Hurricane Fran - Carolina Beach, NC - September 5, 1996

[TheWhacked0ne]

WoW!!!! I remember that one and every one before that (well i was born in 78') and every one after...*sigh* i miss home :'(

[mrpeepeeful]

Wow, this brings back memories. I was living in downtown Wilmington, NC at the time, having recently moved from Philadelphia. This was the 2nd hurricane in as many months. There were 4 of us, one being my Mother who had a house in Kure Beach, as well as 2 dogs, 1 cat, and an iguana, in a 1 bedroom apartment riding this thing out. It was pitch black, the wind gusts were frightening, the sound of trees coming down on cars and other structures ..this went on all night. It was something else.

[nicklong1981]

aww man this storm was a mother i was in the 10th grade. I remember us staying up all night while the wind was blowing no lights in the house it was scary!

[meredithkm09]

i remember this storm! I lived In Benson NC and it was absolutly horrible!!! we were out of power for over a week!! I was 12 years old at the time! haven;t see anything like it since!!

[bhstephe]

Very nice!

[AwakeForGood]

I remember this storm. It was on my 16th birthday.  I had to wait a week or so to get my drivers license b/c of all of the debris on the roads. I was in Rose Hill and it was pretty intense even there.

[F25Xanatos]

All I can say is thankfully Edward did not hit us after Bertha. Still, that was a very long night. I can still remember the wind howling and how truly dark it can be at night when there are no street lights - this went on for a week until we had power again.

[RepublicanNatio]

hellacious waves

[JimAlucard]

I live 60 miles away from the coast in Sampson County when this hit. Those howling 115 mile per hour winds for 3 hours were nerve racking.

[Beltzer0072]

I was in this hurricane. I lived about an hour from the beach so we got a good force of it

[6868818]

2 years and 2 days after my b-day, and I live there.

[UNCBraves01]

i don't know how but i somehow slept through this hurricane lol

[samthedarkwolf]

I was born in North Carolina on September 5 1996 durring this Hurricane!

[dltanner99]

The Dare Island Enigma is a cryptozoology novel about two boys who find something strange on an outer bank's beach see video book trailer

[Msjjangful]

thats my name! this happened on the month and year i was born......

[theoneandonly919]

i remember that Hotel it used to be a pool hall below it! as of 2010 Carolina beach has changed! that hotel is no longer there

[PositivelyBored]

We might see a Edouard/ Fran type redux this year!!! Earl = Edouard, Fran = Fiona. Watch it..

[ilovetogofast88]

Hurricane Fran is heading for Cape Fear...how appropriate

[xXlivelaughlovepeace]

i was born into fran at the time me my brothers and my parents lived at the beach and we avvacuated just in time to get out of the thi shorrible hurricane we went to wenseten salom seeing this is the most horrible thing that happend:(.........seeing this is scary..

[mikerussell]

I was in Goldsboro when happened!

The caskets were here in Goldsboro floating in the streets.

[3sheetz2thawind]

@mikerussell, oh my god! yep! Im from onslow county and i remember seeing that on the news! Im from Jacksonville, but when i saw that on the news, i was like WOW!

[mmangum4444]

@mikerussell

now that's unsettling, to say the least!

[Richard8262]

1:34 My grandmother owned that hotel at the time. It's the Hotel Astor. I grew up there. Pretty neat to see it on here.

[nutyhermit]

No wonder Geenville was under water! I was in grad school and the place was a mess!

[malcolmsaidso]

I remember this day well... It didn't the Triangle (where I lived at the time) until later, but our neighborhood was out of power six days!

[nikki33100]

i remember this very well i was stayin in a three br mobile home rocking back and forth damn scary as heck

[LowTegra]

great video! love the progressive storm surge throughout the shoot, looks like the lines and trees held up well in that part of Carolina beach

[LUIS70213]

scary :( i am glad i live in las vegas nevada

[wilkomono]

I was in Jacksonville, NC when Fran hit. I was 14yr old and I can honestly tell you that it was something else for me. It was my first hurricane in the US and I can tell you that the houses here are made out of paper and not like back home out of concrete. but we survived, we had minor damage to the roof and the siding of the house came off but thank God we were ok. Some houses down from mine where demolish from top to bottom.

[whatheyyo]

Does anybody whose is the meterologist speaking over the clip?

[TomBoyGirl86]

I remember very well this Storm. Almost lost my families house and got flooded in by Fran. One of the worst hurricanes I went thro.

[theelboy50]

I was born on september 10th in Raleigh North Carolina just a couple days after fran it was bad there

[Title27GT]

man you are young!

[METALLICAisheavy]

my mom told me that when i was young i was in it dont remember anything but she said my stroller was up in the air and we were on the pier

[arn0ldaar0n]

awesome!

