Lets have a sit at the Bay St. pocket park

[blfair]

Nevermind, looks like someone beat us to it...

It's nice they maintain the trees in the park, but if it shuts it down until they clean up... ?

[reednavy]

We can't help it if Momma Nature got all pissy raged and took out a good numebr of trees. As a meteorologist at NAS JAX, I can tell you it was unusual to have winds that srong sustained, for such a long period of time. Usually, at most, you'd see that for an hour or two after a sharp front pushes thru, however, this was associated with a sharp front, tied into a intene and rapidly deepening area of low pressure that dumped feet of snow from TN to PA, and 2-6 inches of rain here, with tornadoes. For those that were here in March of 1993, this storm was a light breeze compared to that for sure.

[Jason]

Wasn't the March '93 storm a nor'easter?

[blfair]

It looks more like a regular trim-job to me... not a downed tree. I didn't jump into the middle of the pile and go all CSI on it though.

That was some wind though -- I've seen damage around town -- signs pushed over or broken, panels ripped off of highrises...

[reednavy]

Wasn't the March '93 storm a nor'easter?

Sure was, but it started in the Gulf (GOMEX) and exploded rapidly. It gave hurricane like conditions to much of the Panhandle east of Panama City and NE FL, with a nasty storm surge and gusts well over 90mph on the Gulf side, nasty storms for Ctrl and So. FL. Thats the one the dumped 17in of snow at my house near Nashville, 56in in the Smoky Mtns and gave ATL a blizzard, and continued all up to Maine.

[billy]

I was on Sanibel and Captiva then.
Massive Atlantic-sized waves, erosion of roadway at Tween Waters area, power outages.

Friend back in Atlanta said it was most bizarre weather ever.
Snow blowing sideways and lightning at same time.

Other friends were camping on Cape San Blais.....and terrified.

[Jason]

I remember it well.  I was living in Daytona Beach at the time.  A couple biddies and me went trucking to the beach to catch some tidal waves but decided against it when we got there.  Wasn't power down for much of the southeast?

[reednavy]

Pretty much, it was an almost total power loss east of the Appalachian Mtns. Many locations reported Thundersnow, which Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, and many others did. I remember that storm so well, damn the snow and the wind causing 4 foot deep drifts! This latest one actually had only about 1/5 the energy the Superstorm did, thats what is scary.

[Jason]

Must be why it was appropriately dubbed "The Storm of the Century".

[fsujax]

I remember that one.  I was woken up by the winds and pine tree crashing through my window! I was covered in glass as I was trying to escape my room. Then late that afternoon we had snow flurries here in good ole Jax.  I also remember having no power for at least two days.

[thelakelander]

I remember that one.  There were snow flurries as far south as Sarasota.

[Driven1]

we all sound so old reminiscing like this. 

[Steve]

I was just going to say - did you guys walk up hill both ways to school.