Hurricane Fran - Carolina Beach, NC - September 5, 1996

wow i just remembered fran and it just happened to be exactley12 years ago!

i'm with you on that!! i won't forget it either, put a tree on our house in sampson county!! but like you said, we all survived as well.

Whoa! Great footage!!

damn i live on wrightsville beach that hurricane did alot of damage

i was there and remember a bunch of wind and rain ,beach chairs where scattered all over the beach.

Dude represent Port City! i hope we get hit with another.

I went through Hurricane Isabel in 2004. It hit Virginia as a Category 2 hurricane, and boy it caused some major damage. During the eye, I saw a house with a tree through it.

I was 8, and remember this vividly. I thought it was crazy cool (I was young), and I live in Wilmington, it was really bad here haha.

haha where i live we usually make up 5-10 days of school every year from snow

i like meteoroligy, but apparently you've never lived on the coast and experienced a hurricane!

you were lucky...we were without power for about ten day. i enjoyed missing school at the time, but it sucked when we had to make it up on teacher workdays and at the end of the year.

I'll never forget Fran, she took most of our roof (columbus county) I remember the walls shaking. The roar from the wind is undescribable, not like an on and off gust, but a constant roar. It's a weird feeling to wake up and look out and see all the trees gone. We lost lost most of the trees in our yard, but we survived.

I went through this one and it was frightening. I lived in Pender County at the time. The house was actually shaking and making weird noises. When my dogs started staring at the ceiling and looking worried was when I really got nervous@!

I remember that storm when its bands hit here in Greensboro, NC. I was 6 and it knocked our power out in the middle of the night. It was out until about noon and school was cancelled for the day.

I was a Marine stationed at Lejeune during this hurricane...We had a great hurricane party!! but man the damage was intense... it didnt help that we got blasted by bertha 2 months to the day prior to fran hitting!!! The Forests, and woods still havent recovered!!

I like Hurricane !

i rode that storm 2

I remember this hurricane like it was yesterday. I live in the sandhills and it did so much damage here, I can only imagine what it did to our beautiful coast

omg i live like 10 minutes away from carolina beach but i was living in pa at that time

awesome video

Wild!

rode out storm in raleigh w/ a tree in our house at 1100 pm. water everywhere, very surreal. Like a bad acid trip, it just keeps on forever for hours, relentless, no where to run, no one to help. you are truly alone.

i rode that storm ,it was a bad mofo

What a classic!!! Those peak gusts during the eyewall, with the storm surge inundating the area are incredible!