Hurricane Dennis: 1999

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Hurricane Dennis was the highlight of my young career in late August of 1999. I had started HurricaneTrack.com earlier in the year and as luck would have it, a CNN producer from Chicago, working with Jeff Flock, read my commentary about my pending mission to intercept Dennis- and the rest was history. I worked the mission along side Jeff Flock, who had been in many hurricanes for live coverage on CNN. My first HIRT partner, Jamie Arnold, was not available to join me and so I relied on him for up to the minute info via cell phone (we did not have the luxury of Sprint wireless Internet in 1999). I set up in Carolina Beach, NC for round one of Dennis- which was not too bad. I was able to relay information to the New Hanover County EOC and they, in turn, sent it to the NHC. I did several live appearances with veteran Jeff Flock- often times showing the actual wind speed from atop the little green Isuzu Rodeo (those were the days). The hurricane passed just offshore of Cape Fear and sat off of the Outer Banks for nearly a week. On September 4, my college astronomy professor, Dr. Brian Davis, and I went out in to the far reaches of Carteret County- along Hwy 12- to observe and document the final landfall of Dennis. It was amazing to see the storm surge coming in from the Pamlico Sound. We were surrounded by water on all sides but had a chance to measure wind speeds within a very flat and marshy area. We had no way of knowing that this hurricane/tropical storm would pave the way for a monumental flood event 11 days later: Floyd.

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[wannabefamous21]

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[onlymassiss]

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[w7mag]

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