HURRICANE WILMA HONOR ROLL, OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2005*

 

BERNARD ALICKI
BARBARA ARUANNO
THEODOR BECK
FRANK BELINA
JOSEPH BILARDELLO
BILL BRANSBURG
SHIRLEY BRANSBURG
TOM BOECK
CLYDE BREWER
MARTIN CASANOVA
JOSE CASTRO
CHARLES CHINTALA
GWEN CHINTALA
DOUG CLARK
DICK CREAL
JOHN DUERR
WARREN EISENBERG
KAREN ESKESEN
MAHMOUD ESSELDINE
RALPH FAVUZZI
VI FITZPATRICK
LILLIAN FISHER
JIM FLYNN
RICHARD GARVIN
GERRY GARVIN
RAY GEORGE
GIOVANNI GIANNATELLI
DOUG GORAB
JOSEPH GUASTELLA
COREY HANSEN
JIM HARRAKA
MIKE HEFFEREN
BURR HICKMAN
WILL HUTCHINSON
CHRIS JARVIS
MURRAY KASS
NELLY KIEFER
STANLEY KINZELBERG
ERIC KJELLMARK
LILLIAN LAMBERT
CAROLINE LUND
WILLIAM LEHRFELD
AL LEMOLE
ANGIE MASI
ANTOINETTE MURRAY
FRANK MAZZEO
DORA NESPOLE
JOE NESPOLE
BLANCA ORO
MIKE ORTENSIO
GINO PALERMO
PAUL PALOMBI
SAM PICCIRILLO
CONNIE PICCIRILLO
RON PLOTKIN
JIM RAINEY
SHERLEY ROSENBERG
MIMI SCHNEIDER
WALTER SILVERMAN
LEROY SPARKS
PAUL SPEZZANO
JOHN STRUGAR
BILL SUTHERLAND
CHRIS TOOMEY
HERB WASHBURN
JULES WEINSTOCK

* The CRTE Hurricane Wilma Honor Roll showing residents who, along with the 2005-2006 Board of Directors, volunteered to help keep CRTE functioning during and after Hurricane Wilma.

 

A classic earth-satellite view of Hurricane Wilma. Look closely and you will see the storm over the Gulf of Mexico about to make a sharp right-hand turn going west-to-east across the Florida peninsula. Wilma eventually devastated Broward and Palm Beach counties.

 

Hurricanes > Summary

Summary. Florida's official "hurricane season" runs from June 1 through November 30. The highest probability of a serious storm is between mid-August and late October, with the peak around mid-September. The average season produces about 10 tropical storms, of which six develop into hurricanes, rarely impacting Fort Lauderdale. In fact Fort Lauderdale has had only one major storm in decades - Hurricane Wilma.

Street damage from Hurricane Wilma and, several months later, things were back to normal.

Hurricane Wilma is fully documented in the associated Hurricane sub-choice entitled MyStory and the other choices named Photos 1 through 10.

Hurricane Wilma, October 24, 2005. After destroying Cancún in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, Hurricane Wilma arrived in Fort Lauderdale, as well as most of South Florida, on Monday, October 24, 2005. There was more than ample warning on TV and radio, best described as feeding frenzies of warnings. But nothing could have prepared us for what followed during that early Monday morning and afternoon of that incredible day.

Tracking Hurricane Wilma in 2005. The storm came up the Gulf of Mexico then cut right across Florida really doing a job on Fort Lauderdale.

CRTE lost some of its windows, its lobby interior was devastated, its roof blew off, its foliage was in large part destroyed, its electric power was lost, its water supply stopped, a great many cars were damaged and its cable TV went blank. The interiors of many apartments were wrecked during the storm. Some residents were injured.

A tree gets cut down from the winds of Hurricane Wilma.

The entire Coral Ridge complex, as well as everywhere else, was pitch black for 3 nights and a mandatory curfew ordered by the City of Fort Lauderdale was in effect from sundown to sunrise. Our residents became proficient at transporting water from the swimming pool to toilet tanks as the pool noticeably decreased in volume.

Hurricane Categories. Once a hurricane develops, the Saffir-Simpson Scale is used to classify a hurricane's intensity and damage potential. There are five possible categories. Category 1 storms are more common than category 5 storms. In a typical year, there may be many category 1 storms, but category 5 storms occur very infrequently.


Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale


Scale Number
Category

Central Pressure
mb

Wind Speeds
mi/hr

Storm Surge
feet

Observed
Damage
         
1 > 980
74-95
 4-5
some damage to trees, shrubbery, and unanchored mobile homes
         
2 965-979
96-110
 6-8
major damage to mobile homes; damage buildings' roofs, and blow trees down
         
3 945-964
111-130
 9-12
destroy mobile homes; blow down large trees; damage small buildings
         
4 920-944
131-155
13-18
completely destroy mobile homes; lower floors of structures near shore are susceptible to flooding
         
5 < 920
> 155
> 18
extensive damage to homes and industrial buildings; blow away small buildings; lower floors of structures within 1/3 mile (6 blocks) of shore and less than 15 ft (2 stories) above sea level are damaged

 

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