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This is my Hurricane Hugo chase video.
The footage was taken during Hugo's landfall on the northeast tip of
Puerto Rico at Luquillo.
In my 25 years of hurricane chasing, this remains, overall, the best
footage I have ever been fortunate enough to capture. Though I have been
in stronger hurricanes, given that Hugo was a borderline Category Four
and the strongest portion of the eyewall passed directly over my
location (during daylight hours), I had the rare opportunity to document
the full force of an intense hurricane at a direct coastal location.
Though significant damage begins about
eight minutes into the video, the peak winds occur from 10:00 - 21:00
minutes in, and are sustained near 135mph with gusts to 160-170mph. An
anemometer in the harbor of the island of Culebra (just offshore Eastern
Puerto Rico) reported a peak gust of 170mph at the time the instrument
failed, as the same portion of the eyewall passed over that location a
couple of hours prior to reaching Luquillo.
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