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Was in gulf county first half could see it all second half had to sleep it out it was so white, noise from the wind blocked out the sounds of all the trees falling. Felt like something out of the wizard of oz, the house was breathing. A huge oak tree saved the house from getting smashed by pine trees. In front of the house was an rv a shed and an suv dead smack in the center. That spot became a whirl pool for all the junk and amazingly the suv was unharmed. After the storm all the people came together in the neighborhood and helped clear roads and what have you. I had ended up working a double the day prior people asked what am i going to do i said well just hunker down and pray for the best. 5 o clock that morning winds started picking up. Crazy moment in time ...
It’s probably because the way the media covers it is like they are doing a selfie, it’s not so much about the storm as much as it’s about the reporter in it. Is it any wonder nature keeps getting angrier and angrier with us?
Well the reason why it’s bad for others and sorry a year later is cuz that people have older stuff and like news people use older but strong stuff so nothing would get destroyed and all the footage.
for most people it comes with age. it's rare for kids or young people to have the same demeanor unless their parents have it too(being in the military probably helps some lol ).
It was scary for me hearing debris hit the house and i couldnt even see out of my windows the whole house was shaking doing lots of praying in my hallway!!!
I live in Puerto Rico. Lived a similar experience with hurricane Maria. No electricity for 7 months, no water for a month and the signal will never be as good as before. Glad you’re safe and thank you for this footage, nature is wild. ❤️❤️
That noise will forever be the worse sound you can imagine. The roar for hours. Houses creaking from pressure. That was definitely a hard one to ride out. Lost everything trees half the house and even now fixing to be 3 year anniversary of this behemoth. A lot of people are still rebuilding. Or have just moved on. We are hour northeast of you. Makes your really appreciate the power Mother Nature can throw at you. But I gotta say. This dude did a great job filming and awesome composure. 10/10/18 forever ❤️❤️
Gotta appreciate this guy’s zen. Watching his property being ripped to shreds, and having the wisdom to know there’s nothing he can do about it so he might as well just stay calm.
sir, I wish you and your mother a long life. You stayed in your house till the end and captured the whole hurricane. Thank you for the video. Greetings from Azerbaijan
I’m also in Florida, on the east coast. My heart broke for your guys that had to face the wrath of Michael. You got some incredible footage and remained so calm throughout the ordeal. I’m so sorry that you went through that but glad that you and your loved ones made it out safely. So sad about that beautiful magnolia tree. I hope that this is the last hurricane that you must face and your home, yard and vehicle have been repaired. Also, as for the color of the sky, it’s some kind of weather phenomenon. I went through Irma and Matthew and saw that after the storm the sky turned this incredible purple/ violet color. Sending prayers and well-wishes to you and your family. Stay safe!
Thanks for watching and for your thoughts. From my point of view, the tree loss is the worst after effect. The houses will be repaired or rebuilt. That will take time, and its sad that so many people (nearly everyone) had damage. But, you can't rebuilt the trees, that will take many years. We've had our roof repaired, including broken rafters. But there's still work to be done inside. A large area of the ceiling is water damaged. I'm still picking up small debris in the yard. My car was more damaged than I realized on Day 0. The insurance company totaled it. I've replaced it with another smart with half the mileage. Same colors, but it's not a cabrio. Interesting about the sky after the storm. I'm pretty seriously color deficient and couldn't name the color. I just knew it wasn't normal.
I honestly appreciated this video more than any storm chaser's footage. I can better relate with somebody who had to go through this hell of a storm because he lived in its path, rather than with a chaser dude craving for a footage. The sheer size of the devastation is impressive and I hope you'll manage to return to your "normal" life as soon as possible. Here in Italy we don't have storms of this magnitude, but earthquakes are a constant concern. I have seen many friends suffering from the consequences of an earthquake and having to patch up their homes and life in the aftermath. That's really sad. I wish you good luck!
Lost my house in this. Eye went over my home (I live in Callaway, Panama City Fl) and we had to evacuate in the middle of it to my neighbors house. This was due to a major gas leak and our home began to flood from the torn up roof and a gauge that was on the roof was completely torn off. I regret not giving my parents more reason to have us evacuate because of how much traumatic stress I have from it. It takes a big toll knowing where you grew up and are still growing up(I just got my learners permit) has been destroyed.
I appreciate that you had the insight to say the times while recording. My Hurricane Harvey (2017) was a totally different experience from yours. It made landfall to the south as a Cat 4, weakened, then drifted off back into the gulf and proceeded to just sit there. I had various radars pulled up constantly, and I spent 18 hours inside of, or directly next to the heaviest rain band of the entire storm. The rain gauge 100yds away registered at a total of 49.5 inches in 24 hours. Just outside of my neighborhood there were cars with destroyed roofs, not from trees falling on them, but from getting hit by the propellors of the boats driving over them. The storm finally started moving again when the water was 6 feet from my doorstep, though only 5 houses down got 3 feet of water. My 3 most clear memories: Neighbors walking through my yard at 3am to try and find high ground after their house flooded, watching 3 cars driving directly into 6ft deep water, and the sound of the wind. You can't describe what a hurricane sounds like to someone who hasn't heard it, and cameras just can't capture it fully.
It's hard to believe that the yard showing at the start of the video, is the same one at the end. The amount of damage there was insane. Glad you guys were ok though.
Glad this video blew up, honestly. Really shows the kind of damage a storm of this capacity can harvest, which is something that's always intrigued me. I live in Central Florida and from the couple hurricanes I've been in after moving down here, it's never been as hectic as this cat-4 monster. Glad you guys pulled through!
I love how completely calm he is while everything he owns is getting destroyed. It just goes to show that someone understands property can be replaced, lives can’t.
I'm a life-long Florida residential, and as such, I have rode through no less than a dozen storms. One thing your video points out, and few others do, is how LOUD hurricanes can be. You're in a house with no power, just like every other house around you for blocks, and the only thing you can hear is the wind howling and debris flying outside. It is scary as hell. Keep in mind, these hurricanes last for HOURS! I don't care how calm you may think you are, it is unnerving to hear the POWER of a Category 4 hurricane just outside your front door.
Thanks for the observations. Even though Michael's areal coverage wasn't large by hurricane standards, it left a track of destruction more than 50-miles wide. Well beyond a few blocks of our neighborhood, naturally. We knew this was true in real time as the storm closed in. That is awesome to think about, even as it's occurring. Yeah, it was loud! So loud, in fact, that we didn't even hear the sound of a neighbor's roof being strewn through the whole block. There was just so much sound competing with what would be a frightening sound otherwise.
Wow...you provided an amazing & detailed video. Fantastic job! Too often, I see people trying to exploit the devastation & suffering of others in disasters like this. Your video, on the other hand, is truly informative. So well edited & presented...the timeline, added notations, etc. I sincerely appreciate you sharing this footage & providing details about the storm. I cannot imagine going through something of this magnitude! While I no longer live there (& haven't for many years), I did grow up in Florida (Leesburg for several years, then moved to the east coast...W. Melbourne, Palm Bay area). I was extremely fortunate, never having to go through a hurricane. Tropical storm was the worst I ever endured. That was scary enough (especially as a kid) but this was a massive & powerful hurricane! I'm very happy to know that you & your family got through it safely..."things" can always be replaced but people cannot. All the best to you...stay safe! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for recording and posting. Hope y'all are doing ok. This is a textbook example of the shift in wind directions when the eye passes directly over. Note the big magnolia only lost one side of it's foliage before the eye. The second pass took care of the rest. Our grandiflora was stripped bare on it's SE side from Katrina (we're in Biloxi). It's still not fully recovered, 13 years later. All the pines around us will forever lean NW.
