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.
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 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.
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!
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 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.
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
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!!!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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” 🤣
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was in orange beach next to ono island bridge. We had to hold the door shut from 2:00am to 5:00am or it would have blown open. I wish you could have seen the damage on that end.
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!!
I’m a firefighter in gulf shores, that night was one of the scariest shifts of my life. It got so bad that we had to stop running calls at midnight
so thats why you didnt answer our call at 2:am in the morning
@@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.
God Bless you, Lightly Abused. It WAS scary!!
@@kathobson7046 ahem my brother got injured badly
yeah and thats just a Cat 2....
Some fun fact: SALLY made landfall on the 16th "anniversary" of IVAN's landfall...in the exact same area. Yep.
Wow
That’s crazy
Coincidence? I think not
@@syncretism_ No thats just 2020 for ya.
I already knew that
You were ready to speak to the storm's manager at 10:07pm.
Totally. 😃
@@iCyclone my name is James and I would like to go hurricane Volging with you sometime
I'm your biggest fan by the way
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
I agree
@John Boudreaux yup hurricanes are alot worse than tornadoes
But hurricanes you know are coming & can get out of the way. Not so with tornadoes.
@@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 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.
I live in Saarland and we didn’t get it bad, but we were praying for those on the other sides of the bay.
I was at my dads in Foley too. We lost 3 trees. Roof was done just weeks before so it is in fine shape.
Same a tree went through our house on 59
I live in Louisiana. After Laura, we was out for 10 days
that's why I love icyclone, all the hurricane chasing videos are amazing and professional,
Thanks so much, Chris.
CHRIS gonzales I agree
Another fine video by iCyclone, thanks for braving the elements to bring us this footage!!!
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!
Eight people didn't die, stop making things up.
L G wikipedia says 8 fatalities total, could be false.
Same I was in Saarland
L G if anything at least...maybe 2 people died? One was crushed by a tree trying to clean up but I dunno about the other
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!
Hey, thanks! Glad you dug it.
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 live in Foley, Alabama which is about 5 miles north of Gulf Shores and we had so much damage!! It was way worse than Ivan!
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.
I'm on the edge of gulf shores. It was awful. My first hurricane experience
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.
@@craftypenpalmoma I’m in saraland and we didn’t get it terrible but y’all got it bad!
I live in summerdale and this storm was terrifying. I woke up to windows breaking and trees falling on my house. It was so devastating
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
Didnt think you would record this one but now im happy you did.
Simply amazed with hours and hours upon hours of brutal conditions, just how long power was able to hold on during the mayhem...
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!!!
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!
Lol “I’m just done with this storm already” 🤣🤣
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.
I was here and lived through it. It was a SHIT STORM! Direct hit!
Great footage Josh, This season has been a interesting one for all of us.
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!
Aww, thanks so much, man! Glad you enjoyed my video-- and I hope your aunt made out OK.
@@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
ITS HERE!! Sorry I was sleeping when the upload came out! EPIC Footage!!
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.
Hey, thanks so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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.
You went through so many hurricanes. In fact I was in hurricane Laura the wind speeds were 79+! This is insane how brave you are.
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.
Love the inside look to the hurricanes, found your channel about two weeks ago and have watched a lot of your videos and loved them.
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.
Yeah, if you're not into it like I am, a hurricane can be a scary experience. Thanks for watching the video, and glad you made it through OK.
Brave is NOT the word I would use to describe this nut jobs behavior.
sally had one of the most violent and vicious inner cores of a cat 2 i have ever seen
I was just thinking that too!!
It didn’t even look like a Cat. 2
@@tjohnson2139 ikr
I have been here since Danny. No way this was a 2.
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.
Was an awesome storm for sure. I think it took all of us off guard at the last minute.
Was awesome getting to meet you out there!
Likewise, man. See you again soon, I'll bet.
Thanks for yet more great footage Josh.
Been long time we didn't see any filming from you.
Glad to hear new things from you.
Be safe
Nice one Josh! Cheers for the vid. Stay safe fella.
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!
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.
It was much stronger than I was expecting as well. Glad you made it through, Tyler.
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.
Watched your old vids yesterday...you're so brave!
Love your videos im a weather geek 🤓 I been following you for years! Thank you for all your hard work and data.
I love this channel because it's so interesting and watching a guy go in a hurricane its amazing
Now this man is brave enough! Barely no one could ever record this much strong footage!
You’re so brave doing all of these hurricanes!
thats why he is called the "hurricane man"
Not sure he is brave, but 110+ mph winds and not a hair out of place, that is amazing.
