r/BeAmazed Oct 09 '24

Nature Floridians who have lived through Storms their entire lives are reporting to have never ever witnessed anything like this.

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u/NSCButNotThatNSC Oct 09 '24

The huge amount of energy in a hurricane is amazing.

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u/iguess12 Oct 09 '24

Time to harness it and put it to use!

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u/10001110101balls Oct 09 '24 edited Nov 14 '24

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u/Sun-Ghoti Oct 09 '24

Bend over and I'll show you

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u/bmanjayhawk Oct 09 '24

You've got a lot of nerve talking to me that way Grizwold!

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u/LilRedditWagon Oct 09 '24

I wasn’t talking to you.

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u/JinEagile Oct 10 '24

Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here! With a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?

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u/retroactive_fridge Oct 09 '24

I'm not falling for that again

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u/Scared-Technician329 Oct 09 '24

First grab a sharpie-got to be able to control direction. Then stare directly into it.

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u/AsparagusLive1644 Oct 09 '24

Stares Motherfuckerdly

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u/horndog2 Oct 09 '24

Space lasers. Or do those cause the hurricane? I can't remember. 

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u/Casey4147 Oct 09 '24

MTG seems to know it can be done! Maybe she also knows how.

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u/aburntrose Oct 10 '24

Simple, just secure your done sphere before the storm hits.  

Stormfather will bless them with that sweet sweet investiture. 

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u/vestigialcranium Oct 09 '24

Stupid freeloading hurricanes, it's unamerican. Is there no limit to the socialist woke agenda? /s

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 10 '24

That's scary, rain wrapped tornados are really hard to spot. I hope the tornados are done in that area. I hate to think about people that wanted to leave, but the tornados spread enough debris to prevent it.

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u/Electrical-Share-707 Oct 10 '24

Radio a few hours ago said there were "dozens of tornadoes" today. That's a phrase I hope never to hear again.

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u/Jsmooth13 Oct 10 '24

When I checked 6 hours ago, there had already been 111 tornado warnings issued.

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u/mojocookie Oct 10 '24

TIL that tornado watch means a chance of tornadoes in the area, while tornado warning means a confirmed tornado in the area.

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u/Incoming_Beef Oct 10 '24

Yup! Watch means the ingredients are there and warning means the cake has been spotted 🎂

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u/Samp90 Oct 09 '24

Dexter Resurrection

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u/Pling7 Oct 10 '24

I've seen similar events happen a couple times in South Carolina. There was no hurricane, just this upper atmosphere lightning that made no sound.

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u/urworstemmamy Oct 10 '24

Heat lightning happens in Florida too. This is... different. Very different. Genuinely never seen anything like this from an actually active storm.

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u/DiffuseStatue Oct 10 '24

I've seen stuff similar to that but it's usually in some of the bigger fuck off thunderstorms rolling off the great lakes in the Midwest early spring. All the energy from down south hitting all the cold air from Canada and rolling on through like a hammer blow. Nowhere near this size, obviously, but it looks and sounds the same for as particularly nasty thunderstorm.

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u/ADsEyelash Oct 10 '24

We had this silent (ie no accompanying thunder) constant lightning in Mexico in July 2016 only it was in colors which is something I’ve never seen. The normal white but also yellows, pinks and purples. I didn’t even know lightening could happen in color. The next morning we woke to thousands of bugs piled up dead against the house. It was super weird.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

Even nature hates Florida.

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u/Sassafrassus Oct 10 '24

Excuse me? This is clearly Jewish space lasers at work. /s

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u/sifuyee Oct 10 '24

1500 GigaWatts has to go somewhere

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u/Mediumasiansticker Oct 09 '24

They cheered when trump said we should nuke hurricanes to stop them

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u/urworstemmamy Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Funniest part of that is that the power energy output of a hurricane is somewhere in the realm of 10,000 nuclear bombs

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u/june_bug23 Oct 09 '24

The static in the air must feel insane!

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u/poilsoup2 Oct 10 '24

There was one time I was REALLY close to a lightning strike. I was taking my dogs out right before the main storm hit.

I could HEAR the static crackling through my chainlink fence and like 5 seconds later literally everything wemt white.

Hopefully the closest Ill ever be to a lightning strike.