I’ve watched a lot of Michael videos and I feel like yours shows how hard the wind was pushing the best. Thank you for documenting and I’m glad you and the lady made it out alive.
Unbelievable!!! I live in Hamburg /Germany. We can't imagine, how powerful those hurricanes can be. God bless you all. Greetings and kisses from Germany.
@@SekFuny So, you think the UK owns the market on brick homes? That's utterly bizarre, especially when you consider this video was recorded in a BRICK HOME in Florida, USA.
Was this the kentucky tornado? That was a horrible storm. Powerful and long tracked. It's like it was designed to kill. Tornadoes hit cities more often than you'd think. So this will probably happen again soon enough. And it might happen to me.
@@13_cmi I was posting about the December 10-11, 2021 outbreak. Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_December_10%E2%80%9311,_2021 Earth might be the only planet with life in our solar system, but certainly not in the Universe. We evolved here, any other body in our solar system would mean nearly instant death to an unprotected human.
@@Vector_Ze yeah that’s the outbreak that had the awful tornado in Kentucky. It was something like 40 people in one town that died. And most of the deaths were in Kentucky. That really sucks.
@@Vector_Ze no. About people were killed in mayfield I guess. And debris was sent 30,000 feet up? That’s insane. That tornado wasn’t even as powerful as they can get. I don’t even know if an ef5 with almost 300mph winds could do something like that. It might’ve been the perfect amount of power for destruction and flinging debris. That’s almost plane level.
These folks are relatively calm but I'm telling you it is scary riding out a hurricane like this. My wife and I rode one out in Biloxi MS that was much weaker than Michael. This was a fast moving storm and they are all lucky it didn't park itself for 8 or 10 hours. There would have been NOTHING left. The power was off right away when we rode it out and it was nighttime. We had lanterns and flashlights of course but it was nerve racking. Rain blew into the attic from every vent and opening and soaked the ceilings. I sat there and watched sheetrock fall off the walls and from around the windows until you could see the 2x4 framing. My wife was losing it and I had to keep her calmed down. She thought the entire house was going to blow apart. Yeah it is not fun at all. Good job with the video work! This brought back a lot of memories.
Yup, you mentioned two of the "best" things about Michael, and we were fully aware at the time of the positives, if you can say a strong hurricane has any positives. It was fast moving and moved through in daylight. Although the 14-days without electricity following the storm seemed to last forever with unseasonably hot weather and no A/C. Another fortunate thing from our personal perspective was that the winds were entirely east and west, with nearly all windows and the doors of the house facing north and south, so the strong winds blew parallel to the most vulnerable surfaces. If we'd have had a breach from broken windows or doors, the house would likely have been destroyed, like eight other homes within a few hundred yards of ours were. Thanks for watching.
Fellow Victim of Michael. I am so thankful that we left late the night before it hit. Something just came over us saying leave the area because we usually stay but I just had a feeling it was going to be a strong storm. We found a room in Gainesville FL, watching the coverage all day. Searching Facebook for updates but when the storm hit it took out every form of communication. I didn’t know if are families were ok. Was are home still standing? Our places of employment? Would I have a job? How long would we go without power? I am still dealing with the aftermath of the storm. My home was a total loss due to flooding but we had no flood insurance because there wasn’t a need for it or so we thought..creeks and rivers with natural springs were clogged with trees making ground water rise for forming a LAKE with my home in it…my storm didn’t end that day but was a slow death for our home as rains continued almost everyday with no where for the water to go but spread out. We had to use a boat to empty out the house which was built on piers. 6 ft deep at the max, now still about a foot deep.
I'm glad you and your mother got through that unharmed. The damage to property and especially the trees is sad. Here's hoping it is a long, long time before that area sees anything like that again.
Wow, vicious winds! I’m sorry for the losses there, poor magnolia, and the oak. Glad you stayed safe. Pretty scary when that branch punched into the roof! Thankyou for sharing what it was like.
They are fascinating. But, if you were in your home, seriously worried about whether or not it would hold up, you might not be feeling so comfortable. The structure shudders, the sound is overwhelming. You can hear objects striking your house. It's stressful. A woman two doors down fled during the eye of the storm as her home was being torn apart. It's now a vacant lot, along with 8-other destroyed homes within a few hundred yards. Thanks for watching.
I just rode out my first hurricane in Punta Gorda, we took a direct hit from hurricane Ian and it spun over us for roughly 6-8 hours not including the outer bands. Our town will take a long time before it looks like it used too but we were truly spared from the storm surge. Wind Gust of up to 190 mph will truly set off one’s primal fear! I hope you have rebuilt everything and planted a tree in your family’s trees memory!
Hi! I'm the guy who posted this video! And, I watch it periodically. Dayum, that was traumatic. And, watching it now and then, Sheesh! I can see why people question that I was calm, and question the stability of the garden table. Oh well. Life is like a box of chocolates...and I got Michael and not Ian.
Biggest one I ever got hit with was a Cat 2 or 3, but the big gusts looked like 5:12 to 5:18. Blue roof tarps everywhere after that. It was Wilma Cat 5 with 185 at some point, but reportedly was estimated at a 2 when it hit me, but it felt like more.
Well RUclips has recommended it - and i live in Athens Greece, just imagine that. Scary and impressive though. I remember i watched the event of Hurricane Michael hitting Florida half across the world through RUclips. Sitting at night in the comfort of my room and thinking about the hell all these people must be going through this menace. Ain't algorithms today super smart or what? PS: i 'm very sorry for all the damage to your property and town, hope you are all right by now...
@@manpetepetrop8034 Consider this: While you, and other people around the world, were watching coverage on TV, RUclips, and elsewhere...here, our 6-week news blackout had just begun. For the first week, we had local radio providing important information on the situation. But, only local information. We didn't hear about the horrible California wildfire until LONG after the fact, as an example. Amazingly, the local radio stations went back to programming as usual after only 7-days, leaving us totally in the dark! That still pisses me off! Six weeks after the storm, I finally bought an over-the-air TV antenna and the blackout ended. Several weeks after that we finally had internet and cable TV restored. Two "good" things about the storm. For a week afterward, the night sky was free of light pollution due to there being no electric power for miles around, the Milky Way was actually visible. After a week, the light pollution began to return as distant lights started returning. Our power was out for 14-days. And, for a few weeks, Donald Trump rarely crossed my mind. Two positives in a disaster area. One weird thing about this video's view count. It was published on December 8th, and after 74-days It only had 258 views. That's when the hockey stick started forming. Thank you for watching and commenting.
@@Vector_Ze Jesus Christ... my mind can't even process the shitstorm that you people went through. It 's outrageous that your government (both state and federal), did nothing to help you out in this time of dire need. As for the news outlets (radio and Tv), i wouldn't expect any better : repairs are underway, and now sports... As for the Orange Idiot in the white house, hell yeah, that was a good de-toxing for a few weeks i guess. PS: Being a seafarer myself i have seen several times the milky way and the glorious spectacle of a clear night sky... nothing compares to that. You 're welcome, best wishes...
