Hurricane Wilma winds

[das8929]

It is crazy but I have never really seen a forum discussion about Hurricane Wilma and the associated wind speeds and damage in South Florida. It was interesting to me because before looking over the videos I thought it took Category 4 wind speeds to flip cars. I assumed this because in the many videos that I had seen of Hurricane Michael, Ian, Ida, Laura, I saw many decently strong wind videos but barely anything showing flipped cars. I myself was outside during Hurricane Wilma and got my money maker kicked, getting rolled over and unable to stand in many occasions. The videos I see from such recent hurricanes don’t look much, if any stronger than what I felt in Wilma, and apparently I got strong Cat 1 to weak Cat 2 winds then. Is it just me? The Wilma videos I have seen and remembering what I witnessed, they seem a hell of a a lot stronger than any hurricane that his hit Florida recently. The only hurricane I could say that has maybe eclipsed these videos and what I have encountered would be Michael.

 

[das8929]

Some videos I have seen lately are astonishing, especially Beryl in Carriacou. Apparently still only in the high 940s but that wind looks stronger than any Dorian footage I’ve seen.

 

[das8929]

It is crazy though because in the Wilma footage there’s tons of flipped cars but it seems that the only footage I could find after Wilma showing flipped cars is Irma in St. Maarten/ St Barts

 

[Mike S]

We had a very long thread on Wilma as it unfolded on the old board. Somewhere out there it might still exist in an internet archive site, though they tend to be verrrrry slow to navigate.