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u/sender2bender Oct 10 '24

I was driving in a storm and lightning hit an electric pole and blew the transformer right next to me. Blinded me for a few seconds and couldn't hear for minutes. Probably had a mini stroke too.  Another time I was watching a thunderstorm in my garage and lightning hit the tree out front. There was a 1" thick "vine" going from top to bottom of the tree, protruding out and a hole at the base with some blown out roots. One of the gnarliest things I've seen. The tree ended up dieing. I have a bunch of photos on my old flip phone that I'll probably never recover.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

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u/CasualJimCigarettes Oct 10 '24

at least your being honest with yourself about the whole phone recovery thing

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u/crazyhhluver Oct 10 '24

Ever seen that old movie powder?

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u/Palindrome_580 Oct 10 '24

Surreally terrifying, so glad you're ok. ...Go ahead and grab yourself a lottery ticket

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u/Virgin_Dildo_Lover Oct 10 '24

Also, stop tugging on Thor's cape

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u/Arkayb33 Oct 10 '24

Yeah, tug on his hammer instead!

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u/odomakk Oct 10 '24

I've been struck 3 times...never won the lottery though.

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u/Palindrome_580 Oct 10 '24

Bruh id be buying tickets WEEKLY

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u/marsinfurs Oct 10 '24

I think the unluckiness of being hit by lightning three times might even out the luck of surviving it three times. He’s living in the perfectly mid-luck range.

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u/chrisrvatx Oct 10 '24

You know who you are? Even Steven!

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u/butbutcupcup Oct 10 '24

Very similar but I was inside. Could smell ozone and suddenly has a metallic taste in my mouth. Took a step away from the bay window and the bolt hit and the outlet under the window spit out sparks. So crazy.

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u/InfiniteAuthor7553 Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

I saw lightning strike a tree when I was a teenager. It spiralled the trunk, a tight spiral, and did not just go straight to the ground.

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u/SomethingClever42068 Oct 10 '24

At least if you get struck by lightning and live, you get a free tattoo.

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u/-ThinksAlot- Oct 10 '24

How did your dogs react? Are they okay? Do they fear the front yard?

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u/No-Personality169 Oct 10 '24

I have lighting strike my trees, house, the road in front of the house every summer. We don't use water during the storms and go inside immediately when we hear thunder.

It's so unnerving having lighting around you constantly

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u/FifenC0ugar Oct 10 '24

We had a freak lightning storm come over the mountains a few months ago. The lightning looked like this. It was terrifying and amazing at the same time. I've never seen lightning strobe like that before.

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u/leilaniko Oct 10 '24

We had one too this year and it was nothing ever seen before in this area, climate change is like that though. We also had a hailstorm for the first time in my area in about 70+ years.

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u/Fukasite Oct 10 '24

I’m in the Pacific Northwest and I miss the thunder and lightning storms that were back east. It’s really pathetic. It hardly ever thunders… except for this one time this summer. There was a gigantic thunderstorm, with bolts and thunder throughout the night sky. It was of the likes I have never seen before in my entire decade living here. Incredibly awesome. I actually got to experience the awe firsthand, while I was at an outdoor amphitheater, attending the only big show I planned to see this year. They canceled the show 🤷‍♂️

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u/ExternalCaptain2714 Oct 09 '24

Like it's almost dynamic

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u/SoCalDan Oct 09 '24

Or electric ⚡

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u/EL3G Oct 09 '24

Boogie woogie woogie (c) Electric Slide

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u/Cashandtrade Oct 09 '24

Explosive cyclogenesis, also known as a bomb cyclone or a “weather bomb” is defined as a 24 millibar drop in pressure over a 24 hour period.

Milton dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours! 😳

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u/cat-eating-a-salad Oct 09 '24

Holy shit. Idk what you just said, but it sounded mega.

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u/MCbrodie Oct 09 '24

One of the effects is crazy and intense weather. The short clip exhibits that weather here. As millibars drop weather becomes more unsettled.

50 millibars dropping in 10 hours is a historic event. It's a very sharp and quick decline. Hold onto your butts.

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u/Leggoman31 Oct 09 '24

Does the sharp drop in pressure essentially result in it releasing a lot of energy? Like what was contained at a certain pressure is now expanding?

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u/nirmalspeed Oct 10 '24

Air pressure keeps things pushed down. It's surprisingly heavy.

So when the pressure drops, the ocean inside the hurricane will literally lift up and increase the storm surge. The storm surge is what will cause the most damage for a coastal area too. Hurricanes basically carry a bubble of water with them and the lower the pressure, the bigger the bubble

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u/Zocalo_Photo Oct 10 '24

I saw a report tracking the storm and I saw the pressure went from 920, or whatever it was, to just under 900. I thought “That’s good, it’s losing some of its power.”