As a resident of FL I’ve never watched it before hand like this. I’m glad you captured this. We’ve rode out a lot of hurricanes in the past but for some we have to evacuate. Especially during Irma.
Sir, excellent recording & even more excellent the way you remained calm!! I'd like you in my bunker if, God forbid, we ever need a bunker! I'm from AL (Tusc) & though we've seen our fair share of bad weather nothing I've experienced can match this! I am so very sorry y'all didn't get the national attention & help you should've had from the govt. I do hope y'all have recovered & have been restored to whole although I know nothing will ever be the same as b4 this hurricane. Plz stay well in these uncertain times, be safe & may many blessings come to you & yours in all your ways & for all your days
Amazing footage and incredibly well-done video. I love how calm you remain throughout the terrifying ordeal. You have some balls of steel! If we get a direct hit from Dorian (as currently projected) and I stay half as calm as you did I’ll feel incredibly proud. I am glad you made it though safely and hope the repairs were made and you’re now back to a somewhat normal life.
I live in Panama City Beach. We are very fortunate that the main thing we lost in this devastating hurricane that rocked my community was my husband’s car, our pool enclosure and several trees. A massive branch flew over the top of the house, nicked the chimney and came down upon my husband’s car. It somehow knocked the front bumper off, cracked the back windows, broke seals inside the vehicle and gouged a huge dent into the side of the vehicle. Thus, completely totaling the car. Three years later and this community is still feeling the effects of this incredibly powerful hurricane. We have been limping along ever since and the Pandemic has not done this area any favors. You still feel and see the impact of this horrific storm in the wake of its tremendous destruction.
This is one of the more “thorough” hurricane videos I’ve seen. You can really feel the stillness in the eye wall. I love the time stamps…really shows exactly how long a hurricane is from start to finish. Great video!
Thanks, I needed that Julie! I might even suggest you check the feature length documentary (Days -2 to 37) ruclips.net/video/ThzWh46wDDk/видео.html Check the description with a linked contents list, since you probably won't want to watch all of it. Thanks for watching!
Man I live in Callaway and that was a terrifying day...me and my wife stayed thru it and I will never do that again... when they said it was going to be a cat 3 I was fine with that we boarded our windows up and decided to stay but it changed very quickly and we had nothing we could do besides stay I've been through every storm that hit the Florida Panhandle since 1993 and this was by far the worst
It actually was the strongest to hit the Panhandle. But, in "fairness" to the other hurricanes, none of them hit Bay County directly. Opal, for example...the center crossed the coast 80 miles to the west near Pensacola Beach. Thanks for watching and sharing.
Excellent film of this hurricane. You captured that unique sound that hurricanes make (I've been through a few). I am amazed at how well your house, the neighbor's house and shed did through this storm. Your houses are solid. I am sorry that you had to go through this and I am so glad that you are both okay. Take care and thank you for sharing this.
Thank you! As a nature sound recordist of some experience, yes, recording wind sounds without mic noise is a real challenge. Unfortunately, there were four houses within a five-minute walk which were completely destroyed, and many more needing significant repairs. One of the destroyed houses was just 2-doors to the west. Its roof was strewn across the whole block in the south eye wall. That house and another one have been demolished since. There are several others in the immediate neighborhood which are clearly beyond repair but remain standing so far.
Kudo's to you sir, for filming when your yard and house were being severely impacted. I hope the recovery was swift and hassle free. Greets from Australia.
1,000,000 view mark passed this morning, September 27, 2020 at 10:14 AM CDT - 659-days, or 1.8-years after publishing. Thanks to all for viewing and commenting. A few statistics: Due to lack of internet connectivity due to storm damage, not published 'til 58-days after storm. Four full months after publishing, view count was only 1,231. Then, YT discovered it. Overall, average daily view count is 1,518 to this point. During its most active viewing period, from March through April 2019, I was impatiently waiting for RUclips to grant monetization. Average view duration is about four minutes. 14% (140,000) watched to completion, about average for a video this long. Half of viewers dropped out by the 38-second mark, before the storm even hits. There are spikes in views whenever an active storm threatens US landfall. There has been increased viewership as it neared this landmark.
Amazing footage and you didn’t point the camera at the ground once, just amazing footage, can’t believe you were so calm, wow, thank you from a person who thinks 100 kilometres per hour is fast.
One of my favorite videos of Michael. Very interesting to see it from a homeowner's perspective, rather than your typical storm chasers. It's pretty incredible how much destruction it caused in that neighborhood in only like, 2 hours. I hope recovery is going well for everyone affected by that monstrous storm.
For what it's worth, my camcorder has a zoom lens. :-) It doesn't, however, use film. :-p The tone of my narration is just my nature. Panic in an emergency is dangerous. Thanks for watching.
I'm from miami, and growing up with hurricanes, as a kid it's the most scariest time you can go thru. But in the past years it's like the hurricanes have become more ferocious, glad I now live in central texas. 🕊🙏💜
I just dealt with Milton last week...one mile away from the official landfall but was relatively unscathed. Fortunately the storm broke up prior to landfall so it was less devastating than predicted, and nothing compared to this video. Just crazy. Glad you fared well enough to share this video
My two sons and I rode it out in Lynn Haven. By the grace of God himself our home was okay with minimal damage. This was my first hurricane on my own and was just glad to have remembered the precautions and prep from the hurricanes as a child/teenager. Doesn't mean I wasn't scared half to death though!
Unless you have lived through something like this I don’t think anyone should criticise the decisions you make based on the circumstances you are living through at that time. Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
YES🤩 That happened when I was younger! I used to live in Staten Island. Hurricane Sandy hit. After that, the flood was almost up to our stairs, cars in trees, a disaster. I feel bad for the place under us. We lived near a lake so that was a benefit(sarcasm).
Hmmmm... Native Floridian here & I love to watch mother nature's sense of humor. Big rooted trees fell to their knees in the mist of her during her work but a simple cafe table only flipped over once but look like someone sat it back up properly & the bird feeder (I think that's what it was) really were able to strong against a damn C4/5 hurricane. I be damn!! I love Mother Nature. She's so mysterious.
Thanks for watching. Due to the wind direction being perpendicular to the recessed door, the risk was rather minimal. Probably not much more than keeping the door closed and having the wall destroyed. Fortunate circumstance, also that the storm came ashore during daylight. Anyway, I've been a weather enthusiast for more than 40-years and HAD to do my best to document this (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime event. The word brave doesn't seem to apply.
Dude much much respect for both your endurance and calm demeanor. Storm of the decade rolling in, circumstances that be keeping you from busting out, so you video log the whole damn thing hour by hour while it tears apart everything in your sector of the state save for your equally unimpressed patio table lmao. Please tell me that when it died down a bit you went out and flipped it off lol
This is the best hurricane video I have seen. Along side with the Jeff Piotrowski‘s legendary Blue Shed Eyewall live footage. This is mindblowing amazing. Respect and many thanks.
It’s definitely not safe to go outside right now... two seconds later he’s outside lol loves this guy. I’d be the exact same way. Never been in a hurricane but I know I’d be doing the same thing this fella is doing. Cool video! Hope everyone is ok!!
To be fair, between the time I made that comment and when I again opened the door, we spent some time huddled in an interior bathroom. This video documents about 11-minutes of a storm which lasted hours. But, thanks.
Sir thank you for documenting this storm of a lifetime. I have never seen such beautiful destruction occur from nature. I'm from Indiana and have been in some wild weather but nothing close to this. Hope you and your wife are doing well. Thanks for the POV!
