visiting my grandmother's place

[@jivananda108]

I have a feeling you live on Maui. If so… ho brah 🤙🏼

[@jackwhitley4496]

@@racerdog1018 i live here and its hell between july to september

[@tortoise5083]

@@jivananda108 nah. i live on oahu.

[@taskforceshion]

Hey, thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my story! It means a ton, and I really hope that this can bring hope to those unfortunate enough to be put into my situation. Nature's a bitch sometimes, best we can do is come together with those near us, and rebuild. Again, thanks for this opportunity, Azeal. 💛

[@Azeal]

Thanks for coming on, it was lovely to have you!

[@dreamtraveler6135]

hope your year gets better as of now irminia

[@avrowolf]

It's gotta suck living in low lying areas during hurricanes, especially if hurricanes aren't common in the area. I've driven through the aftereffects of hurricanes/tornadoes in my childhood (Ivan was the biggest one made direct landfall where I was (I was in between Mobile and Pensacola from 2003-2010; never evacuated from a hurricane) that I recall and us being in the furtherest parts that Katrina had dumped rain and some tornadoes)

[@jefffmolk9806]

Sucks that that happened to you but but butttttttttttttttttttttttt fallout new vegas makes things better

[@smartestmoronx19]

Just want to say, your mom was a genius taking out that window to equalize the pressure.

[@blanktm5231]

I lived Louisiana during Ida. I got less bad of it, but I still feel you, at least a little bit.

[@hypphen]

me too, we didnt have electricity for like 2/3 weeks for me

[@ArcaneSeason3]

Yeah me also, me and my family fled New Orleans days in advance when the warnings went out but my grandparents stayed behind. They’re okay now, but at the time we were scared out of our minds, especially my dad. We couldn’t get a hold of them for a while because communications in the city were down.

[@Azriel969]

i legit left my house to stay at friends during ida thinking id be safer there. luck have it i spent most of the hurricane huddled in an old shed accross the street after two trees went through the apartments. luckily no one was hurt but 8 people in a tiny shed for 11+ hours was not a great time. me and my buddy did run back to the apartments to grab a bunch of liquor tho so that made it a bit better

[@robertrodriguez-oz1xr]

Yeah same, as someone who had barely moved to NOLA in July of ‘21 from the PNW, I luckily was in place that somehow “only” had flooding, but it’s unbelievable seeing/hearing stories and videos of places that got hit so much worse, edit light flooding, like 1 foot at most, in my area

[@DiamondD-zc1eg]

I'm hella late but I was in Baton Rouge. The winds tore through the city, trees light poles just strewn be about. Holed up in the river center for a few days B4 having to reset my life in Houston TX. Lived outside with a bunch of immigrants sweating my life out and being devoured by mosquitoes the 1st 3 days B4 going to the river center.

[@g_g...]

I remember going through hurricane Irma and hurricane María back in Puerto Rico. After that night, everything around us was destroyed, even those very thick iron-like trees. Me and the neighborhood went without power for like around 7 months. I remember driving in between two mountains and seeing the ENTIRE mountain chopped off. As if the trees were shaved. It was a huge hurricane. It was a lot of work to survive the situation. We only had the food we kept. The whole street started working together to clear the way and we all helped each other with food. We socialized more, we had more reunions, we went outside more, we worked more, we made more friends, we got new hobbies and we learned new things. All living in a world without electric power. It was an interesting experience how everyone helped each other. There's a lot more detail to this whole story though. A lot of very intense moments too.

[@tatianaayala-delamatta5124]

BORICUA POR SIEMPRE!!!! 🇵🇷

[@Pandora_M4]

Puñeta ese Huracan nos jodio a todos.

[@leerman22]

Letting the water in is a good call, getting whatever you can out of the basement is another, then get a gas powered water pump in there asap. You just gotta be stoic about these things. Any drywall down there is just done.

[@konajohnson6182]

As someone who lived in South Florida during Hurricane Irma, I can say for a fact that this is perfectly accurate. I remember during Irma we all had to sleep in our closets and there were plenty of times where if the storm was bad enough, my mother would have us go into our bathroom or pantry (both in the middle of the house with no windows). After the storm was over, our whole neighborhood was trashed and we were out of electricity for close to two weeks. We were lucky our house didn’t get destroyed (roof needed replacing after though) but it took days for us to clean up all of the debris in our yard alone. It’s been a couple years since then and I still have days where I think about that whole ordeal and how scary it was.

