iCyclone's Hurricane Sally Chase: Intense footage from the vicious inner core of Category-2 Sally at "Ground Zero"-- the small Alabama town of Gulf Shores.
@@infected.1058 why were you still there expecting them to rescue you? Once hurricanes make landfall, the first 72 hours are on you. Lightly Abused, thanks for doing all you could. Which station were you in? Our place is on West Beach 3 driveways east from y’all. I hope all of your families & homes came through safely. We were praying for all of our EMS.
I live in Foley, that was a scary night. Had a huge pine hit my roof, and we got a little over 30 inches of rain which flooded the house. I don't think there was a powerline standing in Foley, took us 8 days to get power. The lineman are amazing and thanks to all who came from all over the US to help. The next storm better be daytime.
Same I live in Foley as well. I experienced the April 27th tornado in the Birmingham area and that was mental. Sally defiantly packed a punch and rattled me a bit.
The flooding and surge were terrible for this storm because of it moving extremely slow. This storm is a perfect example on why you shouldn't judge a storm based off of category
@@kathobson7046 we look to the experts, but they are often wrong. It is not cheap to evacuate, and many have already been effected by the pandemic. I was not in an evacuation zone, but I did fill up my gas tank and put an emergency bag by the door. By the time I found out the storm was severe, it was unsafe to drive. There was damage to my rental home, and I have been asked to vacate. I have no money and no where to go and am now facing eviction.
@@stephaniep1761 That is a tough situation to find yourself in & I'm sorry you're facing that. Are you from the area? Have you found resources to assist you? It's a tough time to find a full-time rental, especially the closer to the coast you go. I know that after years of hurricane watching & seeing what Ivan did to the entire gulf coast, I learned to listen to residents, not experts. I would still rather know a hurricane is coming than be taken out by a tornado that comes in the night with higher speeds & destroys everything in its path with absolutely NO warning. I will make a note of your user name & if I hear of any rentals I will let you know. Do you have a job?
I lived in Gulf Shores across the street from the beach in a condo. Sally ripped the condos roof completely off and the commercial sized air conditioning system. The roof landed in the Hangout parking lot across the street. The water looked like a lake through most of the city and because of our roof damage and water leaking in the building we ended up having to move because it took months to repair all the damage before power could be restored.
i actually live in gulf shores, and if everyone was wondering, most of us lost power for about 4-6 days, and i believe there was only 8 fatalities. pretty much every building away from the beach had somewhat of an impact. schools are resuming this coming monday, and we are recovering very quickly!
Despite the dark you catched the best footage from Sally! This storm reminds me of hurricane Dolly 2008. Small but a small intensive core and impressive winds. This season is insane!
Another Great night time hurricane video, Josh! Sally seemed it could never really make up its mind on whether it wanted to strengthen or not, till it made landfall (And also where to hit!) Glad you nailed the core of this slow & strong cat 2 Sally!
I got i believe either the very outer western eyewall, or just outside the western eyewall here in MobileAL. I got around 45 minutes of footage but was recording clips for around 6 hours while the worst winds were coming through. Thankful to have someone who is excellent at documenfing these canes down there in gulf shores near my aunts place. Icyclone you are the best!
@@iCyclone she did but she lives on fort morgan rd. Where it looks like some o the worst winds were recorded. She lives in a house rated for 250 mph winds for 24 hours and she said the winds made the house shake. She said it lasted around 4 hours
Your Hurricane Sally video kicked my Hurricane Sally video's butt!! I'm impressed and I subbed. Great job getting such amazing footage! I love Gulf Shores, I'm glad it wasn't hit worse than it was.
I saw! When I left Gulf Shores and drove N after the storm, I was really surprised when I got to Foley. Serious wind damage everywhere! Glad you're OK, Jenna.
@@iCyclone Thank you! You are a brave man! We finally got power back on Saturday. I've lived here all my life and have never experienced a storm like that one...that was one long night especially with 3 kids.
This storm was “worse” because it was so slow and had an effect of the whole county. But when you think back on Ivan it was blowing houses off the foundations in gulf shores.
Great job capturing such an unpredictable storm Josh. Man, what a bold, and such a smart move #HurricaneHouse was/is !!!!! You knew it, didn’t ya? Sure wish there was a way, besides following and watching your videos, to help support you. Awesome job as always. Be safe on the next one.