I stay in parker, five minutes away from Winn Dixie. I rode out this storm, thinking like so many of us here, that it wasn't going to be a strong hurricane.. I was extremely wrong. I recorded a video of my neighbor's roof being torn off. After that I got my brother's dogs that I was watching and put them in the bathtub and waited in there with them until the storm passed. Most of the houses on my road were made of brick but when I walked out, the brick that was part of the garage was lying on the ground. I celebrated my 30th birthday ten days after the storm. Needless to say, I won't be staying for anymore category three hurricanes or above, just to be safe. I'm hoping that y'all are still doing okay. Lots of prayers for the panhandle and other affected areas.
I don't know whether you were here in 1995 or not. If so, you'd have been close to 7-years old. I'm much older. I laughed out loud when co-workers purchased, "I survived Hurricane Opal", T-shirts. Opal caused a lot of damage here, especially on the beach. But, Panama City was not the target. Opal crossed the coast 80-miles to the west. Michael was the first direct hit for Panama City in a lifetime. Ironically, PCBch was less affected by Michael than it was by Opal, and the news media gave the beaches more coverage than they did the harder hit eastern areas. Go figure. I recorded a video of Opal in Panama City, it's in my Tropical Weather Playlist... ruclips.net/p/PLf2iOlhKGlL0lMzc9W0lu0EgBuGIuRU1M
@@Vector_Ze yeah I was for opal as well but I barley remember it. I was born on the afb in 88. Your right, no hurricane has ever done any devastation like Micheal has. I remember that Katrina was supposed to hit us but changed course. I sometimes wonder if Micheal was so bad because we had got lucky in '05 or some crazy end of days type thing. 🤷 Once I did get a phone after the storm, I spent time looking up hurricane records. Eloise looked bad but like Opal, it hit pcb harder than this side of town.
@@Vector_Ze yeah I noticed that most of the coverage was on the beach. :/ I suppose it's good reassurance for the tourists. I avoid that area and have always gone to crooked island. I heard the road to it is blocked off.
@@kmkkween88 Thanks for watching. I wouldn't put any credence in supernatural influences in the storm. I was working here (WDLP) when Eloise hit. A friend and co-worker made a video of the experience on super 8 silent film. It's not mine to post or I would.
kmkkween88 my husband was two days short of being one month post quadruple bypass. At one point we closed all the curtains, crawled into our bed, and waited to see if we were goi g to live.
Having lived through Hurricane Gloria in 1985 Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Super Storm Sandy this is as real as it gets. great footage. I am sorry about the damage your house incurred. I am glad you survived it,
Thank you so much for posting - always good to have a frame of reference here in Florida when we sometimes underestimate the amount of debris. So happy you made it through 👏👍
My parents live out in Southport in an old run-down single-wide trailer built in the 70s. They stayed during Michael but it got so bad, they ended up riding the storm out in their cars at a park up the road. There weren't a lot of trees at the park. I think that's what they were afraid of, a tree falling on the trailer. Needless to say, there aren't any trees left. All gone. So sad.
If you looked in the two months after the storm, you wouldn't have found it. We had no internet access until December 8th. Tell your friends and thanks for watching!
Filming this horrific storm was a very brave thing to do, me and my family (Panama city) boarded up our windows, but the noises were enough. We heard the train on 231 knock over and it sounded like a bomb
Geeeeezzzz the power of Michael. Awesome footage man 🤙🏽 this year is going to be rough, Waters are hotter very early into the season especially south of Cuba, surface temp is 90+. Glad you and your family were safe
The water was very warm in 2018 too. 2020 is projected to be an active year, but at the moment a couple things are keeping a lid on it. Thinking positive...an active year doesn't always mean a lot of landfalling storms, some years they mostly stay out to sea. Thanks for watching.
Wow, so glad you’re OK. I’ve never seen a video of hurricane and blown away by the strength. Also very impressed by your calm demeanor. Thanks for sharing.
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It is heartbreaking to see, but thanks for the video
Michael blew through here in South Carolina much weaker but still did a lot of damage
As long as you guys are okay that will be good news
Yes...
I can see that the wind is now blowing in the opposite direction.
Was in gulf county first half could see it all second half had to sleep it out it was so white, noise from the wind blocked out the sounds of all the trees falling. Felt like something out of the wizard of oz, the house was breathing. A huge oak tree saved the house from getting smashed by pine trees. In front of the house was an rv a shed and an suv dead smack in the center. That spot became a whirl pool for all the junk and amazingly the suv was unharmed. After the storm all the people came together in the neighborhood and helped clear roads and what have you. I had ended up working a double the day prior people asked what am i going to do i said well just hunker down and pray for the best. 5 o clock that morning winds started picking up. Crazy moment in time ...
This footage is ten times better than the actual media who cover these storms
I hadn't even realized how bad Michael hit the US! This was amazing footage and so glad they are all ok.
Hard to show good footage from a cozy safe studio. The major news is obsolete to the thinking person.
Elizabeth yea it was terrifying but cool at the same time. But I’m glad everyone survived.
It’s probably because the way the media covers it is like they are doing a selfie, it’s not so much about the storm as much as it’s about the reporter in it. Is it any wonder nature keeps getting angrier and angrier with us?
Well the reason why it’s bad for others and sorry a year later is cuz that people have older stuff and like news people use older but strong stuff so nothing would get destroyed and all the footage.
The best part of this video is your cool, calm demeanor. This nation needs more like you. I wish you all the best.
Thanks! Panic never helps in an emergency.
for most people it comes with age. it's rare for kids or young people to have the same demeanor unless their parents have it too(being in the military probably helps some lol ).
@@Hy-Brasil I agree, but I'm 60 and I'm pretty well certain I would have struggled to maintain that level of composure!
I agree
It was scary for me hearing debris hit the house and i couldnt even see out of my windows the whole house was shaking doing lots of praying in my hallway!!!
I live in Puerto Rico. Lived a similar experience with hurricane Maria. No electricity for 7 months, no water for a month and the signal will never be as good as before. Glad you’re safe and thank you for this footage, nature is wild. ❤️❤️
**want to turn off computer because of hurricane**
Windows: _It is update, my dude_
Skwowwkwkwmwmwkkwowow
Windows: _it is update, my dude_
This may be the best home made hurricane video, that I have seen. Not annoying. Just a good, clean video.
😮😊uu
Whenever I see these videos I cant help but wonder how people experienced these hurricanes 300-400 years ago.
*tries to turn off computer in an emergency situation*
Windows: You think you can easily get away, huh?
LMAO!
Person: "Imma turnin' off the computer."
Microsoft Windows: "... how about, no?"
Who else was “rooting” for the magnolia tree?
Me for sure! Magnolia's are near and dear to my heart as I mentioned to him above in my comments. Something about those trees!
@@ElizabethMac Those Magnolia trees are impressive and beautiful, they smell wonderful as well!
That noise will forever be the worse sound you can imagine. The roar for hours. Houses creaking from pressure. That was definitely a hard one to ride out. Lost everything trees half the house and even now fixing to be 3 year anniversary of this behemoth. A lot of people are still rebuilding. Or have just moved on. We are hour northeast of you. Makes your really appreciate the power Mother Nature can throw at you. But I gotta say. This dude did a great job filming and awesome composure. 10/10/18 forever ❤️❤️
Gotta appreciate this guy’s zen. Watching his property being ripped to shreds, and having the wisdom to know there’s nothing he can do about it so he might as well just stay calm.
