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Old 09-06-2008, 04:41 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA (Dunwoody)
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Yeah, Opal was a heckuva rain maker, we got soaked in north Alabama AND got tropical force winds as well.

I think the rain is worth a week without power, but then, I'm a gardener.
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Old 09-06-2008, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Santa Barbara 93108 / Atlanta 30306
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Well, Hurricane Opal in 1995 made it to Atlanta and brought heavy rain and very strong winds. We were without power for a week.
Matt is correct ... very strong winds. A very large oak in my backyard tumbled over, took out part of my deck and the fence.

I welcome the RAIN, however with our drought causing many large trees to root upward ... I'd think we would have quite a mess from toppled trees, power lines and then some?
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Old 09-07-2008, 01:01 AM
 
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Well, Hurricane Opal in 1995 made it to Atlanta and brought heavy rain and very strong winds. We were without power for a week.
Opal did cause a lot of damage from the fringe winds and rain, but technically I don't think the hurricane itself actually got here. Opal was just so powerful even the outskirts caused heavy damage. AJC just ran an article this week that said no hurricane has actually made landfall in Georgia for over 100 years...
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Old 09-07-2008, 05:58 AM
 
Location: Norman, OK
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Opal did cause a lot of damage from the fringe winds and rain, but technically I don't think the hurricane itself actually got here. Opal was just so powerful even the outskirts caused heavy damage. AJC just ran an article this week that said no hurricane has actually made landfall in Georgia for over 100 years...
A storm can make landfall and still remain a hurricane as it passes inland. Ask the people of Jackson, MS during Hurricane Katrina. Though the storm made landfall south of them, as the center passed over Jackson, MS, Katrina was still a category 1 hurricane.

That said, Opal was not hurricane strength as it passed through eastern Alabama. It wasn't the "outskirts" that hit Atlanta - it was the actual circulation as the storm center passed west of the city.
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Old 09-07-2008, 09:44 AM
 
Location: West Metro Atlanta
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Opal did cause a lot of damage from the fringe winds and rain, but technically I don't think the hurricane itself actually got here. Opal was just so powerful even the outskirts caused heavy damage. AJC just ran an article this week that said no hurricane has actually made landfall in Georgia for over 100 years...
Opal didnt even make landfall in GA, it made landfall in FL. But parts of GA definitely had hurricane force wind gusts.The Atlanta area had tropical storm force sustained winds and gusts to 70-75 mph, although I had a gust of 82 mph at my house near the Alabama border. If a hurricane were to hit the GA coast, more than likely Atlanta wouldnt get alot of wind and rain out of it since it probably curve north and move east of Atlanta and Atlanta would be on the west side of the storm which is the weaker side. Generally, storms that come out of the Gulf are the ones that bring Atlanta alot of rain and wind.
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Old 09-07-2008, 09:40 PM
 
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****, Ike is going to miss us also
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Old 09-07-2008, 10:59 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA (Dunwoody)
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It was definitely still a tropical storm when it passed over north east Alabama. We got the wind and rain, then a lull as the eye passed, then it started up again. I'd never experienced anything like that.
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