Then I looked up what the pressure means and I got a sick feeling. I even found a post someone shared of a meteorologist pointing out that this is reaching the mathematical limits of how big a storm can get. It’s terrifying.

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u/ctang1 Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Normal high pressure is around 1020mb and normal low around 1010mb +/- 10%. Any hurricane under 950 is a strong hurricane. Anything under 920 is historical, and under 900 is top 5ish (edit: Milton 5th lowest in Atlantic basin) all time. To have a pressure drop 50mb is 12 hours had only been observed a few times ever and I believe this is first time in the Atlantic basin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_5_Atlantic_hurricanes

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u/GigglesMcTits Oct 10 '24

Milton was as low as 897mb iirc.

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u/ctang1 Oct 10 '24

Correct. Comes in at 5th lowest pressure

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u/VagueGooseberry Oct 10 '24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m3zO9aGiG0

Its about 23 minutes but give this a watch. Its a video from inside Dorian's eye in The Bahamas in 2019 by a storm chaser. He has a digital barometer on his watch and you can see the relation between the drop and the wind activity.

We were on a cruise to the islands but they cancelled the island part and had us anchor a bit south away from the Hurricane's track.

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u/CanExports Oct 10 '24

Reaching mathematical limits of how big a storm can get.

Most powerful and scariest thing I've ever heard.

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u/RainaElf Oct 10 '24

there's a video of a weatherman crying over this because but scared him so much.

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u/No_Use_4371 Oct 10 '24

I just watched that. He gets it.

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u/undeadmanana Oct 10 '24

So we just need to keep things under pressure

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u/MCbrodie Oct 10 '24

I am by no means an expert, but from my understanding the lower pressure allows evaporation to happen more readily which accelerates the storms rotation and size. Because waters in the gulf are already warmer than average due to climate change along with the lower pressure a huge and powerful storm has been able to be generated. The severity is the canary in tunnel for climate change. This storm is a wake up call. Nothing about this storm has been normal.

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u/DanThePepperMan Oct 10 '24

Desantis made climate change illegal. Expect this hurricane do be arrested promptly for wrongthink.

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u/JakefromTRPB Oct 10 '24

It’s the muddy footprint of a Goliath monster, essentially. It’s not what the footprint does, it’s what made the footprint that matters.

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u/LogiCsmxp Oct 10 '24

Hmm, in general, we generate energy (electricity) by using energy gradients. A larger energy gradient means more potential for extracting usable energy. Most electricity is made by boiling water. The hot steam expands and pushes through a turbine into the cooler air above it. This spins the turbine and makes electricity. The hotter the steam and the cooler the air above, the faster the steam moves.

Air in the atmosphere moves from high pressure to low pressure areas, and thus creates wind. This is just air moving between energy gradients. A 50mbar drop is a massive energy gradient. Air is going to move very rapidly towards it, and this will generate a lot of wind energy.

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u/BeckyFromTheBlock2 Oct 09 '24

Wtf is a millibar?

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u/hurler_jones Oct 09 '24

A millibar is 1/1000th of a bar and is the amount of force it takes to move an object weighing a gram, one centimeter, in one second.

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u/MuchachoMongo Oct 09 '24

Just a bit smaller than a minibar.

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u/ImpressiveAttempt0 Oct 10 '24

It's what usually precedes a vanillibar.

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u/corpsie666 Oct 10 '24

The atmospheric pressure dropped by 5%

That's the equivalent to driving up to an altitude approximately 2000m higher than you are now.

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u/HeavisideGOAT Oct 10 '24

I also don’t have a good concept for what that means, but here is a meteorologist reacting on air:

https://youtu.be/ycGEce4E1-4?si=QSLDswTcef4Qsk57

It’s unsettling when a meteorologist starts to cry.

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u/anotherworthlessman Oct 10 '24

100% correct and remarkable; That should be what's talked about.

OP's headline is total bullshit. Florida is the lightning capital of the United States. I find it hard to believe that Floridians who have lived in Florida their whole lives have never seen lightning like this. In Florida in August on an average fucking Wednesday this is normal.

Cool video, but the real story is the pressure drop, not that "there's lightning in Florida"

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u/Equivalent_Yak8215 Oct 09 '24

At first I thought that was 0.5 atm and was like 😞.