[@Eminentharp]

I feel the beginning of this story is a hidden PSA that you really need to check the forecast often or when you get a severe weather alert. Just because the last dozen were false alarms shouldn't make you less vigilant. That's why some people are blindsided by tornadoes in tornado alley, complacency

[@sikorsky5815]

I was a person who lived near Corpus when Harvey hit in 2017. It was very close to the eye of the storm so the winds were well over 110+ mph. The scary part was the fact our house at the time was roughly 50-80 years old (I can't really pinpoint it) so all of the wood that made up the patio that was built onto it was old and very easy to bend as shown by Harvey. Luckily, perhaps incredibly, we made it out basically unscathed, though the yard was a moonscape from the wind taking all of the loose soil and plants off of the ground. Most notable thing we found after Harvey was a baby squirrel that had probably fallen out of a tree just beside our front door. It died after 2 days of us nurturing it in a Dr.Pepper box due to what I guessed was internal injuries from probably being thrown or hit by something very very very hard.

[@ProfessionalNon]

I remember being in the most current costliest hurricane, Hurricane Harvey- It was hell on fucking earth. Thankfully, I was in Katy at the time (I don't live in Katy anymore, we have moved :) ) it wasn't as bad there, but I remember having no school because of the floods. It was only cat 4, but I can imagine and even FEEL the pain that people went through. The lives lost, people- and I cannot emphasize this enough from the storm surge, praying for help to come as their houses slowly flooded and started to reach their neck. It didn't hurt so much because of the storm surge itself (Out of all the Houston cities, I think Katy was actually the least effected.) but, in fact a bunch of other things. My house was still intact, but the cost and flooding, not even the lives- just the injury and the scariness of Harvey is what brings me so much pain recalling it today. To add on, I was just a child when it hit, meaning that I was scared out of my life. I was positive in terms of recalling the event that I was sleeping in my parent's room frequently during that. P.S If you're worried, know that I've recovered from the hurricane. As stated earlier, this was a child and it was 5 years ago. No need to be worried about me anymore.

[@sparquinn]

I remember hurricane Sandy quite clearly cause even though where we lived wasn't hit too bad, we still had no power for 3 days. Once it was over with, my dad took me out to walk around the neighborhood and it was so eerie to see the powerless houses, broken powerlines, fallen trees, objects scattered all over the place, etc.

[@AJOlesen]

Nice to see another hurricane survivor. I was in Hurricane Katrina, but I was only 2 when I was in it, so it’s kinda nice to see what I went throw, even though it may be slightly different from this person’s story.

[@NathanDaNeko]

Hello hello! Your favorite mad man's back! Also, here's a fun fact: the world record for the fallout 4 speed run is 33 minutes and 56 seconds long!

[@Azeal]

Geez, Bethesda games are so broken lol

[@Mysticspoon]

This brought me back to 2017 where we experienced hurricane Irma and Maria. Maria wasn't as impactful, in fact it passed us but Irma was powerful. When we were notified of a hurricane coming we always had our radios on for it. They also said that this was way stronger than a category 5. I remember the night before it was supposed to arrive, we could hear the ocean from the hill over roaring. It brought the tides really high. Most houses here are built with concrete so there wasn't much foundation trouble but roofing and windows were a problem. It was so bad, the the wind pressure of the hurricane had car windows SMASHED. We actually went outside during the passing of the eye for a few seconds. What's crazy is that people took that opportunity to loot stores (loooting was a problem). But after the hurricane, there was flooding, lampposts were down and trees were bare of their leaves or just blown away. Places were messed up (some still aren't fixed.) And some people were unfortunately homeless because of the materials they built their houses with. My aunt and cousin included. We had some support from military after but of course no power or water for a good while other than wells and pipes (always crowded with people of course) and the mosquitos were relentless. I remember the neighbors sharing their generaror to charge our stuff. Tbh, that's the time for people to get to know their neighbors, much less even realize who lives close to them. Not many cars were driven as well so we took our bikes and rode around some parts of the island. It was really something. It took us over a year maybe two to get most of our stuff fixed. Where I live usually runs on tourism for revenue so this really made a bad impact. Anyway, it's hurricane season again but I just hope it goes smoothly.

