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lighter:
Ok...a little info on the cement structure with steel doors where my friend's sons sheltered on Virgin Gorda.

The doors "began crumpling in and out.". Son said he tried to hold on to the door handles and the pressure took  his breath away.  He couldn't breath. 

They had sustained 185 mph winds....son said it was a level of physics he didn't understand, and his heart felt like "a fist shoved to his feet.". He thought the pressure was going to tear him apart. 

The doors eventually gave way, and I haven't heard where everyone was when that happened.  Everyone survived, that's the important detail.

We lost power for a while and I had to drive under three diwned trees held up by power lines to get girls to school.  Debris everywhere of course, but not much damage of property here.

My brother had a tree crumple part of his house and deck in GA.
 
Lighter

Hopalong:
Aack! Your brother and friend's son were so lucky. 185 mph! Holy s**t.

I'm glad that kind of direct damage didn't hit you, Lighter.

Whew.

Hops

lighter:
They said we had winds about 35mph.  I can't imagine what sustained 100 or 185mph winds would have felt like, and I don't want to.  Most of the downed trees over roads were leaning over the roads to begin with.

My brother was sleeping at the other end of his house when the tree hit, thank God.  The entire corner of the house is open to the sky.

The Virgin Gorda group must have been behind interior room doors that held.  One son is unable to talk about it.  He's shell shocked.  The son who stayed behind to help is the one reporting details, which are terrifying. 

Lighter

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