i was 10 years old. i live in elberta which is in baldwin county. this is definately where the most damage occurred. all i can say is, there used to be a lot more pine trees, then hurricane frederic came a long. it looked like someone had trown a box of matches on the road. we lost a 300+ year old oak.
i was 10 years old. i live in elberta which is in baldwin county. this is definately where the most damage occurred. all i can say is, there used to be a lot more pine trees, then hurricane frederic came a long. it looked like someone had trown a box of matches on the road. we lost a 300+ year old oak.
I was 18 and at a Hurricane Party on South Monterey St. in midtown Mobile. By the time we arrived we knew that we had to stay where we were and wait for the storm to pass. A 200 year old oak fell on the house we were in and we actually walked out during the storm and held onto each other to keep from being blown about. I can still feel the acorns hitting me at 100+ mph. The day after we rode to the causeway and thru town and saw first hand the massive destuction. It made me cry.
I was in Arkansas but my dad rode it out in Mobile. We talked intermitently until the lines went down. I could hear the roar over the phone. My uncle lost his beach house at Ft Morgan, but rebuilt and the current one has survived everything since. I was just there on holiday (I live in London). The Alabama Coast is indeed Paradise, but with a price!
i rode the storm out on keesler afb, biloxi, i was 18 then..lol. im 47!. tornados did alot of damage in our court. 2928 passroad, some had trees in them , ours was ok, screendoor and light damage, we were fortunate, still have still photo of the aftermath, our neighbor rode out the big one that came through 10 yrs earlier to the day i think,,,camile?,,not sure of name at hand, well, cool video, !
I'm stunned. I was 17 when I survived Frederic with my best friends. Some of us still bear the scars. My brother was lost from fire due to lightning as an off shoot of the storm, 75 miles north of Mobile.
I was 5 and I remember everything about it. We stayed at the days INN on 90 and the whole top floor blew away with us in the bottom. THe national guard came to help! It was crazy.
Hey Chris - Yeah, the organizational structure of several hurricanes on radar (like Rita) are reminicent of this Frederic loop... especially if the storm has just completed an eyewall replacement cycle, with a strengthening outer-eyewall. I just did an analysis between this loop and some recent radar images from Hugo's landfall from San Juan, Puerto Rico's radar and the similarities are striking.
i was 10 years old. i live in elberta which is in baldwin county. this is definately where the most damage occurred. all i can say is, there used to be a lot more pine trees, then hurricane frederic came a long. it looked like someone had trown a box of matches on the road. we lost a 300+ year old oak.
ericlenz 1 year ago
@ericlenz yep i was on my sons youtube! ha ha, no, he is named after my dad!
ericlenz 1 year ago
i was 10 years old. i live in elberta which is in baldwin county. this is definately where the most damage occurred. all i can say is, there used to be a lot more pine trees, then hurricane frederic came a long. it looked like someone had trown a box of matches on the road. we lost a 300+ year old oak.
Frederick13rl 1 year ago
I stay at Fort Morgan, Alabama all of the time on vacation. Even today you can still see many pilings sticking up with the houses ripped off.
Baxteronsteroids 1 year ago
You're sure that was the Mobile radar? It looked more like the Slidell/New Orleans radar?
PelicanGuy 2 years ago
Thanks, Buford... you're correct, this sequence is from the Slidell site. I've corrected the description.
vmax135 2 years ago
I was 18 and at a Hurricane Party on South Monterey St. in midtown Mobile. By the time we arrived we knew that we had to stay where we were and wait for the storm to pass. A 200 year old oak fell on the house we were in and we actually walked out during the storm and held onto each other to keep from being blown about. I can still feel the acorns hitting me at 100+ mph. The day after we rode to the causeway and thru town and saw first hand the massive destuction. It made me cry.
PaulsDena 2 years ago
I was in Arkansas but my dad rode it out in Mobile. We talked intermitently until the lines went down. I could hear the roar over the phone. My uncle lost his beach house at Ft Morgan, but rebuilt and the current one has survived everything since. I was just there on holiday (I live in London). The Alabama Coast is indeed Paradise, but with a price!
RVP57 2 years ago
i rode the storm out on keesler afb, biloxi, i was 18 then..lol. im 47!. tornados did alot of damage in our court. 2928 passroad, some had trees in them , ours was ok, screendoor and light damage, we were fortunate, still have still photo of the aftermath, our neighbor rode out the big one that came through 10 yrs earlier to the day i think,,,camile?,,not sure of name at hand, well, cool video, !
GUYPRO30 3 years ago
30 years ago almost...sooner or later it will happen again. BE PREPARED!
foreverhulkamania 3 years ago
I rode this storm out in Atmore, Alabama. It was a really rough night.
earthsmightiestblog 3 years ago
I'm stunned. I was 17 when I survived Frederic with my best friends. Some of us still bear the scars. My brother was lost from fire due to lightning as an off shoot of the storm, 75 miles north of Mobile.
This brings up deep emothions.
Thank you vmax135 for posting!
zakkwylder01 4 years ago
Thank you for the comment Zak, I'm so sorry about your brother.
vmax135 4 years ago
I was 5 and I remember everything about it. We stayed at the days INN on 90 and the whole top floor blew away with us in the bottom. THe national guard came to help! It was crazy.
Astred1213 4 years ago
Yeah, I have a cousin that stayed there with her family. She said she would never stay in a motel during a hurricane again.
I stayed in Irvington,Al. but my home is further south. Everything was torn up. Pine trees snapped everywhere.
alagumbo 3 years ago
I remember this it put a pine tree on our house that night.
hairbandfan 4 years ago
the eye went over my house, i was in h.s at the time. it tore theodore,al to pieces. in 1979.
SABBATHKEEPER 4 years ago
hmmm its eyewall structure kinda reminds me of Rita in 2005, and the big eye kinda like Wilma a few yrs ago too.
(btw did u see the wilma loop that had a number two in the eye??)
liquidstl 5 years ago
Hey Chris - Yeah, the organizational structure of several hurricanes on radar (like Rita) are reminicent of this Frederic loop... especially if the storm has just completed an eyewall replacement cycle, with a strengthening outer-eyewall. I just did an analysis between this loop and some recent radar images from Hugo's landfall from San Juan, Puerto Rico's radar and the similarities are striking.
vmax135 5 years ago
Yeah, it appears Frederic was going through an eyewall cycle. Looking at radar, I think the winds were really about 115 mph at landfall.
itsalleternal 3 years ago
Looks more like 125mph to me.
kkuratsuku 3 years ago