I always find it fascinating that after all the destruction, there is such a beautiful sky. Glad you're both safe.
sir, I wish you and your mother a long life. You stayed in your house till the end and captured the whole hurricane. Thank you for the video. Greetings from Azerbaijan
I’m also in Florida, on the east coast. My heart broke for your guys that had to face the wrath of Michael. You got some incredible footage and remained so calm throughout the ordeal. I’m so sorry that you went through that but glad that you and your loved ones made it out safely. So sad about that beautiful magnolia tree. I hope that this is the last hurricane that you must face and your home, yard and vehicle have been repaired. Also, as for the color of the sky, it’s some kind of weather phenomenon. I went through Irma and Matthew and saw that after the storm the sky turned this incredible purple/ violet color. Sending prayers and well-wishes to you and your family. Stay safe!
Thanks for watching and for your thoughts.
From my point of view, the tree loss is the worst after effect. The houses will be repaired or rebuilt. That will take time, and its sad that so many people (nearly everyone) had damage. But, you can't rebuilt the trees, that will take many years.
We've had our roof repaired, including broken rafters. But there's still work to be done inside. A large area of the ceiling is water damaged. I'm still picking up small debris in the yard.
My car was more damaged than I realized on Day 0. The insurance company totaled it. I've replaced it with another smart with half the mileage. Same colors, but it's not a cabrio.
Interesting about the sky after the storm. I'm pretty seriously color deficient and couldn't name the color. I just knew it wasn't normal.
What's really amazing is that this man is so relaxed and calm in the face of utter destruction!
I honestly appreciated this video more than any storm chaser's footage. I can better relate with somebody who had to go through this hell of a storm because he lived in its path, rather than with a chaser dude craving for a footage. The sheer size of the devastation is impressive and I hope you'll manage to return to your "normal" life as soon as possible. Here in Italy we don't have storms of this magnitude, but earthquakes are a constant concern. I have seen many friends suffering from the consequences of an earthquake and having to patch up their homes and life in the aftermath. That's really sad. I wish you good luck!
Lost my house in this. Eye went over my home (I live in Callaway, Panama City Fl) and we had to evacuate in the middle of it to my neighbors house. This was due to a major gas leak and our home began to flood from the torn up roof and a gauge that was on the roof was completely torn off. I regret not giving my parents more reason to have us evacuate because of how much traumatic stress I have from it.
It takes a big toll knowing where you grew up and are still growing up(I just got my learners permit) has been destroyed.
I love his calm demeanor. This is a great video.
William Early i was freaking out in St Andrews you couldnt see anything at all it was like being in a pressure washer!
I appreciate that you had the insight to say the times while recording.
My Hurricane Harvey (2017) was a totally different experience from yours. It made landfall to the south as a Cat 4, weakened, then drifted off back into the gulf and proceeded to just sit there. I had various radars pulled up constantly, and I spent 18 hours inside of, or directly next to the heaviest rain band of the entire storm. The rain gauge 100yds away registered at a total of 49.5 inches in 24 hours. Just outside of my neighborhood there were cars with destroyed roofs, not from trees falling on them, but from getting hit by the propellors of the boats driving over them. The storm finally started moving again when the water was 6 feet from my doorstep, though only 5 houses down got 3 feet of water.
My 3 most clear memories: Neighbors walking through my yard at 3am to try and find high ground after their house flooded, watching 3 cars driving directly into 6ft deep water, and the sound of the wind. You can't describe what a hurricane sounds like to someone who hasn't heard it, and cameras just can't capture it fully.
It's hard to believe that the yard showing at the start of the video, is the same one at the end. The amount of damage there was insane. Glad you guys were ok though.
Glad this video blew up, honestly. Really shows the kind of damage a storm of this capacity can harvest, which is something that's always intrigued me.
I live in Central Florida and from the couple hurricanes I've been in after moving down here, it's never been as hectic as this cat-4 monster. Glad you guys pulled through!
I love how completely calm he is while everything he owns is getting destroyed. It just goes to show that someone understands property can be replaced, lives can’t.
I'm a life-long Florida residential, and as such, I have rode through no less than a dozen storms. One thing your video points out, and few others do, is how LOUD hurricanes can be. You're in a house with no power, just like every other house around you for blocks, and the only thing you can hear is the wind howling and debris flying outside. It is scary as hell. Keep in mind, these hurricanes last for HOURS! I don't care how calm you may think you are, it is unnerving to hear the POWER of a Category 4 hurricane just outside your front door.
Thanks for the observations.
Even though Michael's areal coverage wasn't large by hurricane standards, it left a track of destruction more than 50-miles wide. Well beyond a few blocks of our neighborhood, naturally. We knew this was true in real time as the storm closed in. That is awesome to think about, even as it's occurring.
Yeah, it was loud! So loud, in fact, that we didn't even hear the sound of a neighbor's roof being strewn through the whole block. There was just so much sound competing with what would be a frightening sound otherwise.
Wow...you provided an amazing & detailed video. Fantastic job! Too often, I see people trying to exploit the devastation & suffering of others in disasters like this. Your video, on the other hand, is truly informative. So well edited & presented...the timeline, added notations, etc. I sincerely appreciate you sharing this footage & providing details about the storm.
I cannot imagine going through something of this magnitude! While I no longer live there (& haven't for many years), I did grow up in Florida (Leesburg for several years, then moved to the east coast...W. Melbourne, Palm Bay area). I was extremely fortunate, never having to go through a hurricane. Tropical storm was the worst I ever endured. That was scary enough (especially as a kid) but this was a massive & powerful hurricane! I'm very happy to know that you & your family got through it safely..."things" can always be replaced but people cannot.
All the best to you...stay safe! Thanks for sharing.
Your calm voice through the mayhem…amazing! Love this channels content.
🐷🐷🐷💩💩
The loss of that magnolia tree breaks my heart, I hope y'all are doing well
Thanks for recording and posting. Hope y'all are doing ok.
This is a textbook example of the shift in wind directions when the eye passes directly over. Note the big magnolia only lost one side of it's foliage before the eye. The second pass took care of the rest.
Our grandiflora was stripped bare on it's SE side from Katrina (we're in Biloxi). It's still not fully recovered, 13 years later. All the pines around us will forever lean NW.
I’ve watched a lot of Michael videos and I feel like yours shows how hard the wind was pushing the best. Thank you for documenting and I’m glad you and the lady made it out alive.
Unbelievable!!! I live in Hamburg /Germany. We can't imagine, how powerful those hurricanes can be. God bless you all. Greetings and kisses from Germany.
I've been threw some terrifying hurricane's greetings from the United States
Uk houses made of brick nice to meet you
@@SekFuny So, you think the UK owns the market on brick homes? That's utterly bizarre, especially when you consider this video was recorded in a BRICK HOME in Florida, USA.
Hmm I have only been through 1 hurricane when it was a tropical depression (Ida) from Pa
Today, my thoughts are for the victims of the historic tornados that happened overnight. Horrible destruction and casualties.
Was this the kentucky tornado? That was a horrible storm. Powerful and long tracked. It's like it was designed to kill. Tornadoes hit cities more often than you'd think. So this will probably happen again soon enough. And it might happen to me.