[@GBM0n]

I lived through hurricane Maria, genuinely one of the most terrifying experiences I’ve had as a kid, it’s funnier that we barely got any help from the US at all. I didn’t have power for an entire year, and there are still people to this day affected by what happened in the hurricane. The Fallout 4 statement is genuinely pretty true!

[@deadeye4047]

Floridian here: Hurricanes are terrifying forces of nature. They are the strongest weather phenomena on Earth. I have seen healthy oaks split down the middle, and houses blown from their foundations. The thing that tells you that a hurricane is going to be especially problematic is hail, in my experience. I come from a strong-willed family, my dad's side would literally turn on the radio, pop in a cd or tape, listen to music, drink beer, and applaud and cheer at lightning and thunder. Yes, I was one of them, but I was a kid, so they got Root Beer for me. Those... were Cat. 3s. As soon as the hail came to play, they'd tuck tail and bolt inside. We were crazy, I still am. The aftermath is always surreal, Cat. 2s and up. Rubble and tree branches everywhere, the odd displaced or overturned vehicles. The worst are the families just gathered in front of what used to be their house and everyone is just feeling their individual emotions... that's the worst.

[@StonedHunter]

I've been told that my family had to park under a bridge during a tornado when I was about two. I don't remember anything about it but just thinking about it whenever i hear about what others have gone through makes me so thankful for that fact.... I'm so sorry you had to go through that and I really hope your mom can heal.

[@punishedghost4970]

When we survived a tornado that blew past our town it sure did give a post-apocalyptic feeling to it. The grey skies added a sense of dread.

[@Forcoy]

Blame global warming.

[@unknown20005]

i have never experienced something like this person did and i count my blessings for that but i have seen videos and heard other’s stories about people losing everything in storm’s and i feel for them all one day i will hopefully be one of those people who help rebuild after such deviation and dig injured people out of the rubble to save there lives

[@emii030]

i remember hurricane Erma, it was my first and still the only hurricane that ive experienced that i can remember, i watched it take down trees from my front yard and wading in the foot or so of water that the storm had left behind when the eye was passing over my area. i absoloutley love storms so going through Ida was really cool for me minus the destruction it had left behind.

[@uzzi_gg]

I can relate, at least a bit, I live in Puerto Rico and we had to deal with Hurricane Maria, it tore across Puerto Rico (both urban and rural areas) as a category 4 hurricane back in September of 2017, it was quite awful, but us Puerto Ricans stood up and kept going for a better future, no matter how much damage the hurricane caused 🇵🇷

[@IvanKP_97]

I'd say you had, and still have, it way worse. More than 3 million or so people have left the island for the mainland US since Maria, and you still have rolling blackouts and crumbling infrastructure that has been in disrepair for over 5 years now. I live in a state that was hit hard by Hurricane Sally in September 2020. In less than 2 years our coastal infrastructure is almost completely repaired, and even expanding with new projects. As a mountainous and remote island, Puerto Rico may be a logistical nightmare, but the federal government completely mismanaged getting resources to you and did a bare minimum of saving face until the media coverage died down and most of us mainlanders went back to forgetting our little colony in the Caribbean even exists. That kind of shit doesn't happen in any of the states, and I really find that double standard shameful.

[@Forcoy]

Blame global warming for these events becoming more extreme.

[@yashjoseph3544]

@@Forcoy Except that's not the case. The frequency and intensity of hurricanes is shown to not be increasing.

[@bise_moon]

we've been experiencing a lot of damaging hurricanes down here in Louisiana. one of the most recent of which knocked a major tower into the river of our city. we have been very lucky to not get hit by the worst of these hurricanes, but i've seen photos of places that weren't so lucky and it's horrible seeing people lose their homes, belongings, livelihoods, and even their lives. i'm a pretty paranoid person in some cases so i'm scared that i'll experience what the person in this video experienced one day, but right now i can just be glad that all the ones i experience only kill the power and knock down the trees

[@clawedmoss9030]

Damn, having your house flooded is something that is scary. It happened to me years ago but due to the lay of the land we were lucky it only was covering our floor. I hope you dont have to go through that again Irma.

[@tristanfarmer9031]

Sending virtual hugs if anyone needs any! I hope things get better for you!

