"Maule Driver" wrote in message
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We expect up to 50 knot winds...

I was hear during Fran and "the other one". Fran ran dead center thru the
RDU triangle area. You never forget the roar of the train. It was real
bad
but I don't remember any a/c loses here at 8NC8 (was W65). The "other
one"
that ran thru here to the

That was "Floyd". Who could forget the pictures of pigs on the barn roofs?
Whole houses and coffins floating down the street. I was here for Fran too.
The roar was incredible, but the silence of the eye was downright eerie.

Here in NC, it's usually not the speed of the wind that causes problems,
it's the falling trees/branches. People were killed when trees landed on
their cars while they drove. Whole houses were destroyed when multiple trees
crashed through the roof. A rescue worker was killed yesterday when he drove
into a fallen tree. I was nearly taken out by a fallen tree that came
through my windshield during TS Josephine, missed my forehead by an inch.

So at the airport, as long as there are no trees nearby, I would be more
afraid of flying roof materials and flying debris. A piece of corrugated
steel zipping along at 60 mph could do real damage. Also, low-lying airports
get flooded out. My old airport (5W5) always got flooded out during storms,
so Fran and Floyd really did a number on the planes that were unfortunately
left there. I think even some of the hangared planes had water damage. The
best option is to get your plane the heck out of Dodge.

-Trent
PP-ASEL