It's crazy that this is the only planet that has life on it but it's so hostile to everything living. I guess clouds get real angry sometimes
@@13_cmi I was posting about the December 10-11, 2021 outbreak. Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_December_10%E2%80%9311,_2021
Earth might be the only planet with life in our solar system, but certainly not in the Universe. We evolved here, any other body in our solar system would mean nearly instant death to an unprotected human.
@@Vector_Ze yeah that’s the outbreak that had the awful tornado in Kentucky. It was something like 40 people in one town that died. And most of the deaths were in Kentucky. That really sucks.
@@Vector_Ze no. About people were killed in mayfield I guess. And debris was sent 30,000 feet up? That’s insane. That tornado wasn’t even as powerful as they can get. I don’t even know if an ef5 with almost 300mph winds could do something like that. It might’ve been the perfect amount of power for destruction and flinging debris. That’s almost plane level.
I can't believe how calm the narrator is. Glad you and your Mom are safe.
These folks are relatively calm but I'm telling you it is scary riding out a hurricane like this. My wife and I rode one out in Biloxi MS that was much weaker than Michael. This was a fast moving storm and they are all lucky it didn't park itself for 8 or 10 hours. There would have been NOTHING left. The power was off right away when we rode it out and it was nighttime. We had lanterns and flashlights of course but it was nerve racking. Rain blew into the attic from every vent and opening and soaked the ceilings. I sat there and watched sheetrock fall off the walls and from around the windows until you could see the 2x4 framing. My wife was losing it and I had to keep her calmed down. She thought the entire house was going to blow apart. Yeah it is not fun at all. Good job with the video work! This brought back a lot of memories.
Yup, you mentioned two of the "best" things about Michael, and we were fully aware at the time of the positives, if you can say a strong hurricane has any positives. It was fast moving and moved through in daylight. Although the 14-days without electricity following the storm seemed to last forever with unseasonably hot weather and no A/C.
Another fortunate thing from our personal perspective was that the winds were entirely east and west, with nearly all windows and the doors of the house facing north and south, so the strong winds blew parallel to the most vulnerable surfaces.
If we'd have had a breach from broken windows or doors, the house would likely have been destroyed, like eight other homes within a few hundred yards of ours were.
Thanks for watching.
Fellow Victim of Michael. I am so thankful that we left late the night before it hit. Something just came over us saying leave the area because we usually stay but I just had a feeling it was going to be a strong storm. We found a room in Gainesville FL, watching the coverage all day. Searching Facebook for updates but when the storm hit it took out every form of communication. I didn’t know if are families were ok. Was are home still standing? Our places of employment? Would I have a job? How long would we go without power? I am still dealing with the aftermath of the storm. My home was a total loss due to flooding but we had no flood insurance because there wasn’t a need for it or so we thought..creeks and rivers with natural springs were clogged with trees making ground water rise for forming a LAKE with my home in it…my storm didn’t end that day but was a slow death for our home as rains continued almost everyday with no where for the water to go but spread out. We had to use a boat to empty out the house which was built on piers. 6 ft deep at the max, now still about a foot deep.
I'm glad you and your mother got through that unharmed. The damage to property and especially the trees is sad. Here's hoping it is a long, long time before that area sees anything like that again.
Chances are good, hundreds of years.
Thanks for watching.
Wow, vicious winds! I’m sorry for the losses there, poor magnolia, and the oak. Glad you stayed safe. Pretty scary when that branch punched into the roof! Thankyou for sharing what it was like.
Very good job of documenting Michael and its eye wall. Thanks
I want a relationship as strong as that magnolia tree
Same here
Which one is the magnolia
For real 🥰
me too
Stupid comment stolen from other videos years ago.
Whoever made that white table made a sturdy one
You handled this storm courageously. It’s been about three years now . I hope everything has been fixed and the yard looking good again .
Tonight my heart goes out to the victims of Hurricane Laura.
Amazing, thanks for capturing this. I don't know why, but watching category 5 hurricanes in action is my comfort type of videos, lol.
They are fascinating. But, if you were in your home, seriously worried about whether or not it would hold up, you might not be feeling so comfortable.
The structure shudders, the sound is overwhelming. You can hear objects striking your house. It's stressful.
A woman two doors down fled during the eye of the storm as her home was being torn apart. It's now a vacant lot, along with 8-other destroyed homes within a few hundred yards.
Thanks for watching.
"Trying to do an emergency shut down... Windows decided to do an update." 😂
Oh yes, why not, of course!
@@didibolter9362 during the most definitely best possible time
Microsoft sucks
I just rode out my first hurricane in Punta Gorda, we took a direct hit from hurricane Ian and it spun over us for roughly 6-8 hours not including the outer bands. Our town will take a long time before it looks like it used too but we were truly spared from the storm surge. Wind Gust of up to 190 mph will truly set off one’s primal fear!
I hope you have rebuilt everything and planted a tree in your family’s trees memory!
Windows deciding to do an update at THE worst time possible was comical. Glad you're OK
I love how calm you stayed during the entire thing. Not like most people who go around screaming all the time.
Hi! I'm the guy who posted this video! And, I watch it periodically. Dayum, that was traumatic. And, watching it now and then, Sheesh! I can see why people question that I was calm, and question the stability of the garden table. Oh well. Life is like a box of chocolates...and I got Michael and not Ian.
Biggest one I ever got hit with was a Cat 2 or 3, but the big gusts looked like 5:12 to 5:18. Blue roof tarps everywhere after that. It was Wilma Cat 5 with 185 at some point, but reportedly was estimated at a 2 when it hit me, but it felt like more.
@@Polarcupcheck Let's hope the victims of Ian are few. One huge difference is the storm surge.
This video's view count has just exceeded the population of Bay County, Florida.
Well RUclips has recommended it - and i live in Athens Greece, just imagine that. Scary and impressive though. I remember i watched the event of Hurricane Michael hitting Florida half across the world through RUclips. Sitting at night in the comfort of my room and thinking about the hell all these people must be going through this menace.
Ain't algorithms today super smart or what?
PS: i 'm very sorry for all the damage to your property and town, hope you are all right by now...
@@manpetepetrop8034
Consider this: While you, and other people around the world, were watching coverage on TV, RUclips, and elsewhere...here, our 6-week news blackout had just begun. For the first week, we had local radio providing important information on the situation. But, only local information. We didn't hear about the horrible California wildfire until LONG after the fact, as an example.
Amazingly, the local radio stations went back to programming as usual after only 7-days, leaving us totally in the dark! That still pisses me off!
Six weeks after the storm, I finally bought an over-the-air TV antenna and the blackout ended. Several weeks after that we finally had internet and cable TV restored.
Two "good" things about the storm. For a week afterward, the night sky was free of light pollution due to there being no electric power for miles around, the Milky Way was actually visible. After a week, the light pollution began to return as distant lights started returning. Our power was out for 14-days.
And, for a few weeks, Donald Trump rarely crossed my mind. Two positives in a disaster area.
One weird thing about this video's view count. It was published on December 8th, and after 74-days It only had 258 views. That's when the hockey stick started forming.
Thank you for watching and commenting.
@@Vector_Ze
Jesus Christ... my mind can't even process the shitstorm that you people went through. It 's outrageous that your government (both state and federal), did nothing to help you out in this time of dire need. As for the news outlets (radio and Tv), i wouldn't expect any better : repairs are underway, and now sports...