[@iba8210]

I was in this hurricane and we lost power in my area for nearly half a month, streets were flooded and powerlines were in some of the waters making it super dangerous to people who were in the area to fix it. Having a gas stove made me really realize how much a hot meal can keep moral up even in 100F+ degree weather.

[@panjack_]

Irma is a really nice nickname, sorry you went through it, but I’m glad we all could hear your story

[@Soggy_Speggetti]

I used to live in Okinawa Japan and it was basically expected to be hit by multiple typhoons yearly so all of the buildings and houses were made from concrete. To me at least it feels almost unreal to hear these kinds of stories since these events would happen so often that everyone was always prepared for them

[@kingdipshiz]

I understand man. My house was taken by a fire. The town almost went to but the hard working fire fighters stoped it.

[@SchwarzSSB]

As someone who lives in Central illinois(the hellhole of weather, we can go through the 4 natural disasters in 1 week) I've had my house flooded before and it was a kinda a new experience for me. My family had been renting a house for close to 3 years at this point and September 9, 2020 will be a day I will remember, the whole town flooded, I live near a creek and I had never seen it go past the backyard fence until that day. Our whole downstairs was covered to our ankles in sewage because a pipe broke. Y'know those photos of a manhole cover floating because of water? I saw that with my own eyes. We're okay now but it was insane but not as insane as that lol.

[@Spook_Boi]

i live in tornado alley, but i got lucky in the fact that my town is above an abandoned coal mine (kinda scary ngl cuz my aunts place is slowly sinking) as well as an underground aquifer (when my mom was a teen she found out that you could use it to get to different towns in the area fairly quickly by accessing it via the abandoned mines) and tornados dont like going over water.

[@sp00k_e95]

I actually live fairly close to this area. It feels like the storms are getting worse and worse every few years. First Sandy. Then Ida. We have flooding very often. I have been unfathomably lucky to always be on high ground.

[@Azeal]

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[@turbochad69]

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[@tohru-adachi-true-legit-real]

Love your content man, thanks for giving people a platform for their storys.

[@pgclean7299]

Good job Irma… good job…

[@mediocreMorpheus7795]

as a person who lives in Puerto Rico, and survived Hurricane Maria, this brought back many unpleasant memories, But also, I feel very connected with this person because I know EXACTLY what they went through beat by beat.

[@doritojesus9844]

I know this isnt as bad as some hurricane stories, but my dad was in miami for a business trip during irma, and had to drive for 48 hours straight. I was very scared

[@valkyrierose147]

Azeal when you bring people here it brings true light to these peoples past and trauma or even just stories of ghosts or bounty hunting you are one of my favorite KZbinrs to watch as it brings joy to Me to hear these stories and hear these problems I have a story I'd like to tell to you you don't even have to post a video of it just want to tell you it as I've never said anything about it as I fear saying it but I hope I can I friended you on discord keep making these vids your amazing thanks for reading this-lila loshira of the gaming loli channel

[@Dr_Monitor]

Hurricanes are a part of life down here in the South (specifically Texas). Both Hurricane Harvey and the big freeze we had last year were pretty special in terms of severe weather. Oh, and fun fact about the freeze, it got so cold at one point (and to prove just how unprepared people on the Gulf Coast actually are when it comes to below freezing temperatures), I almost froze to death in my own bed. Bundled under so many layers of clothing and blankets, the temperature inside the house dropped so far I was close to frostbite and legitimately could not function I was so cold.

[@galacticbananastopmotions7292]

As another hurricane survivor I can relate to Irma a lot. Back in 2012 me and my family lived close to the shore in new jersey when Hurricane Sandy hit. My mom thought that it would just blow over and me and my brother were younger so we stayed at home. It lasted I think a week or two but trees and powerlines had been knocked into the water blocking all the roads. Our area was at a low altitude so we flooded really bad. We lost power and had to stay upstairs. Basicly our whole area was just being destroyed while we were stuck with no way out. For us we never had the coast guard or national guard come save us in helicopters or boats because most people already left. Luckily our house wasn't completly destroyed but the sight after it all ended was really sureal. After the hurricane had mostly ended, walking out of the flooded house was like walking into a completly different world. Like Irma said it looks like a nuclear wasteland, with the sirens and stuff still going off it was the creepiest thing I have ever seen. Everyone else had made the smart desicion to leave so the whole area was just empty of anyone, we didn't see anyone for weeks. It really felt like a nuke had went off outside, and we only survived by chance. It was just so hard to comprehend that this was real.I have since moved away from there but even 10 years later the areas around their haven't fully recovered.