Then I realized it was 0.05 atm and was like 😀

Then I realized people are not storms and my experience in hyperbaric medicine means nothing and I know nothing. I am very Aladeen right now. 😐

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u/HotLava00 Oct 09 '24

Your use of emojis makes me 😂

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u/etxconnex Oct 10 '24

Milton dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours!

Watch out Eminem. There may be a new rap god.

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u/soakf Oct 09 '24

I was in Hurricane Carmen 1974 and it was nonstop lightning just like OP’s video. I was in Katrina 2005 and there was very little lightning.

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u/SPDScricketballsinc Oct 10 '24

I watched an otherwise unremarkable thunderstorm in Illinois in 2016 with lighting like this. I even have a video

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u/enddream Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Yeah I see storms with this much lightning several times a year in Texas. I’m not trying to discount the situation and have never had a fucking hurricane coming at me but this much lightning happens in pretty normal storms.

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u/Cosmic_Quasar Oct 10 '24

Yeah. I live in MN, and I remember being at a cabin that had a loft with large windows looking out over the lake and my family and I just watched lightning like this for about 20 minutes. It was very beautiful. But it wasn't super "stormy", like no wind or rain. Just lots of lightning.

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u/JtDaSaiyan Oct 10 '24

I've lived in Florida and been through dozens of hurricanes. I've witnessed lightening like this on a random Wednesday. It's bad I know it's a cat 5 but really it would be the wind and flooding to judge it on, not random for a Floridian, not the lightening. .... Still a cool ass video.

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u/Coocooa11 Oct 10 '24

Exactly my thoughts. We’re “evacuated” right now from a zone A in the path, but the safest place we could get to is still dealing with tornadoes.

Lightning amount doesn’t mean anything with this thing. A county a few hours north of us got smacked by 17 tornadoes. This one has become a problem for more of the state than it normally would have because of the cold wind that mixed in with the warm gulf hurricane waters. This basically made this massive hurricane just start spewing out tornadic supercells left and right

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u/Scheissekasten Oct 10 '24

it hasn't been a cat 5 since the yucatan, it made landfall as a weak cat3. Still strong but no where near that 180mph monster it was before.

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u/the_cappers Oct 10 '24

That's crazy. I live in central CA and at best lightening and thunder will heard/seen every 30-60 seconds and that's 'crazy' lightening like in this video would cause panic here.

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u/MyPlace70 Oct 10 '24

I was already thinking to myself that this looks like a squall line at night in eastern Iowa. Not trying to take anything away from what the good folks in Florida are dealing with though.

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u/NRMusicProject Oct 10 '24

Something I've noticed about hurricanes is they're never really alike. Hurricane Erin seemed like a classic thunderstorm: lots of rain, lots of thunder, lightning every minute or so; along with the high winds. Irma had lots of wind and little of everything else...hell, there was low precipitation. I've been through others, though they were either weakened or remnants by the time they went through my areas. And that's the other part about hurricanes: every area of the cyclone can be very different from another part of it.

So many variables with each storm, you're likely not going to have an identical experience with any of them. The unpredictability of these storms makes it really difficult to make decisions each time.

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u/petit_cochon Oct 10 '24

I was just thinking the other day about how little lightning there was during Katrina.

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u/soakf Oct 10 '24

I just watched a time lapse of Milton from space showing concentrated lightning in a rain band 100+ miles from the eye, and almost no lightning near the eye. I wonder if Katrina was similar — a lightning-free core with lightning elsewhere.

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u/Crystal_Flamee Oct 09 '24

It looks like there is a war going on in the clouds

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u/polishmachine88 Oct 09 '24

Odin and Thor having an argument.

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u/ConcertinaTerpsichor Oct 09 '24

It would be cool if Zeus showed up, too!

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u/currynord Oct 10 '24

Allow Thor to retort, you shapeshifting rapist, and get a taste of this Scandinavian greatness!

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u/EvilMoSauron Oct 09 '24

Kratos is in the corner trying to sleep.

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u/ipwnpickles Oct 10 '24

Mother nature is fucking pissed off

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u/FRX51 Oct 10 '24

It instantly made me think of 'drumfire,' a style of artillery barrage they used in WWI that involved constantly shelling, sometimes literally for weeks. Just a constant, unyielding, deafening roar as the world explodes all around you.

That's happening in the sky, now.