I don't think people truly understand how bad of a storm Sally was. Moved extremely slow it's entire life, dumping feet of rain in many areas, not to mention 100+ mph winds for hours on end and a surprisingly high water rise. How the name Sally wasn't retired is beyond me
Sally was my first hurricane, I have lived in deep south alabama for 10 ish years. I made a hurricane gossip group on fb, and a bunch of boomers and old people were so ugly to me "you haven't even been through a major hurricane!!" no, but sally a big deal for my family. We live in a double wide. My babies were 4 months old and 2 years old. We had no power for 10 days. I had to boil baby bottles in a crab pot on the charcoal grill outside. My most close neighbor had his roof completely ripped off. My other neighbor had a tree go through his bedroom and branch pierced his bed. Luckily he was resting on his couch. And yes! That moved so slow. So wild. Also they kept telling us it wasn't coming to us here. I am a big weather nerd and watch lots of diff at home meteorologists do their own predictions. One was an autistic kid and said it would come. We used our last $200 to get dog food and groceries, thank the stars we did. Anyways I am rambling. But I agree haha
This was a heck of a chase and you got amazing stuff as usual. Preceding the intercept Sally was really struggling with the environment and 24-36 hours before landfall the low-level circulation was entirely exposed due to SW'ly shear. I remember staging near Dauphin Island and all of a sudden she was vertically stacked and really looked like an organized hurricane. Pressure falls rapidly took off and before long the wind responded and we were intercepting a high end cat 2.
Watched Sally via satellite and radar here in San Diego. Pressure fell steadily all afternoon without much physical reaction by Sally. Then, in the early night hours Sally seemed to jump toward shore and she really popped. Another couple hours at sea coulda brought a cat 3. A storm cranking up is a very different beast than one that is faltering. Despite all the tools and technology at our disposal, Sally proves that predicting hurricanes remains an art - especially when they are meandering and wobbling.
2:47 really set the tone.. Tell you what we were vulnerable that night. A lot of us just brushed it off.. Didn't think it would do nearly the amount of damage that it did.. It did more damage to our area in Robertsdale than what Ivan did back in the day. And being a landscaper the next few weeks after Sally was rough. Spent the first 1.5 weeks without power in the hot humid nights then working 12 hours days without a day off over the first 2 weeks of recovery. We were out there helping customers and locals clear up debris while we were in the eye of the storm. Was devastating seeing all the damage.
Here in Destin, we assumed Sally would head off to Louisiana like the forecast said, but it slowed down and turned north and caught us off guard. We got about 25 inches of rain and my neighborhood flooded (but our house was fine), and we didn't have school for a week. I was only expecting some wind and rain but I didn't sleep at all the night that it hit because it was so loud. I was afraid the doors on my balcony would burst open from the sheer force of the wind (and they were locked and the handles were tied together with cord to prevent this from happening but still). It wasn't as bad here as it was in Gulf Shores or Pensacola but it was still pretty scary. Glad you pulled through.
Good thing that the National Hurricane Center, the National Weather Service, the Weather Channel, the State, County and Gulf Shores all told us to evacuate.... RIGHT? Cause WE NEVER GOT THAT!!!
I had the misfortune to be in a condo on the 14th floor in Orange Beach when Sally hit. The worst part was the fire alarm going off in the worst part of the eyewall! 14 flights of stairs right in the middle of 110 mph winds. No power or elevators. I learned to never stay on a floor higher than your weakest person can take the stairs. Most cars in our parking lot had at least one window busted out. I had every window on passenger side busted out and no way to buy plastic or tape to get out of there. Also car got hit by a chair from next condo over and dented my fender and hood. Luckily I was able to drive it to escape on Thursday. It was BAD, but the forecasting of it was worse! This video captures it well. Great job!
Yeah I would say Sally was cat 3 equivalent when it came to damage. Next year I will start chasing myself so if a storm hits the southeast US there will be a video from me.
You are very brave to be out in that. We were at SeaOats in Gulf Shores at the time this happened. We were up the entire night watching this it was very scary. We go there every year for a month and have experience many tropical storms this was the first time for a hurricane. I’m thinking next year going in October. Never want to experience this again.
I just want everyone to keep us in your thoughts and prayers while we recover from the most violent storm we have seen here in a long, long time. It wasn't just the wind. It was a combo of rain, flooding, tornadoes and surge. I can tell you it was scary.