[@Quebber]

Sorry that you had to deal with that but thank you for doing this so we can understand what it's like.

[@-DukeFishron]

Fun fact: There was a guy who got thrown by a tornado 1300 feet and survived cause he got knocked out by a object thrown before he was picked up and thrown and the medics said " His body was so relaxed " something about not tensing so no fatal damage or something and didnt even break a single bone.

[@mattguy1773]

I wish hurricanes weren’t as common as they were It’s so terrifying

[@crapiefoods432]

So I guess every floridian should be in this video

[@nhodges312]

Yeah, get ‘em about yearly lol

[@flixical2624]

And every New Orleans citizen!

[@loweffortspeedster]

he said central jersey and it immediately snapped me out of a subconcious trance. huh. made me remember that hurricane ida was the reason why our mom got into such a long debate with insurance companies, she's a businesswoman.

[@tatianaayala-delamatta5124]

"Anybody who has experienced this" Me: *cries in Floridian*

[@somerandommen]

Same...

[@edorasmarauder5761]

Lol same

[@breadcrusader8655]

I knew flooding was bad, didn’t know it that bad. I’ve never been in a disaster but I’ve been close to them Hell man at least you made it

[@PikaPetey]

Hey i was in that storm! I was drving back from boxing gym and watching the water rise on the other side of the concrete barrier. Wouldve drowned in my car if i was 15 minutes later. Wild stuff

[@Azeal]

Whoa, that's intense o.0

[@PikaPetey]

@Azeal yeah I didn't realize the danger I was in until after I got back to my apartment; which was situated on a hillside so I was spared from the flood. Getting back was scary! I never had saw that amount of rain sustained for that long. It was wild!

[@2406west]

I'm from Louisiana and took a hit from Ida when it was at its strongest category wise and can confirm it was the worst hurricane ive ever experienced and I was here for Katrina

[@fluxshaman8251]

I lived in Florida for like 20 years of my life, worst we ever got hit by a hurricane was the time one dropped a tree on my mom's little Mustang. I'd say we've been pretty lucky, we only evacuated once in my memory

[@sillyman2013]

I was hit by Ida, when it went straight to Louisiana from the ocean. There wasn’t any damage other then some branches falling, but I was left without power for like a week. That week felt extremely long.

[@LittleGoldRose]

I lived through Katrina luckily We evacuated so we were in the clear. Everyone else though… it was horrific. If anyone has ever played The Division you know the Dark Zone where you see the those strange markings on the Doorways into Apartments? They got that from what happened after Katrina. They are called Search Codes or Katrina Crosses It tells you which Search Team investigated the area, Time and Date, and the hazards and horrors found and finally how many Dead were found inside. The damage was catastrophic, thousands missing and presumed dead, rescues being conducted daily. I feel for her truly.

[@Milky22452]

hurricanes are terrifying I'm in Texas and during hurricane Harvey I saw all the destroyed homes on tv because thankfully I didn't get it really bad my street flooded but no body lost their home on my street it was still pretty scary though being scared that you might run out of something that may be food water power anything and that we could maybe lose the house was terrifying.

[@bubblesnbubbly]

im in jersey too so this hit hard. im pretty sure I remember the time this storm was trending on twitter and showed a jersey mall ive been to flooded. I cant imagine what you've been through im so sorry.

[@MoonNightAria]

As someone who has lost 4 homes to hurricanes, god the trauma is accurate.

[@kirbykona]

I'd speak of my story of how. My senior year of highschool(this past year btw, and yes despite everything that had happened to me. I still graduated) But for the most part I don't think my family would want me to expose the paper work of the hospital my dad stayed in when he had covid. I wouldn't mind sharing a bit more of it! It's...hard to really be happy knowing what could have happened.

[@fennefox257]

I feel like I'm a bit lucky with hurricanes as where I live we're usually relatively prepared since we tend to get hit a fair bit, also the place I'm at is further in land. Can definitely see how they can be scary though, especially the water levels. (also on a side note, nice UMP45 avatar, I kind of want one but not sure where to go about getting one)

[@mattsena7708]

I'm inland Canada so never experienced a hurricane, but tornadoes, blizzards and ice storms have caused so much damage to communities including my own. Mother nature can be incredibly scary

[@heirapparent4872]

I’m re-building the whole Fallout Mash-Up pack so this is a good episode

[@summers2007]

in Florida we have hurricanes allll the time not as bad tho mostly just wind and rain no floods really depending on were you are. in Brevard your a-ok most of the time.