[buckshot1001nc]

I am in Durham and it was pretty bad here, 70 - 80mph gusts and 13 inches of rain in a about 6 hours, we didnt have power for a week or two. Man i will miss center pier at Carolina Beach good food and fishing there

[AaronW1025]

What a trip this was, on my 12th birthday AND my our house "the love shack" on s. lake park got blown into the ocean

[mnaz21]

Nasty storm...but I really think the most terrifying damage and impacts come once winds get to about 140 mph in a hurricane. 115 mph is bad, but 140+ mph is extreme. Hugo, Andrew, Charley...all had those ferocious winds

[liquidstl]

Did you haooen to have a camera set up in the house you were filming at ( house at 42 seconds or so) .... on the Discovery film " HUrricane!" They used your footage of the waves crashing up the steps of that house, but they also showed footage from inside the house as water crashed through it ( or was that a reinactment?)

[cyclonejimcom]

Chris.

I did have the camera setup at a walkway in front of a motel but Discovery probably did a re-inactment of any scenes of waves crashing into a house inside.

[liquidstl]

Hey Jim, do you happen to have any footage from the eye of Fran?

[cyclonejimcom]

Hey Chris.

The eye came in just after dark so the video wasn't worth seeing.

[scottyusmc38]

I was stationed at Camp Lejuene when Burtha and Fran hit. That was some amazing weather. I think we were out of fresh water and electricity for weeks.

[phoenixmaze]

i was born 1999 but i knew that a hurrican hit nc! but it got the date wrong in my science book! it put 2003!

[jdo08]

I live in Johnston county and it tore the roof off of our house! But thankfully no one was hurt

[totichan65]

Hey nice video! Do you know what catagory at this time was by fran?

[cyclonejimcom]

Hurricane Fran was a low end category-3 at the time of landfall.

[xhemexx]

I'll tell you the place that got hit with the biggest waves ....most people don't know this, but it was infact on the southern Shores of Newfoundland Canada that waves up to 60 feet came on shore from this same Hurricane.

[GamerShaw]

I was in central North Carolina when this happened (Asheboro) and we got hit pretty hard by Fran!

[avril91]

omg this happened on the day i was born..

[personerty]

@avril91 omg i was born this day to!

[MrAben1995]

@avril91

OMG I WAS BORN THAT DAY TO! 5 SEPTEMBER 1996 8:00PM LOL!! if you dont believe me check my profile. LOL

[lillphomie91]

wow i just remembered fran and it just happened to be exactley12 years ago!

[CanCry]

Whoa! Great footage!!

[parksitous]

damn i live on wrightsville beach that hurricane did alot of damage

[shuffleman321]

i was there and remember a bunch of wind and rain ,beach chairs where scattered all over the beach.

[jenTben]

Dude represent Port City! i hope we get hit with another.

[geogray1]

I went through Hurricane Isabel in 2004. It hit Virginia as a Category 2 hurricane, and boy it caused some major damage. During the eye, I saw a house with a tree through it.

[unarmedcivilian]

I was 8, and remember this vividly. I thought it was crazy cool (I was young), and I live in Wilmington, it was really bad here haha.

[uncwboy]

I'll never forget Fran, she took most of our roof (columbus county) I remember the walls shaking. The roar from the wind is undescribable, not like an on and off gust, but a constant roar. It's a weird feeling to wake up and look out and see all the trees gone. We lost lost most of the trees in our yard, but we survived.

[brouse21]

i'm with you on that!!  i won't forget it either, put a tree on our house in sampson county!! but like you said, we all survived as well.

[rumycuzn]

I went through this one and it was frightening. I lived in Pender County at the time. The house was actually shaking and making weird noises. When my dogs started staring at the ceiling and looking worried was when I really got nervous@!

[Roadgeek]

I remember that storm when its bands hit here in Greensboro, NC. I was 6 and it knocked our power out in the middle of the night. It was out until about noon and school was cancelled for the day.

[uncwboy]

you were lucky...we were without power for about ten day. i enjoyed missing school at the time, but it sucked when we had to make it up on teacher workdays and at the end of the year.

[rsqb11]

haha where i live we usually make up 5-10 days of school every year from snow

[jasoncales]

I was a Marine stationed at Lejeune during this hurricane...We had a great hurricane party!! but man the damage was intense... it didnt help that we got blasted by bertha 2 months to the day prior to fran hitting!!! The Forests, and woods still havent recovered!!

[wong5353]

I like Hurricane !

[uncwboy]

i like meteoroligy, but apparently you've never lived on the coast and experienced a hurricane!

[eggbert4872]

Very good Tonto

[compuhermit]

i rode that storm 2

[CaniacTiLLIDie]

I remember this hurricane like it was yesterday. I live in the sandhills and it did so much damage here, I can only imagine what it did to our beautiful coast

[animalqueen11]

omg i live like 10 minutes away from carolina beach but i was living in pa at that time

[stormchaser3751]

Wild!

[chipshot1958]

rode out storm in raleigh w/ a tree in our house at 1100 pm. water everywhere, very surreal. Like a bad acid trip, it just keeps on forever for hours, relentless, no where to run, no one to help. you are truly alone.

[fost6586]

i rode that storm ,it was a bad mofo

[vmax135]

What a classic!!! Those peak gusts during the eyewall, with the storm surge inundating the area are incredible!