Hurricane Ike - Florida Keys - September 8-9, 2008

[Kristanni20X6]

IKE FIGHTS FOR HIS FRIENDS

[KKamy123]

i love waqching the wind blow the tree a lot i was in some what of a hurracane and the wind was so strong it knocked the power out was when i was in florida but the trees where we lived in florida were stll ok just a lot of broken limbs and branches

[VCube100]

some of this hurricane's remnants hit ohio and we got like 70-80 mph winds

[dksfriend]

people can fly away like that because a hurricane is a very strong wind.

[sourdoughress]

Cool video. Amazing footage.

[Mintasaur]

Awesome footage. I truly enjoyed watching this. Do you mind if I use this for a non-profit school project? I'll be sure to credit you and whoever else needed.

[lego12356]

in the begging of the video isnt flroida butiful?

[NYjoshK1]

Hell of a video! One of the best hurricane/storm video's on utube!!

[MunchingGreen100]

Cool Vid. I Prob. would of Hid In My House Under my bed XD

[BOSEROCKS1]

Your really good at this!!! COOL! 

[AnimationAnimater12]

i wish ca would get hurricanes

[mainchow10]

You're lucky. TS Bonnie was almost absolutely nothing compared to that. This is so far the greatest video by you because it was the longest video. The longer, the better. Again, awesome video!

[NinjaxWebkinz]

whats a hurricane?

[Bapachingo]

@NinjaxWebkinz a hurricane is a crazy storm it can kill u it can destory buildings and it can flip over a house and it could flood. but it mostely comes to flordia thats what i heared it can be very big.

[portie147]

run!!!!!!!!!!!

[mquiroz90]

how can u see the hurricane

[jbr84tx]

Great video, vmax! I grew up in Florida and remember Donna, Cleo and Betsy.

This really brings it back. A minimal hurricane 150 miles away still affecting the keys with such force! It must have been a huge storm.

[WhiteBreadG]

7:40,thts Awesome,imma try that the next Huricane tht comes to Miami.

[BigDaddyFoot]

That was the worst hurricane i have ever seen.....and by worst i mean like that wasn't even a storm! that was a horrible excuse for a storm! i have seen WAAAAAAY worse

[iamcyberpunk68]

thats a sad excuse for a storm.

[WiredK8lin]

Mean hurricane.. it came on my birthday even tho idont live there :( CRUEL. UM UST HATE MEH

[ssullivan166]

I'm going here end of august. crossing my fingers there's no hurricane.

[polanski101]

Hate to break it to you but looks like Bill is gonna turn into a hurricane by the end of next week. Im goin to west palm beach on friday so i hope that it changes its course

[shepboy8]

wasnt there any rain?

[sourdoughress]

Camera cant pick up real rain

[DougM452]

im going here on monday :-)

[fivefamly]

oooo:( i'm glad i don't live anywhere near the ocean:)

[bumptybu]

Fantastic Footage My Friend and Thanx for Posting !

100*

Bump

[hurricaneadventures]

Great footage Michael!:) You did a fabulous job providing visual evidence of how significant sustained TS winds can be, while accompanied by winds gusting upwards of hurricane force. I was hoping for a S. Florida landfall to be completely honest...rather than the 22 hour drive to the Galveston Bay area I ultimately made myself. It is awesome that you were able too capture such fantastic video of both Ike and Gustav during daylight hours. A well deserved "five stars!":)

[xxfirestorm23xx]

hurricans theres a chance that it cant cut the power down but i dont no how many people still try to use power in a middle of a hurricane

[54spiritedwill54]

awesome hurricane footage :) my favorite is between 3:23-3:50. palm trees and wind are wonderful together :)

[SARUJAN5]

September 8 thats my birthday

[SevereIDAHO]

awesome video bro. Thanks for sharing. I love the intensity of the wind and palm trees.

[juderson2]

Great video

what was the peak gust you recorded?

[vmax135]

Thanks so much!!! The highest gust I recorded myself was 56mph on the afternoon of the 9th, in Key West, near the entrance to the White Street Pier... where the large waves are crashing at the end of this clip. However, during the late night and early morning hours from the 8th to the 9th, several spiral bands moved onshore the middle Keys with winds that were easily gusting between 65-70mph. The highest officially recorded gust in the Keys was 75mph from an offshore automated marine station.