[@A3319]

I live in the Caribbean, luckily hurricanes have been missing my country a lot recently. But those hurricanes still hit other islands, and one day our luck will probably run out again.

[@TheCptnOfFail]

I walked through my grandmothers neighborhood after it was wiped out if a wildfire, and I remember thinking "The real world should not look like fallout." It's bizarre how... indescribable it is. There was just a hill of holes where houses were, and a terrible smell.

[@EllipsisMark]

Anyone went through the The Flood of 2016 in Louisiana. It was crazy. We've had Hurricanes that caused damaged but at least there were forewarning. 2016, nothing, then the rain came.

[@Beam-jo6sb]

my town floods almost annually, and destroys virtually every business downtown. no buildings collapse, but cars, or other itmes left out were gone. i live uptown, so i just have to face the risk of wind damaging things. the flooding has taken cars before, i remember one time i went downtown to check out the flood to see how bad it was, and there was atleast 5 floating cars, some flipped cars, a car smashed through a building... even that was terrifying, i dont think i could imagine this.

[@floofyyy]

I remember going through hurricane irma, and it was honestly more miserable than it was scary. It was hot af and I literally ate nothing but puffcorn and cookies n creme poptarts. I remember being up til like 2-3 AM alot because it was so hot, and i just played on my brothers gameboy because i had this little headlamp. Our house was supposedly built to sustain hurricanes, but it was something i never want to experience again. This person certainly got a worse hurricane than us, so i feel that the hurricane i went through was most definitely ‘tamer’ than the one this person went through.

[@FelixTheCutie]

One time when a hurricane hit, my house walls started shaking. Bro that was seriously scary-

[@PortgasDAce-mh5jg]

As someone from Louisiana some of our more southward towns and cities were just devastated. Where I live there wasn’t an open hotel room because of how bad it was forecast and some of those people stayed in those hotels for months. Then there were cities that were just destroyed. Lake Charles was flattened and I believe it was gulf point that is that wiped off the map.

[@PortgasDAce-mh5jg]

oh and New Orleans got pretty banged up too

[@PortgasDAce-mh5jg]

Oh also also insurance purposefully undervalued property damage so that they didn’t have to pay for anything and fema wasn’t much better with their rampant incompetence

[@PortgasDAce-mh5jg]

I had absolutely no idea that flooding even reached that far in its track. to think that it was still washing away buildings and damaging communities that far up its path is wild. Goes to show how dangerous big wind twirlies are

[@PortgasDAce-mh5jg]

Overall hurricane Irma was a bitch 3/10

[@theCombine25343]

As someone who also lives in Louisiana, I can say that the hurricanes here are pretty bad. However, I don't experience them to the full effect because I live in the central-east part of the state. Nice to see another louisianan (is that even a word? I'll check later.) here though.

[@Mr.b0nes]

This story just tells how absolutely insane it is our species isn’t extinct

[@Octaviaxwx]

Litteraly the opposite of my hurricane Irma experience. My area also got flooded but our houses don't have basements and are built to wistand floods. I remember catching fish right from my house and it was super cool. I do feel really bad knowing what other people have to go through with these kinds of things.

[@joesbisa4229]

I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana and my birthday is the day of Katrina I can remember sitting in an attic as my brother and dad took turns cutting a whole in the roof with an axe, as the water rose to the to the roof and higher

[@Techno_Idioto]

I was only 4 when Katrina hit, and my family was one of the lucky few that lived in a more elevated and levee-protected area of the New Orleans Metro Area, even though we evacuated regardless. I hope you and your family are safe and healthy after Katrina and Ida, and may the odds be ever in our favor this year...

[@mrnemo204]

Hurricane Irma 2017. I can relate to this experience

[@Azeal]

Oof, wishing you the best

[@theabomb8305]

It sucks as a person who lives in South Mississippi just seeing how people from other parts of the US aren’t ready for hurricanes. Including houses, like we have to have strict building codes for hurricanes. The way she talks feels a lot like how Some people talk about Katrina.

