>I’m here, Miami Beach (North Miami Beach – Sunny Isles Beach, still Dade County) since three years. I cannot believe how this hurricane curse can be so frequent!
>Jeanne (the 5th) just left causing no remarkable damage in my area, but… two more are “raising” and heading to FL! Well… the mayor of Miami said: “This is the price you have to pay for living in a tropical paradise”….. (???)
>I don’t know, should I move again? Any profitable work outside FL? :)Ahh Fabian don't be a crybaby. You have not seen a hurricane yet. All Sunny Isles got this year is tropical storm winds. NBD. In fact, Sunny Isles has not seen a hurricane hit since Betsy in 1965.
The biggest storm to hit the area since then, was Andrew in 1992. Andrew did not hit Sunny Isles, or Miami Beach for that matter in force, but Homestead and South Miami. NMB got only gusts under 60mph during Andrew. I know, I was here.
And I just went through the same ones you did (BTW Jeanne is the 4th, not 5th to hit Florida his year). Charley came in through Punta Gorda and Ft. Myers, Frances came in near Stuart and Ft. Pierce, Ivan hit the Panhandle near Pensacola and Jeanne today hit again between Stuart and Ft. Pierce.
The poor guys in that area really took it hard, getting two major storms in three weeks. Dade County, so far has not had a real hit since Andrew 14 years ago!
As an explanation for the readers not familiar with our local geography, Sunny Isles is on the east coast of Florida, just North of Miami Beach but this time over 70 miles away from the center of the hurricanes in question. On top of that, we in Dade County (South Florida), were lucky to get the left side of both Frances and Jeanne. Due to the physics of hurricanes which tun counter-clockwise, the left-side is the weaker side. On the East coast of the USA, the left side means the winds come at you form the West-North West, so you do not get the dangerous surge from the ocean. The people on the right side of the hurricane (plus of course the ones that get a direct-hit by the eyewall), get the full force with the winds going against the coast, so the could be a surge of over 20-feet (6 meters) at high tide. Bad news indeed!
BTW, a hurricane is not a "curse" but a force of nature. It just happens. And as they said, if that is the price you pay to leave in this beatiul place, so be it. At least with today's technology we can see it coming and know what to expect and be prepared.