I’m only part-time but we were praying before she ever got there. The similarities to Ivan, including the damage up 65 to Atmore, were unreal. We have been keeping all touched by this in our prayers.
I was staying in Orange Beach with family for a few months when this storm hit, and it was absolutely terrifying. My sister and I went to a friend's house to have a little hurricane party, not understanding just how intense that first night would get. Power got knocked out a couple hours after arriving, and we couldn't charge our phones to contact anybody. A massive tree fell on the house, the wind was throwing stuff around everywhere, and everything outside was covered in feet of water. The rest of our family was in a trailer park right on the water, and some of the damage there was unbelievable. With the flooding and lack of electricity, we had nothing to eat. Had to find a kayak flipped over in the water the next day, and paddle to a relief station to get meals. We ended up stuck there for 3 nights, until the water receded enough for someone to come pick us up. I'll never forget how surreal and horrific that experience was.
10:07 pm “This hurricane is moving really slow im losing my patience” A little after 11 pm “conditions are gettn really hairy i gotta get back to golf shores fast before shit hits the fan” 🤣
its looking better now, mostly everything is cleaned up around the area, schools are back into place as well there was 2 death's during the hurricane 1 after and 1 during from an elderly lady drowning
I live in Mobile most storms loose their punch close to land .. but Sally was getting stronger as it went in ... would have been stronger if not for dryer air on the west side that kept it from a Cat 3 or 4 ... scary
I lived in Gulf Shores inland off the island. Lost everything in that storm to flooding and storm damage. Took two months but I'm further away in an apartment that wasn't damaged too badly in the storm about 45 minutes away closer to Mobile Bay and not the Gulf. The drive to work in Foley isn't that fun but life goes on. The whole entire county was damaged and was hit very hard.
Potential upgrade to cat 3 in post season analysis, lots of Obs showed it possibly being a cat 3 at landfall, and those winds looked pretty intense, we shall see.
I live just 3 miles north of I-10 in Baldwin County and we got rattled too. Not as bad as those south of us, but then again when the storm is moving at 3 mph even a cat. 2 storm can pack cat.4 or 5 damage. Kinda reminds me of Dorian and what it did to The Bahamas.
Proximity definitely had something to do with it. He located to Bay St Louis, MS because of the pandemic and was close to several of the landfalling tropical cyclones this season.
My house was blasted. The areas west of Robertsdale were hammered. Most of us believe it was multiple tornadoes. 7 days without power, and now no water. I had to cut an exit from my driveway with a hand saw because I didn't have a chainsaw. The devastation is insane in central Baldwin.
Sally was a cat 2. A cat 2 can be very destructive as well... I went through Wilma back in 2005. It first made landfall as a cat 3 on the West coast of Florida, then weakened to a cat 2 when it crossed over my area on the East coast. It was still strong enough to flip cars over, uproot trees, bust some windows, break pipes, break stoplights and knock the power out for almost a month.
Katrina Elena Felix yeah but it was worse they even said worse than Katrina and Wilma was really nothing for the northern or western mostly southern Florida and the keys got it the worst not anywhere else
@@EX3STINCE I was born and raised in South Florida, I've been through my fair share of hurricanes and Wilma was by far the worst one I've ever been through. The Keys wasn't the only area that got hammered. The eye was very large, so the eyewall impacted pretty much all of South Florida. There are some videos on here that show what it looked like and what it left behind in Fort Lauderdale and Miami. You should watch them. It was only a cat 2, yet it looked like a war zone. And come on, Sally turned out to be worse than predicted but I highly doubt that it was worse than Katrina.
I didn’t realize how bad the surge was until this video. I live in Pensacola and thought it was super bad that morning of sally, I didn’t realize how bad the night before was for Alabama!!
im pretty sure that when i was around 5 and lived with my parents and grandparents, a cat 4 hit us and i was laughing. it was the only hurricane i experienced in my life.
Very brave of you to go out in this. I had attempted to sleep through but I have a family member that kept me up cause they were terrified. We couldn't see anything whenever we'd look out the windows we could hear it though
I did not see any. But sounds like that are common in the core of a strong hurricane. That's probably what you were hearing-- just the powerful winds of the hurricane's core.
I was on the other side of the mobile bay when Sally hit. This was a monster storm somehow only clocking in at a cat 3. We didn't have power for like three days even on the weaker side of it.