Great work Josh.
Awesome footage!
Wow that hurricane did some damage glad that everyone is okay I hope.
Actually, sorry to say this but there has been some people that died.
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.
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” 🤣
Super video Josh !👍
Nice job! Covered what I wanted to see.
I tracked this storm from Perth, Australia and this one worried me. Not as bad as Laura but still a beast and may god bless all the victims of Sally
See! Don't you think it was a category 3!
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
@@mhctracking8576 not really
@@82ghall you got really lucky mate
Wow. Amazing footage as always! 👍
Awesome video. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks, JoAnn! Glad you dug it.
Just subscribed. Love the videos.
Woah 2020 sure brung you back ,2 new Vids??!, anyway, be safe, and respect for putting your life at risk for our entertainment, thank you.
This channel is underrated!
Thanks!
iCyclone You’re welcome!
Im Kinda Sad ilI Remember Going To Gulf Shores October 7 - October 10 2019 And It Was Beautiful..Miss You Gulf Shores 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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 was there in 2018. I miss Gulf Shores
@@trafalgarlaw6603 mostly tourist now, not worth going back
@@connorz3802 I worked there in 2018. I have a friend who lives there and she said it is normal now. I miss the place
He said he was loosing his patience with a hurricane like he was gonna ask it to square up lmao
I liked how you said, "its not even here yet and im already done with this storm"
Finally a vid from you
I posted another one a couple of weeks ago.
Can’t wait for Delta’s chase
I think Sally was a cat 3. It was too violent and strong not to be.
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.
No it wasn’t they are just as strong I have been in many hurricanes in my life
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.
Dude, big fan. You got great content keep up the good work!
You get the best footage and angles :)
If I had not been paying attention to Sally and just saw this video, I would have thought that was a solid cat. 3. Great footage.
I haven't seen Josh do a hurricane that's never reach major hurricane status...but this is still as interesting.
This was still a life changer
AngelPandaEarth he covered Ike tho wait but im not sure if it was C3 at landfall but still good vid
He covered hannah as well and that was a cat 1 90mph
@@shawnmichael2305 and Isaias...
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.
Hey Josh. Did you get a capture of hurricane iota?
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.
Great video!!
great channel, extremely educational
Thanks so much.
I live in elberta Alabama about 10 minutes north of gulf shores and we got hammered flood waters were over the hood of my Tahoe
Fun fact-
In June I went to orange beach Alabama- but also golf shores the other half of the week
Great eyewall footage!!
Thanks for the video man. Did you get any footage of anything up a little further north hwy 59?
Love these so much!
am i the only 1 who thought the thumbnail was a homescreen on a desktop pc
It's still from this video.
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 can understand that. It was scary. Glad you guys made it through OK. Thanks for the kind words.
@@iCyclone Glad you did to. Did you see any tornadoes while you were driving around? We thought we heard one overhead at one point.
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.
Excellent video as always Josh!
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.
The funny thing is, is that I left that exact beach two days before it happened
If Sally was stronger, she would've gotten her name retired instantly.
the lights...the shots around midnight... like someone set them there for you! sweet!!
Great video thank you 🤗🤗
Can you please tell me what is the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane I'm curious. Thank you
This was my first hurricane and it was terrible!!! Still trying to get over all the damage we got!
Same here. I'm seeing comments and I'm like.. BUT I WAS ACTUALLY IN IT!!
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.
also, im getting a lot of wind. i think that its remenants of sally.
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.
What is the pillars of blue light the camera is having trouble rendering on the Best Western?
this year two hurricanes made landfall on my siblings birthdays. Laura on the 27th of august and Sally on the 16th of september
Great video
Very interesting as always. Definitey seemed like more of a slow-burner than a big bang
Stay safe
I like how he reads his comments
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.
This was the longest week of my life
I was in orange beach next to ono island bridge. We had to hold the door shut from 2:00am to 5:00am or it would have blown open. I wish you could have seen the damage on that end.
It was weird because when sally struck in gulf shores i had gone there a couple days before and it was sunny
That's the way Hurricanes ...do!
@@djonpow well yeah
Keep making hurricane man episodes
I was actually up there in Quincy. I can tell you this, Sally was no joke
I'm dieing for a new episode
wow.. amazing work
Thank you. :)
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!!
Me: freaks out when i hear theres a hurricane
Also me: watches videos on it not long after like its nothing
I love your videos. I love storms, too.
Hi this was a great footage I love your videos to
I live in mobile al and our power was off for a week and the street lights didn’t work either