thank you!

Yea everyone in 2023 loves to clickbait, this was a great vid!

Cant agree more

By the profile name you can immediately tell this isn’t some compilation clickbait

When it comes to Jim Edds there is no clickbait you get the real deal and professionalism a true Storm Chaser.

Thank you BP. This was a very rare cat 5 blue sky eye only seen from a hurricane hunter aircraft previously. Thanks for watching.

Well done!!!

here before this blows up

i stood outside during hurricane irma in florida a few years back with my uncle and we saw our palm trees bending from the wind, it was sick

Its actually the human ego to think we're invulnerable to everything.

We do it for the experience.

Its fun

Storms*

100% agreed though.

It’s also quite simple too though, it’s literally being totally surrounded by violent storms and there’s no way to escape them. They’re coming from one direction or another, no matter what.

Beauty in destruction

Tree evolution....treevolution! I'm in Michigan so I definitely feel your pain. Not only are trees and limbs coming down, the power will be out for 3-5 days as well.

Palm trees are sponge like inside. That gives them an amazing ability to flex in the wind. Hard to cut with a chainsaw even.

Harder objects tend to snap if they are bent, but softer objects are more elastic and can bend alot without snapping

​@@JimEddsthanks for this

Hope John was able to salvage his boat

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WOW very interesting fact. I guess I never thought about it.

How's John's boat?

Maria was brutal in Puerto Rico. So much damage there.

I lived maria too, but I kind of liked how puerto rico came together and got out of that problem

Yeah…I want to be there the rest of my life !

Thanks and thanks for watching the video

In my opinion hurricane Isabel is a little more photogenic. The pinwheel eye and annular shape just makes it look so cool

it's had a bit of a run the past week and I hope you're right. Thanks for watching.

The great thumbnail and title are getting clicks!

You're so kind. Thanks for watching.

It's literally such category 5 strength that gives the most perfect eye structure. Beautiful en terrible at the same time. The stronger a storm is, the more perfect it's shape is going to be.

that is one amazing photo of the eye wall you captured!

This video was amazing. You did a phenomenal job.

I can see myself in the future coming back to this video for years, it is amazing.

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The production quality on this video is amazing

thank you, took a while to edit but it's nice to see the positive feedback. Dorian was a very powerful storm probably the strongest wind I've been in.

Thanks Zeria and thanks for watching.

There are comments like yours that seem to be attempting to dissuade the reader from believing that these storms aren't common. Maybe not in any one location but around the globe Cat 5's are now seen yearly. And a fair proportion do strike land.

@@bluegold21 not dissuade but try to count records of cat5 from the past 100 years. You can count those on your fingers. Also the fact that cat5 do come but we cannot observe it directly unless it does fall in land. Got what I’m trying to point out? Sure we can see them from satellites but to go under directly its path for data gathering is really rare.

Thanks for watching Anthony & glad you stayed with it :)

This had me on my toes the whole time this hurricane was over the Bahamas. Can’t even imagine or feel what that must have been like. Still really shocks me how long it stalled

then you know the second half is coming.

Thank you. It's so hard to get a storm that strong and in the eye near the center point too. Probably won't ever see that again unless in a plane. Thanks for watching!

Incredible shot

Indeed, I dreamed of a shot like that. Next up is the sub 900 mb eye recording on a calibrated barometer

Different types of wind, also the wind speed varies greatly across the huricane. I doubt right there experienced 180 mph

I do mitigate the risks based on my experience. What looks scary to some is not for me but I do have my limits. The storm was not that bad yet and water over the dock was doable. Check out my Hurricane Irene footage from Hopetown from 2022. Thanks for watching.

@@JimEdds How did you not get swept away when it was at almost waist high?? I'd imagine the current would feel like a gushing river

it's hard to believe when you see it, almost mythical. Many eyes are filled in with clouds so even though the pressure has bottomed out you can't see blue sky.

no i wasnt

​@@dorianward6685yes you were 🤬

Maybe. Ya only notice the survivors. Those that were killed either got swept away, or buried under the debris.

thank you and thanks for watching!

I've been in 2, nothing like that but it's definitely an awesome experience.

hah

The blue sky eye storms are brutal afterward. So much destruction but like the bare trees they turn green again with time.

that's awesome. I love choppers.

and the green does come back, nature is very resilient

This is the randomest comment I've seen in quite a while.

