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- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+53Simulator? How about ... "movie"?
- radison2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36very depressing indeed. I mean some poor virtual sim lives in that virtual house.
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32i was hoping i could make my own hurricanes.
- tormented, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Won't someone think of the virtual children?
- roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Yep, same here. Lived in South Florida all my life, it is a very cool animation, however I have not seen many Cat 2 storms blowing the leaves off palm trees that easily. The leaves blew right off at the beginning of the Cat2 phase, which isn't really the case.
- DarkDays, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Nonetheless, it's still a good visual representation
- DarkDays, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Expansion Pack - Tornados
- affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The Sims: Hurricane
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8A category 3 storm is still a VERY strong storm. New Orleans was, geographically, one of the worst places in the U.S. for a hurricane to hit. That is why the damage was so bad. One of the other spots is New York City. Yes, NYC is very vulnerable to hurricanes.
- TenaciousMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Ive been through many hurricanes ( i live in the bahamas). Its not quite that bad. Places that are prone to hurricanes have roofs that are built differently, as to help prevent what was seen in that little animation. Kind of cool, though.
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, the media totally ignored the fact that Katrina really ***** up the Keys.
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I lived through Hugo (Cat 4, 135 MPH winds, 25 ft surge because of high tide when it came onshore in Charleston County, SC). It was my senior year of HS. I will NOT do that again. We had the eye come over the house for about 20 minutes. Tore a gigantic hole in the roof of our house, and generally ***** UP our entire town. Know what the ***** of it was though? This was 40 miles inland!
I feel for storm victims whenever Hurricanes hit. I've lived through one. They ain't no joke, and until you actually live through a big assed storm like that, you just can't know what it's like. - jdelsman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, I wouldn't really call that a 'simulator', but it does give the average person outside of Florida and other Southern coastal states a good idea of what a hurricane can do.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6At least it has the word Awesome in the description....
- H2SO4, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Where are the three little pigs?
- choc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Hurricane Katrina struck the southeastern coast of Florida as a category 1 hurricane then strengthened to a category 5 storm over the Gulf of Mexico. Katrina was originally believed to have a weakened to a category 4 storm just before making landfall at New Orleans, but further analysis by the National Hurricane Center showed that it was actually down to a category 3 at that point."
Interesting tidbit from the description in the simulation. - actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Cronus6, I live in New Orleans. The "hurricane education" you say we lack is a combination of:
A) Home Supply Centers don't carry enough wood to cover an entire city, and as such run out of the stuff very quickly when hurricanes approach.
B) Did you see all those people on the news who didn't have cars to get out of this city? Ok, now how the hell do you expect them go pick up wood?
Now stop acting like a dick. - gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7That looks like something that would happen in The Sims
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There is no mention of the looting...we need a looting generator
- Seta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Hurricane Tycoon anyone?
- charmedguy18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It way overdoes the cat. 3. I live in a small house near the ocean and was here during one. I didn't drown, nor did my roof fall off.
- actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How do you know what the his neighbors lost? Ivan tore up the the I-10 bridge across Escambia Bay:
http://www.ko4bb.com/Hurricane_Ivan/slides/Escambia%20Bay%20Bridge%209.html
Among plenty of other things..like houses with roofs.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/20/Weather/Pleading_their_way_in.shtml
Let's cut the one-ups-manship. - sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I love the west coast
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not bad, pretty realistic. One note: although Ivan made landfall in Alabama, the worst destruction was here in Pensacola, FL where I'm sitting. And, from personal experience, I can tell you that most houses will lose most of all of their roofs in 130 mph winds. This one (it's pretty new) did OK, most of my neighbors now have new roofs, and had significant water damage...
- user, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I lived through it, too. It was scary as hell to go outside the day after and see giant oak trees blown down everywhere. And that was inland as well.
- JackHallows, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Good representation of a bad thing, I guess.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"Not to mention the fact that in all the coverage of Katrina from NOLA, I noticed all the homes where they didn't even TRY to cover their windows with plywood, let alone hurricane shutters."
What an idiot.... We really didn't have that much time. I for one had to drive back to new orleans against contra-flow to get my pets and then evacuate again with the rest of the city - another 14+ hours in the car.
