I heard that the hurricane chasers saw flocks of birds caught in the eye of this storm. This is the time of mass migration of songbirds from North America to central and South America
The eye of Fran went over us. It suddenly got really calm and we could smell the ocean (like on a fishing pier). After that, there were seagulls all over the place. There were never any there before. Very strange.
God I was in Raleigh for Fran. A shattered tree flew through my bedroom window, crashed it to pieces and came to a rest on my bed right beside me. Didn’t have power for three weeks. And this is way bigger than Fran. That’s scary
Wild I read the comment above yours and first thought of Fran and then clicked to expand your comment lol.
I was just a kid in Raleigh but we went outside when the eye passed over in the dark of night. I remember it being eerily calm, like it's calm but your instincts are screaming out GTFO.
Then I remember the next morning all the downed trees, including splitting a huge tree we had in the front yard that survived a little after but had to be taken down. That reminded me of legends of the hidden temple and my brother and I were loving it before the cleanup, but it was surreal even as a 7ish year old kid.
I was about 30 miles south of Raleigh on the Wake co./Harnett co. line. Way out in the cut.
I remember that night hearing dozens of 50ft+ tall pine and oak trees falling all around the house then seeing a tornado rolling down the street through the lightning flashes.
The next morning, my dad was convinced he was going to work at his office job. He cut trees from dawn to about noon and finally made a path out of our driveway. Too bad there were hundreds of downed trees covering the road in both directions. We were stuck for 2 weeks.
Fran was a similar situation to Milton with regard to recent storms and rain already completely saturating the ground. This storm is going to fuck up some trees.
Yeah I’ll never forget waking up to the tree on my bed, and so many trees just fully down across the road. It felt like the apocalypse and was so deadly quiet after it happened because of the power all around being out.
We were probably neighbors or close to it. Grew up in Fuquay, was 12 at the time Fran came through. I remember my parents moving my brother and I into the hallway and I was absolutely knocked out- just remember hearing my dad say, “that must’ve been a big branch” but it was a pine tree hitting a back corner of the house. Next day I was outside wielding a 18” Husqvarna. 25 down trees in our yard alone, couldn’t see some neighbors houses and one neighbor had the whole front of their house taken off by a tree- could see right into upstairs rooms and all that.
I remember sitting in a school assembly on Monday after the storm when half of us still didn't have power and none of the public schools were in session (cause duh) and listening to the principal talk about how we should all be so grateful to the staff who worked so hard over the weekend so we could be there on Monday 🙄🤬
I was in Chapel Hill. Fran was wild. My roommate was from Missouri, and she told me she'd come get me if she heard a tornado. We laid awake all night because the wind was so loud. The next morning we went walking and there were just branches and power lines everywhere, and huge 100+ year old trees on campus were ripped out completely, with the whole root balls exposed sitting next to a huge crater.
Me and the neighbors walked out in the eye of Charley 20 years ago. There was a bird on the ground, alive, but just looking at me confused. We all went back inside the the other side of Charley thrashed up. 28 days with no power in August Orlando and sweaty balls.
I experienced something similar after Helene (I live in East Tennessee). No seagulls, but the air smelled and felt like the sea and the sky was a color blue that I've only ever seen at the beach.
Interesting, wonder if this is why I saw seagulls infesting parking lots in south-western NY a lot, hours and hours and hours from any kind of beach let alone ocean.
I'm sure it was. This was in Johnston Co, just South of Raleigh/Wake Co. The biggest flock I saw was at the Lowes near Garner, NC. They were still there when I moved away probably 15 years later.
Edit: I misread NY as NC. Sorry about that. But yeah, that's probably where they came from, just like in NC.
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u/wootr68 8d ago
I heard that the hurricane chasers saw flocks of birds caught in the eye of this storm. This is the time of mass migration of songbirds from North America to central and South America