Oddly specific

you sound like you speak from experience...

thank you and thanks for watching

we call that storm chasing

@@JimEdds god bless

very cool Soul Man, thanks for subscribing!

I lug around a big tripod for the stable shots then try and hold to gopro against something if possible but more and more cams come with some sort of image stabalizing feature. So one of these days I won't have to carry and tripod with me everywhere-it's heavy. Thanks for watching !

@@JimEdds Bravo Jim! incredible footage. Also, the fact that, you were so calm through it all is just mind blowing. Stay safe, thank you for sharing and I look forward to more content. 🙏

Thanks, working on another good one Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys.

Weather is fascinating

thank you and thanks for watching the video

Snapping pine trees like matchsticks indicate it was probably stronger than reported.

Thank you.

thanks, and thanks for watching

Thanks for watching.

That footage was absolutely the real deal. That was 100% the eye and eye wall of Dorian. No misleading or editing trickery involved.

​@@YogSoththis wss seen all over that island and this has happened pretty often, it's called the stadium effect

Thank you Storrhouse and thanks for watching. Love the Bahamas, it's absolutely beautiful.

animals and birds are smarter than we think. As long as the area doesn't go underwater they have a chance. Usually birds will land and get behind something and point into the wind. I've seen pelicans and ospreys land on a bridge and get behind the concrete side rail to ride out a storm. Sometimes birds will fly in the eye for days. Smaller birds will head for dry areas like parking garages - I've seen that in Ike 2008 in Galveston.

indeed, very few people have seen a Cat 5 Blue Sky Eye. Even among my kind (storm chasers) you rarely see it. You have to be in a powerful cyclone in the deep tropics. If the eye is 20 miles across you have to be safe in that small 20 miles and that's not doable for most people.

US was lucky this time. Thanks for watching.

Same here was sitting here hoping for a miss, but prayed for the bahamian people

I know what I can get away with but there's always a chance something will come lose as the wind picks up. In the event I was blown off the dock I would have swam to a ladder downwind and gotten out. Some things you can mitigate-some.

@@JimEdds I cant remember if it was Katrina or Rita or maybe a third one, but one of the NOAA vessel engineers I knew who lived along Mobile Bay was swept, house and all, into the bay, he clung on and the house came apart, he was blown all the way across and by the time he was at the shore, the storm had ripped every last shred of clothing off him and taken every last piece of his house and blown/sunk it away from him. He somehow survived that.

Not gonna lie, the areas you guys were in look more infinitely dangerous than Barbados Holetown when it comes to storm surge. We had to drive through water that were basically near up the car. It was a miracle we got out okay, but we had high ground to go to. Watching where you were at, the land is so flat, and so small and its a miracle that area didn't get over-run by storm surge, but i guess there was no full moon or anything that time, so small blessings. Either way, im really happy you're here in the world because i get to see the eye of a storm. When i was a teenager i didn't remember it too well when george hit, but seeing it here is a good reminder. EDIT: also want to point out that YOU HAVE NO SAFETY ROPE OR ANYTHING. god damn.

Thank you, glad you liked it.

I was 16 in fall river mass when the eye of bob came over, then the wind picked up quickly from the opposite direction... The jet stream usually picks them up and there pretty much speeding by the time they get up here in the northeast... Haven't had a direct hit since Bob in 91.. it's always something I wanted to experience with my young son.... I'm fascinated by these things...

Reed has a photo of this eye at home :) I sent out many eye pics poster size to some chasers.

@@JimEdds Glad everyone made it, hoping for no repeats. Recently moved to FL myself, near Tallahassee. Bet Reed loved that pic.

My thoughts also. Basically like a shotgun blast of rain.

thank you and thanks for watching. It was good to get out we were so happy.

sometimes you can or just before going into the air or when a strong burtst of wind hits you . . . your ears pop.

Thank You. Dorian was a once in a lifetime Hurricane.

Not to downplay Jim's footage, but search Hurricane Michael eye footage. That ties with Jims imo. Plus Michael was the last major hurricane I had to deal with (right on the Florida/Georgia border in Alabama). It was as scary as Opal. So I watched all the footage I could from other places hit. 😅

you made me laugh . . . good to see some humor on the teletype every now and then. Thanks for watching.