Sometimes I can only imagine what it was like in these islands 200 years ago in these storms.
With limited comms, aid, etc 😱
@BLuOXide @Beanc I would (big) guess that a coastal community would be able to make *some* predictions based on previous experience and even folklore but you'd maybe be talking about a much shorter lead time. It must have been incredibly frightening. The communities survived though, so they got some things right.
@stueytheround perhaps, but they defo had cat 4’s back then.
this is not 200 years ago, but it is older and does hint what happens to the human beings that are in the elements, from reddit
and the link to the excerpt
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_by_Alexander_Hamilton_on_the_hurricane_of_August_1772
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oh, apparently that was written in 1772 so yes that was 300 years ago or something
@Armchaircouch Well, 252 but what's 48 years between friends 🤣 @Beanc
See? i knew someone here could pull that together 😂♥️ ty @stueytheround @Beanc
@Armchaircouch The suffering is still suffering and of course without the benefit of modern medicines, the impact of waterborne diseases would be increased too. Awful. @Beanc
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I'm going to guess the Native Americans had too much sense to build permanent dwellings on Cedar Key, though.
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Must have been scary AF.
Not knowing in advance , with no time to prepare and such
also... NOAA records since before 1800 ... really dunno how they recorded these back in the days.
https://www.weather.gov/key/1800sHurricanes