As for the Orange Idiot in the white house, hell yeah, that was a good de-toxing for a few weeks i guess. PS: Being a seafarer myself i have seen several times the milky way and the glorious spectacle of a clear night sky... nothing compares to that. You 're welcome, best wishes...
As a resident of FL I’ve never watched it before hand like this. I’m glad you captured this. We’ve rode out a lot of hurricanes in the past but for some we have to evacuate. Especially during Irma.
What general area are you in ?
skids ftw around Putnam county, it’s about 1hr and 10 minutes from Jacksonville
@@LLewisASMR ahh you guys didnt get direct eye wall like we did in orlando
skids ftw nope but the two outer bands was just enough 😭😭
It's truly shocking how powerful a hurricane is. But hats off to you for staying as calm as you did. I would have been terrified
this man sounds so calm and nice, he seems like a really nice guy
Sir, excellent recording & even more excellent the way you remained calm!! I'd like you in my bunker if, God forbid, we ever need a bunker! I'm from AL (Tusc) & though we've seen our fair share of bad weather nothing I've experienced can match this! I am so very sorry y'all didn't get the national attention & help you should've had from the govt. I do hope y'all have recovered & have been restored to whole although I know nothing will ever be the same as b4 this hurricane. Plz stay well in these uncertain times, be safe & may many blessings come to you & yours in all your ways & for all your days
Amazing footage and incredibly well-done video. I love how calm you remain throughout the terrifying ordeal. You have some balls of steel! If we get a direct hit from Dorian (as currently projected) and I stay half as calm as you did I’ll feel incredibly proud. I am glad you made it though safely and hope the repairs were made and you’re now back to a somewhat normal life.
I live in Panama City Beach. We are very fortunate that the main thing we lost in this devastating hurricane that rocked my community was my husband’s car, our pool enclosure and several trees. A massive branch flew over the top of the house, nicked the chimney and came down upon my husband’s car. It somehow knocked the front bumper off, cracked the back windows, broke seals inside the vehicle and gouged a huge dent into the side of the vehicle. Thus, completely totaling the car.
Three years later and this community is still feeling the effects of this incredibly powerful hurricane. We have been limping along ever since and the Pandemic has not done this area any favors. You still feel and see the impact of this horrific storm in the wake of its tremendous destruction.
my heart literally broke when the magnolia tree was uprooted :( hope you recovered okay💖
This is one of the more “thorough” hurricane videos I’ve seen. You can really feel the stillness in the eye wall. I love the time stamps…really shows exactly how long a hurricane is from start to finish. Great video!
Thanks, I needed that Julie!
I might even suggest you check the feature length documentary (Days -2 to 37)
ruclips.net/video/ThzWh46wDDk/видео.html
Check the description with a linked contents list, since you probably won't want to watch all of it.
Thanks for watching!
Man I live in Callaway and that was a terrifying day...me and my wife stayed thru it and I will never do that again... when they said it was going to be a cat 3 I was fine with that we boarded our windows up and decided to stay but it changed very quickly and we had nothing we could do besides stay I've been through every storm that hit the Florida Panhandle since 1993 and this was by far the worst
It actually was the strongest to hit the Panhandle. But, in "fairness" to the other hurricanes, none of them hit Bay County directly. Opal, for example...the center crossed the coast 80 miles to the west near Pensacola Beach.
Thanks for watching and sharing.
Before I watched the whole video I skipped ahead to the end to check that you came thru ok. Very glad you did...
The sound of the conch blowing during the eye was was very eerie
I wish that I would have heard it!
Excellent film of this hurricane. You captured that unique sound that hurricanes make (I've been through a few). I am amazed at how well your house, the neighbor's house and shed did through this storm. Your houses are solid. I am sorry that you had to go through this and I am so glad that you are both okay. Take care and thank you for sharing this.
Thank you!
As a nature sound recordist of some experience, yes, recording wind sounds without mic noise is a real challenge.
Unfortunately, there were four houses within a five-minute walk which were completely destroyed, and many more needing significant repairs. One of the destroyed houses was just 2-doors to the west. Its roof was strewn across the whole block in the south eye wall. That house and another one have been demolished since. There are several others in the immediate neighborhood which are clearly beyond repair but remain standing so far.
Great coverage. You sounded so calm throughout the whole storm even as it's tearing up your yard and damaging your house. 🙏
Kudo's to you sir, for filming when your yard and house were being severely impacted. I hope the recovery was swift and hassle free. Greets from Australia.
1,000,000 view mark passed this morning, September 27, 2020 at 10:14 AM CDT - 659-days, or 1.8-years after publishing.
Thanks to all for viewing and commenting.
A few statistics:
Due to lack of internet connectivity due to storm damage, not published 'til 58-days after storm.
Four full months after publishing, view count was only 1,231. Then, YT discovered it.
Overall, average daily view count is 1,518 to this point.
During its most active viewing period, from March through April 2019, I was impatiently waiting for RUclips to grant monetization.
Average view duration is about four minutes.
14% (140,000) watched to completion, about average for a video this long.
Half of viewers dropped out by the 38-second mark, before the storm even hits.
There are spikes in views whenever an active storm threatens US landfall.
There has been increased viewership as it neared this landmark.
This video and your voice were both very calming, you earned all the views that this video received.
I live in Panama city Florida and my house got destroyed we living in a camper
I’m so sorry I hope now 3 years later you have a new home!
This is one of my most favourite Hurricane videos on RUclips.
Was in this storm, in Lynn Haven, was really lucky to have my house survive.
Lynn haven is more inland I think.
Amazing footage and you didn’t point the camera at the ground once, just amazing footage, can’t believe you were so calm, wow, thank you from a person who thinks 100 kilometres per hour is fast.
One of my favorite videos of Michael. Very interesting to see it from a homeowner's perspective, rather than your typical storm chasers. It's pretty incredible how much destruction it caused in that neighborhood in only like, 2 hours. I hope recovery is going well for everyone affected by that monstrous storm.
Takes a lot of courage to stand near the window to film. And such a calm narrative during a ferocious storm!!
For what it's worth, my camcorder has a zoom lens. :-) It doesn't, however, use film. :-p
The tone of my narration is just my nature. Panic in an emergency is dangerous.
Thanks for watching.
This is amazing footage, thank you for sharing. Glad you made it through the storm safely.
I'm from miami, and growing up with hurricanes, as a kid it's the most scariest time you can go thru. But in the past years it's like the hurricanes have become more ferocious, glad I now live in central texas. 🕊🙏💜
How you kept so calm in your commentary is beyond me. I would have been freaking out. All credit to you sir ! Hope that things got sorted quickly.
what a perfect capture. first half blowing one way. clear eye. second half blowing other way. great video!
I just dealt with Milton last week...one mile away from the official landfall but was relatively unscathed. Fortunately the storm broke up prior to landfall so it was less devastating than predicted, and nothing compared to this video. Just crazy. Glad you fared well enough to share this video
My two sons and I rode it out in Lynn Haven. By the grace of God himself our home was okay with minimal damage. This was my first hurricane on my own and was just glad to have remembered the precautions and prep from the hurricanes as a child/teenager. Doesn't mean I wasn't scared half to death though!
Unless you have lived through something like this I don’t think anyone should criticise the decisions you make based on the circumstances you are living through at that time. Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
YES🤩 That happened when I was younger! I used to live in Staten Island. Hurricane Sandy hit. After that, the flood was almost up to our stairs, cars in trees, a disaster. I feel bad for the place under us. We lived near a lake so that was a benefit(sarcasm).
