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

Hurricane Fran moves over Carolina Beach, North Carolina on the afternoon and evening of September 5, 1996. The storm made landfall directly over this area with maximum sustained winds of 115mph and a minimum central pressure of 954mb (28.17in).

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• Hurricane
• Fran
• Severe
• Weather
• Storms
• Tropical
• Cyclone
• Typhoon
• North
• Carolina
• Hurricanes
• 1996
• Extreme
• Wind
• Storm
• Surge

[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.

[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.

[avril91]

omg this happened on the day i was born..

[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 :'(

[MrAben1995]

@avril91

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

[personerty]

@avril91 omg i was born this day to!

[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