[@lazarstreams9824]

Basically all of my family lives in Florida and they get rocked all the time, I'M IN TORNADO VALLEY HERE never had one directly hit but my family in Florida gets hit tons

[@jacobpugpoirier3350]

18:37 nah, but threshold every president tho. "Damn, that's tough. Bye now!"

[@jacobpugpoirier3350]

That's and threshold, Gregory the sameword . Guess what auto correct thought that exaggerate comma. Immunity it's on omg

[@cupit916]

Also in NJ, when Sandy hit, we didn’t have electricity for over a week. School was out for 3 days, I think it was late fall because Halloween activities were POSTPONED a few days because of the hurricane. Hurricanes hate NJ.

[@Skibidibugs]

This reminded me of when my city (Campbell,CA) when a tsunami happens in Japan they play a weather alert on the TV incase it spreads to sanfransico wich is an hour away and has a really big airport so yea they play the alerts for us and for sanfransico they play a actual siren and put the golden gate bridge under lockdown

[@garrettmcmurry1436]

From Louisiana and I can confirm it was like fallout 4. I always told people it was like Mad Max out here

[@shyeskyeskyeksye]

my brother got extremely sick around this time so my parents had to stay with him and the hospital started flooding but only around a couple inches, not nearly as bad as what happened here. but my parents had to stay with him so I would switch grandparents houses basically every day until he got better to come home. probably one of the worst months for my family.

[@dency6640]

im down here in texas, back in 2017 i experienced and survived hurricane harvey the cat 4 hurricane. it was seriously chaos

[@BaconBalling]

as a person who has had my family hunker down in our house in florida you know that one that hit florida just a little bit back in like 2018 it was a very scary few weeks at this point i didn’t have anything not even a phone it was a very boring but scary experience but thankfully not much happened

[@ineedpie683]

I lived through Hurricane Sandy while living in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. I lived right on the water, but not on the beach. Was pretty scary, and by the time we realized how powerful the storm was, evacuating was not possible. Somehow my house was the only on in the neighborhood to not flood, and the neighborhood across the water caught fire, this is really ironic since all the firefighters left to fight that fire and then the fire station burnt down. The days following were ever more scary since there was a ton of looters. Over the next couple weeks the whole area went over marital law.

[@somerandommen]

Weird that being a hurricane survivor is considered uncommon to most people... where I'm from almost everyone is and it's just a fact of life.

[@folkloricone2449]

as a Floridian I can say we don't get house collapse bad cause we don't have basements but it can get horrible on the coast if its a direct hit but usually my area is ok my house wasn't flooded for 42 years since it was built but in Ian we got almost a foot inside and had to wade through the water to a higher main road but it pretty much normal now but alot of people had to move and many are screwed financially.

[@bonsaibnuuy]

I have the most absurd luck when it comes to hurricanes. I live in Port Charlotte, right at the edge between it and North Port, and we got hit pretty hard by the eye wall of Ian earlier this year; had been almost six hours that it stalled over our area. Places around the city and in other cities close by (like Ft. Meyers, Punta Gorda, and Cape Coral especially) were functionally leveled (I remember hearing that some places might as well have been, like Cape Coral), but meanwhile where my house was JUST so happened to be right on the edge of the wall. We got, like, next to zero damage to the house, which is especially surprising considering places literally across the street from us were caved in by trees. I have this weird feeling of safety even during natural disasters that keeps me sane because I think I'm so conditioned by my hurricane luck that it just feels like another storm to me at this point, even though it's pretty damn clear it isn't. But I gotta say, having lived in Florida my whole life, the aftermath of hurricanes is always baffling to see. This time around, I wasn't at home, so I wasn't there when it was in process, but my dad had taken videos of the sound from the wind and let me tell you when they say tornadoes and hurricanes sound like a train, they aren't even remotely joking. The video didn't really sound real, and it might be a bit insensitive but I kinda wish I was there to hear it. As I got home though, it had been the first real time I'd ever seen, like, a full aftermath in-person, because usually hurricanes don't really hit my area that hard and usually go a bit further south or north of us. It looked like a warzone. Trees were stripped down to the bark, I'd seen a bunch of cut-up chunks all along the road, trees that had been up since I was a little kid that I'd pass by on the way to school were all toppled in a row and the stumps were torn out of the ground. I didn't really see any destroyed houses because by the time I was home, most houses roofs had already been tarped over and, again, we weren't hit that hard compared to places like Ft. Meyers, but I had looked at weather outlets and seen videos of places that I'd been being completely levelled. When they give the comparison to Fallout 4, and walking around in that intro after you wake up, they're right. It's absurd.

