Hurricane Katrina Eyewall Part 3

This is one of my favourite videos from Katrina. I shot it as I stood braced against the wind in the bottom level of the Hancock Bank parking garage in Gulfport.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• hurricane
• katrina
• storm
• wind
• gulfport
• Mississippi
• 2005
• chaser
• stormchaser
• extreme
• surge

[Kittylover9393]

How'd you get in that spot. O_O Or..how'd you get out of there??

[stormhunter27]

Drove right into Gulfport (we had special permissions) and then drove right out again. Actually, the drive out wasn't easy - we had to dodge huge piles of debris, drive the wrong way on the highway etc.

[ARC1313]

Is that SEA WATER???????

[stormhunter27]

Yup, that's seawater about 1/2 mile inland. At that point it was about 3 feet deep. Came in real fast and ended up about 5 feet deep at the deepest. Winds right there were about 110 - 150 mph.

[wishpackers]

@stormhunter27 And that's only a cat 3??

[stormhunter27]

@wishpackers

Very high end Cat3. It was about 5 mphs below Cat 4. I still consider it Cat 4 because that's what it felt like. Damn...

[pksmb1120]

man i'd have to bleach my pants for weeks on end after something like that! i'm here in southwest arkansas right now and we are having some of the remnants of Ike. It's windy outside like 40-45 and it's creeping me out enough as it is. coudn't imagine going through this. total respect for you documenting nature's fury man!

[giglebrat01]

Your really brave for doing such a thing....

that looks really fierce, lol

[IkORn90]

how the fuck this trees can by still standing?!

[GoddyofWar]

Katrina was a punishment through coincidence. Bush had sent the U.S broke by invading Iraq illegally, and by the time Katrina had made landfall, the U.S had not one dollar it could spare to help the city.

This whole thing had proven that even the most powerful man on Earth can act like an entire city never existed when you're too dumb to know what to do.

[PublicLibraryx]

not in my life have i ever seen something like that! Amazing and fucking scary

[xxxTaylorxx3]

JESUS. That's soo fucking bad.

[Danielleo328]

omg i feel so bad for people who were there i would of been freaking out

[severrnijKGU]

@ElgrinGoLoco100 you'd watch the storm coming on the news for about a week. and then there's the final week as it hits the jamaica -cuba area and heads straight for you. then for twelve hours the weather gets progressively worse unitl its like this. and it stays like this for 8 to 10, maybe 12 hours. in 89 my family had a neighbor that chose to ride hugo out near charleston, their family soon moved back up north, they were never the same.

[severrnijKGU]

tree : 'i'm just goin along for the ride'

[SwathedHawk812]

u should have tried screaming, to see if u could here yourself in all that wind. xD >:)

[traemaxwell]

@SonOfYoungwood And when it was all over there wasn't much of the town left for its residents!

I live in Spanish Fort, Alabama, right across the bay from Mobile and we had wind here at about 80mph-90mph.

and the Mobile Bay Causeway was under 25 feet of water! Its simply mindboggling how large the impact of the storm was! Kudos on the footage and keep up the good work

[ElgrinGoLoco100]

Hi I live in Italy, there are no events like this .... but how long on average a hurricane?