Crazy Ivan − 16 September, 2004
Remember "The Hunt for Red October"? The film that popularized the term "Crazy Ivan", for a sudden change in direction?
Well, it happened in real life.
Hurricane Ivan hit on this date. It missed Gainesville. Still socked Florida, though.
After it passed, I thought, well, it's over. It crossed the U.S. to the Atlantic and I was sure it was over.
Then, the next day, one of my kids said "Hey, did you hear that Ivan has made a loop and is coming back?"
We had been studying hurricanes, actually -- I'd discarded my earlier lesson plans and went on a brief jog into weather, since we were all, effectively, living in a giant science lab at the time. I'd mentioned the off chance that a hurricane could curve just far enough to bear back down and come by for a second swipe at Florida. It'd never happened, I said, but that didn't mean it couldn't.
Well, it did.
Ivan did a loop-de-loop and came back and smacked into Miami on September 20, as a low pressure system. Even weeks later, it was still a storm system, dumping rain on Texas and causing floods.
Ah, but the storm season was not over.
Well, it happened in real life.
Hurricane Ivan hit on this date. It missed Gainesville. Still socked Florida, though.
After it passed, I thought, well, it's over. It crossed the U.S. to the Atlantic and I was sure it was over.
Then, the next day, one of my kids said "Hey, did you hear that Ivan has made a loop and is coming back?"
We had been studying hurricanes, actually -- I'd discarded my earlier lesson plans and went on a brief jog into weather, since we were all, effectively, living in a giant science lab at the time. I'd mentioned the off chance that a hurricane could curve just far enough to bear back down and come by for a second swipe at Florida. It'd never happened, I said, but that didn't mean it couldn't.
Well, it did.
Ivan did a loop-de-loop and came back and smacked into Miami on September 20, as a low pressure system. Even weeks later, it was still a storm system, dumping rain on Texas and causing floods.
Ah, but the storm season was not over.
