this video proves that floyd wasn't as destructive as hurricane hugo.....both pier 14 and the 2nd avenue pier and boardwalk (myrtle beach) were entirely washed away after that storm...the 2nd avenue pier was still being rebuilt nearly 2 years after hugo hit....
wow memories.. I lived on 42nd street 3rd row during that storm. We got lucky.. I remember 7pm curfews... All the sand up to the top of the stop signs on front row... Water running everywhere.. Houses gone, roofs floating in the ocean, 8 houses still unaccounted for to this day.... Scared the crap outta me..... I have a copy of this too... My ex brother in law taped the pier going down and also the beach the next day... I'll see if I can find it and upload it...
I remember the next day we went to the beach front and I remember seeing toilets, showers..the stop signs on the beach front were only about 3 feet tall from all the sand that got pushed up. and then in the following days the national guard showed up and there were hummers all over the place, you couldnt go to certain parts of the island unless you lived there..it was quite the experience. and you immediately notice that some houses were missing
I remember the next day we went to the beach front and I remember seeing toilets, showers..the stop signs on the beach front were only about 3 feet tall from all the sand that got pushed up. and then in the following days the national guard showed up and there were hummers all over the place, you couldnt go to certain parts of the island unless you lived there..it was quite the experience.
where did you find this video? I know that my family had a copy of it but Im not sure if we still have it or not. And to "Tarponcane," do you actually know why it was sold or just from what you have heard through the grape vine?
bought it at the pierhouse circa 2000. And Tarponcane is mostly right; combination of divorce settlement and skyrocketing insurance and property taxes due to the real estate boom.
The most tragic part of this is, as of July 2008 at least, the lot is still sitting there empty.
Depends on where you ask. New Hanover/Pender/Onslow counties and the triangle, Fran. Brunswick, and damn near everything north of the sandhills and east of I-95, Floyd.
Totally different storms!!! Fran was all wind and destroyed everything standing!!! Floyd was all water and destroyed everything not standing!!! I'm in Wilson, NC and we got hit by both!!!
im from greenville, nc i was 13 when Floyd hit us.. it flooded half of my town for weeks. right after we all went downtown to tar river estates to see the damage, and there were snakes hanging from the trees that had been blown up from the river.. nasty
@Bratt242 I was in greenville too! i was 8 but we were on the south side around winterville, No flooding but some wind damage, shinggles blown off, three pines trees knocked down, and alittle sturctural damage from those horizontal wood pillings on the outside wall, did you get any wind damage? the only thing you hear about floyd is the flood but there was some wind too, I lived in somerset apartments.
Me and my family was out there on Long Beach just on the Saturday before Floyd hit. We were on vacation, and had to leave the rental house at end of the weekend. My wife and I returned about 2 months later, and it really was a mess. I felt so sorry for the losses ppl endured. We go there on vacation at least once each year. I love Oak Island. Its just a cool place to go if you like the "laid back" life.
You and me both. I shot some video when they were dismantling it, but I fear that pilings standing silently in the water won't be compelling enough for YouTube :)
I hope the pier did not fall down
pineville85 1 month ago
Wow not cool !!!!
Tobinator76 4 months ago
this video proves that floyd wasn't as destructive as hurricane hugo.....both pier 14 and the 2nd avenue pier and boardwalk (myrtle beach) were entirely washed away after that storm...the 2nd avenue pier was still being rebuilt nearly 2 years after hugo hit....
domirules28 5 months ago
Der wen a'nudder paece. :). I lived in Charlotte and they cancelled school for this! No joke.
cmlancaster02 8 months ago
wow memories.. I lived on 42nd street 3rd row during that storm. We got lucky.. I remember 7pm curfews... All the sand up to the top of the stop signs on front row... Water running everywhere.. Houses gone, roofs floating in the ocean, 8 houses still unaccounted for to this day.... Scared the crap outta me..... I have a copy of this too... My ex brother in law taped the pier going down and also the beach the next day... I'll see if I can find it and upload it...
tuff1430 9 months ago
Did HURRICAE Floyd give y'all a wet-ass blow job too, g0ddammit?
