😮 😢 My beloved beautiful Gulfport was literally destroyed on August 29,2005. Now August 2024, my beloved Gulfport has been restored and beautiful once again. I survived Camille of 69 and Katrina of 05.What still haunts me about 69 and 05....is sidewalks leading to nowhere. 🧔
That is definitely an eerie sight, it's a reminder of what once was. When I visited Gulfport a few years after Katrina I saw those sidewalks to nowhere. I'm glad that you survived two of the most violent storms to ever hit the Gulf Coast in modern history. And I'm happy to hear that you have recovered.
I was 15 when the storm him and I was in D'Iberville, just north of the back bay (other side of the bay from Gulfport). it was utterly terrifying. I've been back once since we moved away. straight PTSD. I couldn't sleep the whole week I was there. I try to desensitize myself by watching stuff like this, and honestly, it's kinda working. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for retelling your story. This storm was terrifying for somebody who was there firsthand of any age, much less somebody who was only 15 at the time. I can totally understand the emotions you went through not only during the storm, but when you went back to visit. I'm glad that the video has helped you a bit, I used to be absolutely terrified of thunderstorms when I was a small child, so I kind of did the same thing you did and go straight into learning about them and it really did help. Literally to the point that I now Chase storms lol. Take care and thanks again for sharing.
27:02 the expulsion of the water was impressive! Some good mesovortex action in this segment to, not to mention scattered flashes of lightning. I think isolated gusts may have been even higher than reported, but due to failure in instruments we'll never know. Great video Scott!
Thanks John! And yes, the expulsion of water was definitely impressive as was the influx of storm surge initially. My Chase partner Dave actually did have an anemometer set up but it failed when it was hit by debris in the middle of the storm. At that point it already registered a gust over 110 miles an hour, long before the worst of it hit.
From what I've read it's between 8 and 10 inches of rain fell over the area, but exact measurements are very hard to come by because so many rain gauges failed during the storm.
Hi Michael. I first used Topaz AI to upscale the original SD footage to HD, and then took the upscaled footage and edited it all together in Adobe Premiere Pro.
It certainly would have been worse than it already was in New Orleans. They got the flooding rains obviously, but they would have had the brunt of the Winds on top of that.
So much debris! I don't think I've ever seen buildings being torn apart like in this video. Amazing footage Dave & Scott! Hope my heart rate slows before bedtime!! 😊
Total agree Lori! Gulfport at the time unfortunately was filled with older buildings that just could not withstand Katrina's wrath. The debris was insane!
I don’t think Katrina was a cat 3 at landfall it looks more like a cat 4 -5 hurricane . I don’t know why the news keep saying it was only a cat 3 with 120mph those winds looks easily 130-150
I believe it was a borderline 3/4 when it first made landfall near the town of Buras in southeast Louisiana, but weakened to a strong 3 prior to getting to us in Mississippi. Definitely splitting hairs though at that point as it certainly carried with it a solid Category 5 storm surge!