[@pooppoop7896]

this comment is 2 months old but i live in port charlotte too!! my house had killer roof damage, you could walk into the garage and see the light poking through, because it was just a hole. an entire hole just in our roof. there were several houses a few roads over that had the roofs ripped CLEAN off. nothing left. it was horrifying i also felt like i was lucky with hurricanes, the only real one that kind of hit us that i remember was irma. not NEARLY on the same scale, but our house had like 0 damage and my grandparents never even lost power. we didn't evacuate because we didn't think there would be enough time, so most of it was spent us 4 people in a small "walk in" closet. it sounds dumb but i genuinely feared for my life when i went out of the closet and overlooked the dresser that was sort of blocking us in. (we were in a closet that goes off of a hallway connected to my parent's bedroom. in the bedroom, there is a big sliding glass door going out to the back and we live on a canal. if you go outside of the closet and look to your left, you can see the backyard and a bit of the canal). anyways, i go out of the closet and i see our heavy as fuck boat flip over twice in the air as if it was nothing. i had to literally drag in the mattress we had just outside and hold it over our heads because shortly after it sounded like our roof was genuinely going to be ripped off its hinges. anyways, sorry for rambling on your old comment here, just that I don't know people who are in port charlotte and had that weird experience. like, having that luck and suddenly seeing just... complete destruction. i hope all is well for you now

[@James-2248]

I will never forget that night

[@itstgthesmokingpegasus5416]

I survived hurricane Irma and it was a cat 5 and we were in the eye of the hurricane and our neighbors had small chunks of their roofs torn off but our neighborhood was older houses with thick metal frames that were very durable but we had to get our camper hooked up to a generator because we had no power for 2 or 3 weeks and we had to snorkel our truck just so we could buy food and gas without flooding the engine and it was devastating to many houses and killed many people and we just got lucky I guess because some people had it way worse and had the entire house under water

[@derrickcarpenter8297]

hurricane ivan, katrina, and sally was the worst ones ive been through. hurricane katrina almost wiped biloxi MS off the map

[@solerkiper1912]

Here in main it’s really chill

[@themysteriousfew3234]

bro ik how that feels cus i survived through a hurricane like that too

[@GraveyardGhoul98]

i don't live in a hurracane zone but i can only imagine how scary it would be to deal with flooding high winds maybe even twisters glad your doing better but i'm sure the next evac is called your gonna be first on the road

[@AshtonSnapp]

I live in Louisiana. 2020 sucked ass. We had two hurricanes, one after the other: Ida and Delta if I recall.

[@Techno_Idioto]

Laura, Delta, and Zeta hit in 2020. Laura and Delta struck the same area, while Zeta swept most if not all of Southern Louisiana. Cheers from New Orleans.

[@cizzl]

i remember that wasnt effected by it but tornado warnings were scary

[@neosstuff]

Interesting video lol I live in the UK where we don't get them do kinda cool to hear it in a first person perspective

[@DAC936]

Finally a place I could probably afford to live!

[@flixical2624]

Damn. We got Ida here in New Orleans - shit sucked. Didn’t know it got to New Jersey.

[@thezambambo2184]

I can't remember the name of the town, but somewhere down south, there's a town that was devastated by a storm, to the point the locals....regressed to a degree, the backwater of the backwater, there's a mockumentary about it by the same name

[@dragosh3073]

Love the GFL Avatar tho

[@qs-ii1872]

I once had four tornados drop down in one day. Oklahoma vibes.

[@TheTimbs_]

At least it didn’t look like fallout 1.

[@bekkatheman]

My entire street lost its trees when Sandy hit.

[@Razziquet]

When I was born It was during hurricane katrina and got the last plane out before the airport closed.

[@Azeal]

Oh shit, glad you were safe

[@Razziquet]

@@Azeal Thanks.

[@kiko955]

I live in New Orleans Ida was still rough to say the least.

[@sethjohnfroe1412]

It sucked being in Southern Louisiana during ida

[@Techno_Idioto]

Big damn facts..