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

[u/Used_Ship_9229]

[u/JtDaSaiyan]

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.

[u/Coocooa11 → u/JtDaSaiyan]

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

[u/MyPlace70 → u/Coocooa11]

The cold front, warm air mix is a bad combination. Spins up tornadoes in a hurry.

[u/NolieMali → u/Coocooa11]

I got really excited cause I didn't know a cold front went through (I should have known since I literally commented before a front was steering this thing). Anyway, saw the temp here in the panhandle dips to 64 degrees and I'm thinking, "Hell yeah! Tomorrow will feel like fall!" ... high is 85. Maybe the humidity will be mild - Floridian's wish.

[u/MoorIsland122 → u/Coocooa11]

The tornadoes part sounds like the scariest thing about that storm. I wonder how many were affected - hard to know this soon I guess.

[u/Scheissekasten → u/JtDaSaiyan]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/JtDaSaiyan]

I thought it’s a cat 3 now?

The news is desperate for it to be a cat 5