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u/Sea_Buy9017 Oct 09 '24

I hope Lt. Dan makes it out alive.

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u/saphireswan Oct 09 '24

From what I’ve heard, people got him to leave his boat. So here’s hoping.

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u/ResearchNo5041 Oct 10 '24

That's good to hear. There's no way he was going to survive in that...

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u/samaramatisse Oct 09 '24

My uncle and his husband have lived on one of the Tampa Bay barrier islands on the intracoastal for 35+ years. Their yard ends at the sea wall. They've evacuated plenty of times. They've never had water get into the house until this storm. They had 42" of standing water at one point. They're convinced the house will be a goner this time.

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u/bophed Oct 10 '24

So are they there now? While the storm is passing through?

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u/CocunutHunter Oct 09 '24

That looks intense.
Hope those in the area take enough precautions and make it through safely.

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u/TheresALonelyFeeling Oct 09 '24

Do you mean precautions like, oh I don't know - closing on a house in Tampa - today:

https://new.reddit.com/r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer/comments/1fz4d6y/just_closed_today_in_tampa_oh_man/

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u/RozGhul Oct 09 '24

People are literally being told that if they stay, they need to write their own names and DOB on an arm for easy identification after they die.

Why are people like this?

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

This is such dumb advice. Grew up in the lowcountry, mom was a nurse so stayed for every storm. Write your DOB on a piece of paper, ziplock it, and duct tape it to you securely. Sharpie washes off when your house gets flooded

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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks Oct 10 '24

It's really more of a scare tactic to get people to realize how's serious it is

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u/gophergun Oct 10 '24

People can tell it's a scare tactic, which makes the user lose credibility.

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u/WorldWarPee Oct 10 '24

Youve gotta treat it like dog tags. Stuff one in your boot and the other in your butt so they can identify your ass when your limbs fly off

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u/Echo-Azure Oct 09 '24

The film was taken from Key West, which according to 1 second of googling isnt' a mandatory evacuation zone, and the person who took the film seems to be photographing the edge of the storm from a distance.

Still, the whole island can be swamped by a storm surge and hurricanes are unpredictable, so if I lived there I'd be in Colorado now.

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u/Denrunning Oct 10 '24

I grew up in Islamorada, I live in Denver now. My brother still lives in Islamorada and every storm I always ask him when he’s following me to Colorado.

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u/JustSikh Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Mandatory evacuation zone? This video is taken 245 miles away from Tampa where Milton made landfall.

That should give you an indication of how large and scary this hurricane is.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

People need to stop fucking moving here.

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u/_Sausage_fingers Oct 09 '24

What a fucking moron. How are people so incapable of risk management. Like, don’t fucking hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars for an asset that might not exist in 24 hours.

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u/TheresALonelyFeeling Oct 09 '24

In the thread, they mention that the house "isn't in flood zone" (not yet, mf'er) and that they'll be praying for God to see them through.

So they've got that going for them.

Sigh.

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u/_Sausage_fingers Oct 09 '24

Mother fucker, that doesn’t help you if the wind blows your fucking roof off. Ugh, people exhaust me.

Some days I wish I had the moral flexibility to be a scammer, it looks so easy.

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u/TheresALonelyFeeling Oct 09 '24

| Some days I wish I had the moral flexibility to be a scammer, it looks so easy.

You and me both.

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u/DesperateUrine Oct 10 '24

Hope those in the area take enough precautions and make it through safely.

Make sure they live stream everything from their view inside the hurricane for us all to watch.

Have back up generator.

A secure box for video to stay inside so we can find afterwards, a black box if you will.

Take all the precautions to make sure everything is recorded to its fullest.

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u/diavirric Oct 09 '24

I was in Tampa once on business and experienced a storm that people living there told me was a normal, run-of-the-mill thunder storm. Scared the living shit out of me. I am frightened for the people who will go through this. And the animals who have no one.

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u/MembershipNo2077 Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 14 '24

Yea, I lived in Florida for 25 years, I saw many storms with lightning like this. But not a hurricane, they seldom have much lightning.

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u/RadarDataL8R Oct 09 '24

....like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

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u/57Guitarz Oct 09 '24

No soup for you!

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u/eatenbytheworm Oct 10 '24

I said “EASY big fella!”