[juderson2]

Wow, come to think of if it, IKE could have been much worse. It could have strike Florida and Texas. This tropical cyclone could have been as lethal as Katrina if it made landfall just a day after than it did. Ike was reinvigorating itself rather rapidly during landfall.

[SevereTstormFan]

great footage, wish I could have been there.

[vmax135]

Thanks so much! Glad you liked the footage.

[stormhunter27]

Love that wave footage at the end. Who were the idiots trying to get killed? Just some locals? (Of course, I tried the exact same thng in Galveston...) That surge was impressive. Did you get any wind readings yourself?

BTW - nice and clear video. I'm going to have to upgrade my camera soon.

[vmax135]

Thanks Mark! Yeah...the crazy behavior of walking out on the end of a pier, at high tide, with storm surge and waves crashing over them is standard fare for Key West locals during a hurricane passage. The highest winds we measured (using my Kestrel 4500) were between 40-55mph, but there were a few bands that easily produced gusts up between 65-70mph, especially on the night of the 8th and early morning of the 9th.

[stormhunter27]

i was seriously considering meeting you and Jim in the Keys if Ike came closer than it did, but the models kept pointing towards a serious hit somewhere along the north Gulf coast (but at night). Glad you guys got something outta that storm. Galveston was wild, but really hard to get good video due ot the night landfall.

Was there much damage in the Keys?

[ace3579]

Was that Tia that got slammed by that wave?

[vmax135]

Poor Tia! I'm sure she and Tio were tucked safely away in their house. Though, if Ike had stayed farther north and gone directly over the Keys, those waves would have been in their yard.

[ace3579]

I think I actually saw your cell fly by! Great video!

[vmax135]

HAHAHA... Thanks so much!

[TyphoonHunter]

Great video Michael. I love the palm trees and the audio's great too. As you said, an awesome show given how far away the centre was!

[vmax135]

Thanks James! It wasn't quite as impressive as Sinlaku, but for being 150 miles away, it produced some decent effects in the Keys.

[AtmosphericPhenomena]

Great footage as always Michael! I love the palm trees going every which way and your storm surge footage. Great to hear from you again. Very awesome storm surge footage!!!

[vmax135]

Thank you so much Nathan! I'm really glad you liked the footage.

[liquidstl]

Great footage. The video quality even on youtube is still amazing, and the shots themselves were great too :)

[vmax135]

Thanks Chris! I wish the strongest stuff had been during daylight hours but, even so, what we got was pretty impressive. I'm glad you liked the video.

[real0988]

A hurricane quite extensive if we speak in the Keys hit with such a tremendous winds and cyclonic storm surge .. to expect surprises us in 2009 ;)

[vmax135]

Thanks Roy! Ike's effects in the Florida Keys were significant, given how far away the storm was.

[cyclonejimcom]

Watching high quality version of the video really brings out the HD video quality. I need to get into HD before next year. Michael, you have the best this storm had to offer by far.

[vmax135]

Thanks Jim! For being as far away as it was, the storm was still amazing and produced some awesome shots! Thanks for letting us use your place as our base location! I'm sure we'll have much more to come in 2009...haha!

[huracanado1]

High quality stuff as always! Its an honor for me to chase with you guys! Hope to have better storms on 2009...

[vmax135]

Thanks Jose! I'm so glad you liked the clip. Even though we weren't in the core, it was still a really fun chase and I'm glad you were there. I'm sure we'll see 140kts in 2009! ;^)

[ColonelAngus75]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[vmax135]

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it.

[CyrusNixes]

I can see how your phone got wet... I wasn't aware that the winds were as strong as they were they day before - even before the sun set.

All of the footage around 6:00 and on the pier is great - amazing to me that it was a just a Cat 1 many miles away.

[vmax135]

Thanks Max! Yeah, my poor phone definitely bore the brunt of Ike's storm surge! Haha. It sucks that the strongest winds we had were in complete darkness (just before the American flag scene in this clip). Still, for being so far away, the storm produced some significant impacts in the Keys.