Hmmmm... Native Floridian here & I love to watch mother nature's sense of humor. Big rooted trees fell to their knees in the mist of her during her work but a simple cafe table only flipped over once but look like someone sat it back up properly & the bird feeder (I think that's what it was) really were able to strong against a damn C4/5 hurricane. I be damn!! I love Mother Nature. She's so mysterious.
For the record, there was no crazed person running out in the storm to set a lawn table upright.
Wow! This is incredible video! You were so brave to open your door during this hurricane. So glad you all survived it.
Thanks for watching.
Due to the wind direction being perpendicular to the recessed door, the risk was rather minimal. Probably not much more than keeping the door closed and having the wall destroyed. Fortunate circumstance, also that the storm came ashore during daylight.
Anyway, I've been a weather enthusiast for more than 40-years and HAD to do my best to document this (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime event. The word brave doesn't seem to apply.
@@Vector_Ze Your video is incredible even if you don't think you were brave. :-) Glad you all are starting to rebuild. Such hard work though.
Dude much much respect for both your endurance and calm demeanor. Storm of the decade rolling in, circumstances that be keeping you from busting out, so you video log the whole damn thing hour by hour while it tears apart everything in your sector of the state save for your equally unimpressed patio table lmao. Please tell me that when it died down a bit you went out and flipped it off lol
I can’t believe how you were so calm throughout. Amazing footage. Thanks for sharing
This is the best hurricane video I have seen. Along side with the Jeff Piotrowski‘s legendary Blue Shed Eyewall live footage. This is mindblowing amazing. Respect and many thanks.
It’s definitely not safe to go outside right now... two seconds later he’s outside lol loves this guy. I’d be the exact same way. Never been in a hurricane but I know I’d be doing the same thing this fella is doing. Cool video! Hope everyone is ok!!
To be fair, between the time I made that comment and when I again opened the door, we spent some time huddled in an interior bathroom.
This video documents about 11-minutes of a storm which lasted hours.
But, thanks.
Sir thank you for documenting this storm of a lifetime. I have never seen such beautiful destruction occur from nature. I'm from Indiana and have been in some wild weather but nothing close to this. Hope you and your wife are doing well. Thanks for the POV!
Best video of a hurricane I've seen. Hope things are back to normal for you. Sorry you had to endure so much damage
I wish things were back to normal too
Thanks for watching.
So sorry about those beautiful trees but with respect for the way you kept so calm
This is the most educational film I’ve seen that shows what a hurricane does. So sorry for the losses you & yours suffered.
I stay in parker, five minutes away from Winn Dixie. I rode out this storm, thinking like so many of us here, that it wasn't going to be a strong hurricane.. I was extremely wrong. I recorded a video of my neighbor's roof being torn off. After that I got my brother's dogs that I was watching and put them in the bathtub and waited in there with them until the storm passed. Most of the houses on my road were made of brick but when I walked out, the brick that was part of the garage was lying on the ground. I celebrated my 30th birthday ten days after the storm. Needless to say, I won't be staying for anymore category three hurricanes or above, just to be safe. I'm hoping that y'all are still doing okay. Lots of prayers for the panhandle and other affected areas.
I don't know whether you were here in 1995 or not. If so, you'd have been close to 7-years old. I'm much older. I laughed out loud when co-workers purchased, "I survived Hurricane Opal", T-shirts.
Opal caused a lot of damage here, especially on the beach. But, Panama City was not the target. Opal crossed the coast 80-miles to the west. Michael was the first direct hit for Panama City in a lifetime. Ironically, PCBch was less affected by Michael than it was by Opal, and the news media gave the beaches more coverage than they did the harder hit eastern areas. Go figure.
I recorded a video of Opal in Panama City, it's in my Tropical Weather Playlist...
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@@Vector_Ze yeah I was for opal as well but I barley remember it. I was born on the afb in 88. Your right, no hurricane has ever done any devastation like Micheal has. I remember that Katrina was supposed to hit us but changed course. I sometimes wonder if Micheal was so bad because we had got lucky in '05 or some crazy end of days type thing. 🤷 Once I did get a phone after the storm, I spent time looking up hurricane records. Eloise looked bad but like Opal, it hit pcb harder than this side of town.
@@Vector_Ze yeah I noticed that most of the coverage was on the beach. :/ I suppose it's good reassurance for the tourists. I avoid that area and have always gone to crooked island. I heard the road to it is blocked off.
@@kmkkween88 Thanks for watching. I wouldn't put any credence in supernatural influences in the storm.
I was working here (WDLP) when Eloise hit. A friend and co-worker made a video of the experience on super 8 silent film. It's not mine to post or I would.
kmkkween88 my husband was two days short of being one month post quadruple bypass. At one point we closed all the curtains, crawled into our bed, and waited to see if we were goi g to live.
Am I the only person that was rooting for the little tree to make it through
Having lived through Hurricane Gloria in 1985 Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Super Storm Sandy this is as real as it gets. great footage. I am sorry about the damage your house incurred. I am glad you survived it,
windows deciding to do an update right before a hurricane hits is the most windows sounding thing I've ever heard
Thank you so much for posting - always good to have a frame of reference here in Florida when we sometimes underestimate the amount of debris. So happy you made it through 👏👍
Such calmness in the sound of your voice even in the midst of the STORM.
You've gotta remain calm in these situations, that way if crap hits the fan you can think rationally
My parents live out in Southport in an old run-down single-wide trailer built in the 70s. They stayed during Michael but it got so bad, they ended up riding the storm out in their cars at a park up the road. There weren't a lot of trees at the park. I think that's what they were afraid of, a tree falling on the trailer. Needless to say, there aren't any trees left. All gone. So sad.
Wow incredible footage. Hope things are going well for you now.
This is great documentation and will be viewed for decades to come
Wow, how come I am just seeing this video now? You know how many times I've searched for this type of video!
If you looked in the two months after the storm, you wouldn't have found it. We had no internet access until December 8th.
Tell your friends and thanks for watching!
Same here bro lol
WOW So glad the misses and you are O.K. but this is the best video of a storm like that that I have ever seen .You were so calm
The lady is actually my mother. It's her very well built home where we rode the storm out. My house was damaged beyond repair.
Thanks for watching.
I have lived in South Florida over 30 years. Our last bad storm was Irma. You enduring Michael was one of the worst. Very well done video. Thanks
Filming this horrific storm was a very brave thing to do, me and my family (Panama city) boarded up our windows, but the noises were enough. We heard the train on 231 knock over and it sounded like a bomb
I remember directly after the hurricane it looked like an apocalypse, all the leaveless trees and the clouds in the sky😬
Geeeeezzzz the power of Michael. Awesome footage man 🤙🏽 this year is going to be rough, Waters are hotter very early into the season especially south of Cuba, surface temp is 90+. Glad you and your family were safe
The water was very warm in 2018 too. 2020 is projected to be an active year, but at the moment a couple things are keeping a lid on it.
Thinking positive...an active year doesn't always mean a lot of landfalling storms, some years they mostly stay out to sea.
Thanks for watching.
@@Vector_Ze already two landfalling cat 1's, we really have to keep an eye on this season when the peak comes
Wow, so glad you’re OK. I’ve never seen a video of hurricane and blown away by the strength. Also very impressed by your calm demeanor. Thanks for sharing.