Extreme Wind and Flying Debris in Hurricane Florence Eyewall

Tornado Trackers - Thank you for this footage. I am a resident of Wilmington (Leland) and currently deployed in Iraq where I was completely helpless to my family during this storm. Footage like this and others help me grasp the reality and severity of this devastating storm. Thank you for putting yourself out there to capture these moments along with your other videos. Job well done and glad you are safe. Thank you.

Beautiful. No annoying news commentary, just pictures of the storm.

I live in the outskirts of Wilmington. Very frightening night with winds over 100MPH. Lots of damage. Probably 80% of all homes had roof damage which allowed water to get in and cause more damage.

After riding out Cat4 Harvey last year, here with my dogs, in Aransas Pass, and experiencing 130+ winds, my heart goes out to y'all. The hurricane and flooding is bad enough, but the period after(restoring utilities, finding food and drink, and all the rest)is the WORST part. Dealing with FEMA is another part of the pain. People who have never been through a hurricane and the aftermath, should be GLAD that they DON'T know what they're missing. Great footage here!

Bro why can't that tree fall down but my big oak tree falls in 20mph speed winds

Yep that's what it's like. I have been through a few in my 50 yrs here in Wilmington. This one bothered us the most because it stuck around. We also are positive the gusts got higher than they reported. Every house in our neighborhood either had a tree on their roof or had parts of the roof blown off. The aftermath of this one was worse than other. Being cut off by flooding from all sides was a learning experience for sure. But we got out better than Florida's coast with Micheal. We are having to face the fact that these storms are getting stronger

2:02 even the stop sign have no match to a hurricane

God only knows what would it would've been like if it had hit as a Cat 4. Blimey those are some ferocious winds. Great footage, well done!

Watching from ireland 🇮🇪 incredible footage

I just came across this video and I'm glad I did. I live less than 3 miles away from where all the footage was shot and my office is right down the street. It's a great visualization of what I felt like must've been going on outside. I rode the storm out in a house with a few friends and remember listening to the windows flexing and praying that they wouldn't shatter or that one of the hundreds of massive trees that were coming down didn't come through our roof. I've lived in Wilmington for 20 years and been through a few Cat 1 and Cat 2 storms and I can tell you this one definitely didn't feel like a Cat 1. The winds were bad enough but even worse was that the storm stayed on top of us for almost 3 full days and dumped close to 3 feet of rain. Much like what happened with Hurricane Floyd in 1999, we ended up being cut off from the rest of the world for almost 2 weeks because all of the roads in and out of town were under water. It was almost impossible to get food, ice, gas, just about anything and people were definitely getting desperate. I hope we never have another one like that. Thanks for the vid!

Glad I evacuated, thanks for the footage, now I know what went down.

I love how even with that crazy wind they still had streetlights. Here in western Washington however, 20 minutes of 50 mph wind will leave us without power for days. Gotta love the infinite wisdom of running power lines right through the firs and pines.

Awesome footage, nice!!

My neighbor would probably be mowing his lawn I kid you not we had a tornado and he was out still mowing his lawn as the winds blew harder and harder

beautiful shots

My friend almost rode this out,and was near Wrightsville,but ended up driving back to Concord the night before. However my husband and his pal had ridden then out together during college.

Ur extreme winds are epic

Cool footage thank you

Incredible footage thanks for sharing it. Glad Florence weakened so much before landfall. Terrifying had it hit as a 3 or 4.

Great footage. They should show this on the news and show what a "cat 1" looks like.