Besides, the wind wasn't really that bad in New Orleans.... - toby34a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Katrina was a strong Cat 3 when it hit. However, the majority of the damage in NO was caused by flooding due to the excessive amount of precipitation that fell from the storm and the surrounding thunderstorms. If the levees had not given out, Katrina would have been another near-miss in New Orleans, with some areas damaged, but nowhere near the devastation that was created.
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yeah, katrina and wilma were fun last year werent they? i relocated from LA to miami, i experienced the northridge quake living in LA and ill say hands down hurricane wilma was scarier than any quake. both the anticipation and length of time youre riding out your house like a boat hunkered down in your safe room with a rumble like freight trains. all these floridians are afraid of our quakes, heh. they win.
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3my pictures of the flooding from katrina in florida city and homestead.
http://www.cixel.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=2 - CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dam I was rooting for that tree!
- Cronus6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He's right, having lived through hurricanes David, Erin, Irene, Francis, Jeanne and Wilma I'll say the WORST part about a Cat 3 storm is the power outage that follows. Of course after the past two seasons most people I know now have generators.
You will lose some shingles, you will miss a few days of work, but I'll take that any day over a blizzard or earthquake.
If a Cat 5 is coming...run.
@CiXel...Andrew was a Cat 5. - topbravo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I was scared shi#less when Charlie hit me in Orlando Florida last year.... The house was rumbling and we lost power for 2 weeks straight, we had no gas or AC which was super hard. I think that if a CAT 3- CAT 5 is coming your way don't even bother with your earthly possessions , people can not be replaced, get the hell out of there.
- nphp20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not sure if he meant palm trees don't fall over at all (in which case, where were you during Wilma/Katrina?), or if he meant that they don't fall over as soon as they did in the simulator. Because yeah... they usually take a little more than a cat 2 to fall down.
And Cronus6, power outage is for sure the worst part. - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the reason is most tropical areas have really bad tropical termites so you cant make things out of wood and everything has always been concrete. not so with the gulf coast and florida. tropical climates and things made of wood = stupidity. but do you really want to see sheer idiocy? check this out
SEALEVEL WOOD construction in the florida keys using a building technique that in areas its used cant even survive strong blizzards-- only miles south of the hurricane monument that destroyed the keys in 1935. people really forget dont they?
http://www.cixel.com/coppermine/albums/recent2/IMG_0355.jpg - pairanoyd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Last year Hurricane Rita made a direct hit where I live, the eye came ashore dead on in our town. That was a lucky thing for us though as everything to the east ( called the "dirty side" ) of us took it up the ass. Cameron, LA is screwed and Holly Beach, LA is GONE..
We had winds up to 110mph, but there was preceding high winds that lasted for a full day before the eye hit and high winds for another full day as it left us.
All in all, our town was under assault from high winds for almost two full days.
My roof was stripped clean and my house filled up rain. Everything in my home was ruined from rain and mold. We were under mandatory evacuation for two weeks and Martial Law for for more than a month.
Had they allowed us to return right away most people could have mitigated the damage by tarping up their roofs, mopping the floors and airing the house out.
Because the houses remained closed up in over 100 degree heat and full of water for two weeks, many of us returned home to find the inside of our homes covered with 2 inch thick coating of mold.
A lot of homes (as mine was) were damaged more from mold than from the hurricane.
What was 3 thousand dollars worth of roof damage turned into $60,000 worth of mold damage, and that was strictly to the structure. The house must be gutted out. That does not include the loss of my personal belongings.
Where's FEMA? Damn sure not here. They are over in New Orleans handing out money with snow shovels but to Rita victims in Texas, we get a big F*CK YOU from FEMA.. So to FEMA, F*CK YOU BACK...
This hurricane season people will NOT be evacuating. The forced evacuation of MILLIONS of people was a nightmarish HELL.. We spent days and days in traffic jams that stretched hundreds of miles all across Texas. There was no place to sleep, no place to eat, no place to use the bathroom, no place to get gas. There were riots and robberies everywhere, it was the wild west gone very, very bad.
The evacuation was far, far worse than the hurricane.
In Texas we have learned a hard lesson and we will NOT obey any evacuation orders, ever again. We have generators, food, water, gas and guns. We will look out for each other and take care of things ourselves. And if we have damage to our homes we won't bother to waste our time f*cking with FEMA, we'll just fix it ourselves.