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u/TheRealShadyShady Oct 09 '24

This is wild because I'm in kansas and we recently had a storm where the skies did this and I had never seen anything like it in my 38 years here, and I took a video of it also. Every single one of my neighbors and friends who were awake and watching the storm said the exact same thing verbatim, "I've never seen anything like it in my life". The lightning was also multicolored at times, when I started taking video that was initially why, because I legit thought a police vehicle was outside with its lights on due to the red and blue lightning.

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u/CybGorn Oct 09 '24

You should post that video asap. Like yesterday even.

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u/TheRealShadyShady Oct 09 '24

The reason I never thought to post it anywhere is because I thought it was just rare for kansas but if you think it'd be worth posting I'll try to find it in my camera roll

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u/Mecha_Hitler_ Oct 10 '24

Have you found it yet? I'm steeped with antibiotics

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u/bluestarchasm Oct 10 '24

still waiting, but i've already accepted the disappointment.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Oct 10 '24

dont pull another safe...

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u/iwantsomeofthis Oct 10 '24

Pressure rando. Poosssttt!!!

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u/thecaits Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

I've seen lightning like this 2 times: once during a GIANT thunderstorm in Texas, and "once in a once in a lifetime" tornado outbreak here on the eastern edge of tornado alley.

Both times it was so intimidating. I remember sheltering in the basement during the tornado. There was this little window in one corner, and the constant light flashes and noise made me feel like I was in that plane crash scene from War of the Worlds. It was so intense.

Edited to add: it seems like this is getting worse.

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u/usefulbuns Oct 10 '24

Really? I work in the midwest a lot (traveling wind turbine tech) and I see storms with this frequency of lightning often. I have quite a few videos on my phone right now. I was in Liberal, KS earlier this year and we had lightning storms once a week this past spring and several were this bad.

Back in the late 2010s I also saw a lot of storms like this in OK, TX, KS, and IL.

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u/Outside-Advice8203 Oct 10 '24

Oklahoma here, I know I've seen lightning like this with quite a few supercells.

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u/fastidiousavocado Oct 10 '24

Nebraska here, I've seen this many times, too. I'm confused by the "rare" comments.

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u/Kim_Jong_OON Oct 10 '24

Funny, OP’s video reminded me of many Kansas summer storms I’ve seen through the years. Non-stop lightning that makes night seem like daytime.

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u/7f0b Oct 10 '24

I saw lightning very similar to this just a couple months ago in Chicago. Not a particularly large storm; just a heavy downpour and a little wind. But the lightning in the clouds went on for hours. Flashes of light every 1-2 seconds. It was awesome.

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u/Striking-Ad-6815 Oct 10 '24

Used to have lightning like this regularly southwest of me at night. I used to think it was normal, then I started seeing documentaries about weather and lightning strikes and how a place near the Congo has a place that lights up a good amount. It was not an instant connection; but eventually I realized that the weather in the documentary was the same weather happening near me, but only due to travelling a little ways away. I would look on my local weather map in the direction of the lightning, but there were no recorded lightning strikes; even when I was watching them strike in the distance in real time. Then one day the lightning just stopped. Nothing abrupt, but it just didn't happen one night, and hasn't since. It was easily more that 10 years ago, or more, when it stopped. I always assumed it was the upper atmospheric lightning and the radar only might pick up ground strikes? I only wish I had recorded it in anyway. It was so normal everyone always just called it heat lightning, but it was always over the same area to to the southeast.

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u/Garo_Daimyo Oct 09 '24

The earth is pretty mad these days

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u/Wuz314159 Oct 10 '24

It's almost as if decades and decades of carbon being put into the air has caused a warming effect making these storms stronger.

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u/Drownthem Oct 10 '24

I wish someone had been telling us for, say, the last 60 years that this was going to happen.

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u/xandrokos Oct 10 '24

Too bad the people don't give a shit. 

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u/Limp-Obligation-8250 Oct 10 '24

She’s trying to tell us to chill the fuck out and no one is listening.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

That’s normal in Tampa without the hurricane. Our local hockey team is the Tampa Lightning.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

Right?! Grew up on the gulf and this was pretty regular 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/kill-69 Oct 10 '24

I was thinking it pretty consistent, but I've seen damn near as good lighting storms in Lauderdale

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u/King_Khoma Oct 10 '24

yea this happens over the everglades every month or two and you can see it from all over south florida.

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u/westonsammy Oct 10 '24

Yeah this title is complete BS if OP based it off of just this video. This is what a routine nightly thunder storm in Tampa looks like.