wildmanchris200 1 year ago
Nature 1 - Humanity 0
johnalang 1 year ago
I miss that peir so much
Toddandy15 1 year ago
I remember the next day we went to the beach front and I remember seeing toilets, showers..the stop signs on the beach front were only about 3 feet tall from all the sand that got pushed up. and then in the following days the national guard showed up and there were hummers all over the place, you couldnt go to certain parts of the island unless you lived there..it was quite the experience. and you immediately notice that some houses were missing
ward0ward1 1 year ago
I remember the next day we went to the beach front and I remember seeing toilets, showers..the stop signs on the beach front were only about 3 feet tall from all the sand that got pushed up. and then in the following days the national guard showed up and there were hummers all over the place, you couldnt go to certain parts of the island unless you lived there..it was quite the experience.
ward0ward1 1 year ago
Very Cool Video!!!
philgardner100 1 year ago
So Sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Castilleroad 1 year ago
@Castilleroad Shit fucking happens!
wildmanchris200 1 year ago
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wmoniquesfashion 2 years ago
dang it should of went surfing lol jk
Dominatorzz245 2 years ago
git er done...heh. im from the south. now i know to mute my home videos
imdudits2 2 years ago
god i love long beach
wardolb 2 years ago
2.44 2.53 Monster waves are spectacular.
chizzywoo 2 years ago
yeah, thats what i have heard as well... but i have heard also that tom has place a bid on the Yapon pier...
ben71129 3 years ago
where did you find this video? I know that my family had a copy of it but Im not sure if we still have it or not. And to "Tarponcane," do you actually know why it was sold or just from what you have heard through the grape vine?
ben71129 3 years ago
bought it at the pierhouse circa 2000. And Tarponcane is mostly right; combination of divorce settlement and skyrocketing insurance and property taxes due to the real estate boom.
The most tragic part of this is, as of July 2008 at least, the lot is still sitting there empty.
revbleech 3 years ago
which was worst for nc coast fran or floyd?
ebutuoy4000 3 years ago
Depends on where you ask. New Hanover/Pender/Onslow counties and the triangle, Fran. Brunswick, and damn near everything north of the sandhills and east of I-95, Floyd.
revbleech 3 years ago
Totally different storms!!! Fran was all wind and destroyed everything standing!!! Floyd was all water and destroyed everything not standing!!! I'm in Wilson, NC and we got hit by both!!!
philgardner100 1 year ago
i would love to get a piece of those barrels
skimdeleware 3 years ago
i was just there last week!!!!
yupdatsmealy 3 years ago
im from greenville, nc i was 13 when Floyd hit us.. it flooded half of my town for weeks. right after we all went downtown to tar river estates to see the damage, and there were snakes hanging from the trees that had been blown up from the river.. nasty
Bratt242 3 years ago 2
@Bratt242 I was in greenville too! i was 8 but we were on the south side around winterville, No flooding but some wind damage, shinggles blown off, three pines trees knocked down, and alittle sturctural damage from those horizontal wood pillings on the outside wall, did you get any wind damage? the only thing you hear about floyd is the flood but there was some wind too, I lived in somerset apartments.
coolnick52 1 year ago
it hit mine on sept. 16, 1999. i was in third grade.
rw1999 3 years ago 2
It didn't destroy it know it all. It only broke off pieces of it that can be remade.
MrShowtime03 4 years ago
it flood us out too i 40 was flood out too! we never moved back into or home again because of mold!
tonyt55 4 years ago
Lol, I remember Floyd too. Floyd hit my place on September 17, 1999, and holy shit was it a tropical storm at 50 mph.
Copper20 4 years ago
thank god clinton was in office and not that asshole bush!
tonyt55 4 years ago
my basement flooded for floyed and out of school for a week
justintime2989 4 years ago
I remember Floyd it flooded the whole damn city. Wilson NC
dirtysouthtim69 4 years ago
Me and my family was out there on Long Beach just on the Saturday before Floyd hit. We were on vacation, and had to leave the rental house at end of the weekend. My wife and I returned about 2 months later, and it really was a mess. I felt so sorry for the losses ppl endured. We go there on vacation at least once each year. I love Oak Island. Its just a cool place to go if you like the "laid back" life.
sgilreath 4 years ago 4
Spent many days as a kid fishing on that pier, sad to see it go in 99. It got torn down again in 2006 due to greedy wife in divorce!
Tarponcane 5 years ago
You and me both. I shot some video when they were dismantling it, but I fear that pilings standing silently in the water won't be compelling enough for YouTube :)
revbleech 5 years ago
Is there anything more painful than listening to%
knobchock 5 years ago
"What a nice wave" haha. Crazy.
fenianguy 5 years ago
Yet another reminder to NEVER talk about 'extreme' weather here in the UK. Jesus. Having said that, I'd probably be one of the stupid yahoos filming.
Goatherder 5 years ago