BTW, f*ck Katrina. I'm sick of hearing about that. New Orleans wasn't the only place that Katrina hit. Everything east of New Orleans is wiped clean. And Katrina isn't the only hurricane to cause people misery. - gh02t, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I was born the week Hugo hit... in South Carolina no less
- bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The National Geographic channel is running a fantastic two-parter on hurricane Andrew. What an incredible storm that was. I was only 15 at the time, but I can remember so many people headed up this way (I'm an hour and a half north of Miami) after the storm. Many of these people were half out of their minds. Most had survived the hurricane by the skin of their teeth. Many, many people were in homes that were partially, or even completely, ripped apart, yet they survived. It's a severely traumatizing event that isn't represented well by a small CGI graphic.
- Cronus6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You can think whatever you like about me, for the record though, I emailed my Governor (and received a reply from his office, not a form letter) about the need to open our hurricane shelters to you guys.
I was also disgusted and amazed to see a huge parking lot FULL of school buses (all under water) after the storm. Why did your local government not use those buses to evacuate the area, or at least SOME of the poor and elderly? I guess they thought it was a better idea to let you suffer, AND lose all those vehicles to flood water.
Likewise you were all screwed by a Federal Government unwilling to spend the cash on a system that could hold back flood waters of Katrina's magnitude.
The entire thing was the largest cluster-***** I've ever seen in my life. Your local and state governments totally failed you, as did FEMA (but really you should never expect much from FEMA, they are almost worthless). - schurkenstadt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What would happen to a regular european house e.g. one made out of stone instead out of wood like those fragile american ones?
- VPurpmalkV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was there for Ivan. And Charlie. Fort Walton. Those hurricanes ***** our town. I was without power for a month.
- spacyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Flashbacks anyone? That animation reminds me of last year, during Wilma, when I watched the roof of the condo in front of my condo rip off and the apartments on the top floor get gutted... shiver at the thought of this year....
- spacyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what type of insurance..i need to get some...
- alceria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This isn't really realistic. Most homes in hurricane prone areas are built to hurricane code. I currently live in Punta Gorda, which was in the direct path of Charlie a couple years ago (cat 4 hurricane). My house sustained very little damage. The only homes in my neighborhood that had severe damage were older homes not built to code, or the ones hit by spin-off tornados, which have much stronger winds. Also, the second poster was right, palm leaves don't come down in a cat 2. The dead fronds maybe, but palms are deceptively strong. I'm not saying a little wood house with an asphalt roof won't disintigrate in a storm like the animation shows, just that most people on the gulf don't live in houses that crappy, or if they do, they get the hell out before the storm strikes if they have any sense at all.
- actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Of course you're prepared for hurricane winds, you live on a peninsula. New Orleans is inland. Our danger has always been flooding, not wind. I stand my statement, you're a dick.
- Cronus6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ leobaby & actorboy... that was my whole point behind the education comment.
It's drilled into our heads here in Florida from Kindergarten to have this stuff ON HAND at the beginning of hurricane season, not to expect to be able to "run out" and pick it up 12-24 hours before a storm hits.
I already have 2 weeks worth of food and water and 35 gallons of gas for my generator on hand, as I do every year before the season begins...it's called "being prepared".
I stand by my statement, they must not push hurricane education in NOLA like they do in FL. - AJRiddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That makes it more extreme than it really is.
- Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The start looks like a bad snow blizzard
- humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1I like how it says Category 4 hurricanes are 131-135 MPH and Category 5 hurricanes are 155MPH and up.
I guess there's a Category 4.5 in there somewhere :P - blacklilyninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where is live we don't have hurricanes. Tornadoes in the summer and spring. This year has been pretty mild so far. But winter. It was the worst. You floridans and californians do know destruction until you lived through a ...deadly ...Chinook. Soon as those warm winds gently roll off the mountains not a single snowflake or ice rink is safe from its ravages. Fortunately the shingle of the roof remain but not a drop of snow was left. Northern puddles in january. A Chinook can completely devastate Christmas.
anyway.. yes bad joke. My heart does really go out to survivors of anything weather/disaster related. -
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