Brandon Lashbrook
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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I grew up in Safety Harbor, Florida.
Loved it there.
Yeah, for sure.
It was quite the honor to get the call with 12, 16 hours notice to get from Louisiana to Biloxi, Mississippi to fly with the Air Force Reserve and to Hurricane Milton.
So definitely a big storm for the West Central Florida coast.
And of course, as for my family is still last.
So it was a twofold storm.
I was flying into it.
Parents at home were dealing with the actual forecast for that storm.
and it was quite the experience definitely an honor in my lifetime to fly with them we flew into the storm when it was in the southern gulf as a category four storm but as we were flying into it it was strengthening back into a category five storm so we were actually in the storm environment when they made the second upgrade for it to be a category five and so
we were in the storm environment for about five hours it was a nine hour flight in total so a long time to be in the c-130 aircraft there but it was definitely super fun the first pass through the eye wall as it was still strengthening was very very bumpy i can remember the turbulence we dropped like several hundred feet uh with the uh
you know severe updraft and downdrafts as the storm was still strengthening and then very interesting enough as we continue to make eyewall passes as the storm kind of leveled off this intensity the turbulence in the eye wall wasn't nearly as bad as that first eyeball pass was as it was still strengthening but we were in the again the environment for about five hours made five passes within the eye dropping those drops on to get those uh
information all the way from aircraft to the sea surface.
And we recorded in the center of the storm, the central pressure about, I think, 910 was the lowest that we got, 910 millibars.
So it was definitely a very strong storm.
And so, of course, as I was flying into it, my parents were like worried at home as I was flying into a Category 5 storm.
And they were kind of dealing with their preparations ready back home in Pinellas County.
Yeah, exactly.
One of the pilots I interviewed afterwards, he mentioned that fact that some of his roughest rides were actually in invest in developing tropical storms that are a little more disorganized.
So yeah, you have more of those disorganized updrafts and downdrafts can make it a lot more bumpy rather than, you know, a well humming category five machine that kind of has to act together.
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