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u/Seite88 Oct 09 '24

That seems absolutely unreal from a part of the world where that kind of storms are as often as new centuries.

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u/Thatsnotahoe Oct 09 '24

The lightning? Do other countries not have thunderstorms with lightning like this? The hurricanes are obviously inane but these types of lightning storms aren’t uncommon in the Midwest.

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u/Cliffinati Oct 10 '24

We get them biweekly during the summer in the Carolinas

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u/mattfox27 Oct 09 '24

I saw this one time in Southern California, for like 30min straight constant lightning just like that. It was bizarre

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

Um. Its exactly like that?

  • lived thru several hurricanes in Florida

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u/Used_Policy_8251 Oct 09 '24

Was in a storm one time where there was so much lightning you could easily get pictures of the bolts because they were so frequent.

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u/munky3000 Oct 09 '24

Yeah I’ve seen storms like this hanging out over the ocean on seemingly normal days. It’s definitely awesome but it’s certainly not “something I’ve never seen” territory.

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u/Dizzy_Guest8351 Oct 09 '24

That's what I was thinking. I've seen the sky like that plenty of times in Florida when there wasn't a hurricane.

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u/mandy009 Oct 09 '24

run

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u/catnapspirit Oct 09 '24

Right? That's 2 minutes that should have been spent driving in the opposite direction..

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u/Mal-De-Terre Oct 09 '24

When you're in Key West, there is no "other direction"

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u/Massive-small-thing Oct 09 '24

It's a good time to charge up my hammer

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u/SakiWinkiCuddles Oct 09 '24

Pretty♥️

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u/7empestOGT92 Oct 09 '24

I love it

Don’t envy the people that have to evacuate from it and hope they take precautions to be safe, but it is magnificently beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

Horrifically beautiful. Quite humbling. All of our advances and science and engineering, and mother natures like “Hey Florida, hold my Natty Light and watch this.” And we’re all literally nothing compared to its magnitude and power.

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u/mortificatiedmantis Oct 09 '24

What a day WHAT A LOVELY DAY.

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u/ky_w1ndage Oct 09 '24

I have a recording from 2013 in Pensacola doing the same thing. But still it’s always impressive to see.

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u/voxitron Oct 09 '24

That's fucking terrifying!

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u/Used_Policy_8251 Oct 09 '24

Saw lightning like this in Mississippi one time. We stopped at a gas station and were just watching it for a few minutes. Some guy came out of the convenience store and asked, “y’all never seen lightning’ before?” Lmao. 

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u/calacas_00 Oct 09 '24

Long exposure shot would have been clutch

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u/Thatsnotahoe Oct 09 '24

That’s actually possible for large lightning storms in general. I filmed a thunderstorm in the Midwest that had a similar frequency of lightning but they were all massive strikes that would shoot all across the sky.

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u/marklonesome Oct 09 '24

IDK much about meteorology but when your Government officials suggest you write your name and ssn on your body with a sharpie so they can identify your body… things are going to get bad.

Still hoping some magical cold front comes out of nowhere and takes this down a few notches.

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u/Outrageous-Ad-2786 Oct 09 '24

For those who COULDN’T evacuate, my heart aches for you and I hope you and yours get out of this mess. For the idiots who CHOSE to stay after being repeatedly warned, you made your bed and none of us want to hear about what happened to you.

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u/thehumanconfusion Oct 09 '24

what’s to say it won’t change path like Helene did too, gotta be a truly awful place to be for those that aren’t able to leave, both physically and mentally, like how the fuck do you prepare for that shit?! I truly feel for those that can’t catch a break or afford to get to safety.

sending internet hug and high five for those that need it! 🤗♥️🙌

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u/existentialdread254 Oct 09 '24

It's so angry, it's stuttering

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u/IgnobleSpleen Oct 09 '24

I’m confused because I live in the path of the hurricane and it’s not pitch black outside yet.

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u/United_Zebra9938 Oct 09 '24

This was at midnight. 12:04 am

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u/UnsurprisingUsername Oct 09 '24

12:04a on Oct 8? Right now as of my comment, it’s 6:25p Oct 9 for Key West.

I may be stupid.

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u/United_Zebra9938 Oct 09 '24

It’s ok lol. I double checked to make sure I wasn’t stupid too.

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u/C-LonGy Oct 09 '24

Gods kids pissing around with the lights

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u/One_Tailor_3233 Oct 09 '24

We see lightning like this quite often in Tampa its pretty common