Matt Lanza

There's one warning that gets issued by local National Weather Service offices when you have a particularly strong hurricane come ashore, and it's called an extreme wind warning.

And they'll post that when the eyewall of a storm where the strongest winds are starts to move into a particular place.

It doesn't have to be urban.

It can be rural, suburban, whatever.

But whenever those winds are like 120, 30, 40 miles an hour,

you're going to get that warning.

And that's basically the moment where you have to say, you got to be in the safest place humanly possible, and you just stay there until it's over.

Yeah, it's really kind of fascinating when you deal with this.

So one thing that's very common, this is extremely common.

What will happen is you get like a really strong hurricane that goes through, like, say, the Caribbean.

You've got a lot of like exotic birds down there.

And they'll get caught in the middle of the storm.

They'll get caught in the eye of the hurricane.

You can even see it sometimes on radar.

If you look on radar at a hurricane, you'll see what we call ground clutter.

But it's actually biological, what we classify as biological material because it's birds, it's bugs, it's all this different stuff.

And they get caught in the eye.

And so what happens is, you know, the storm, let's say hypothetically, a storm goes through the Caribbean, comes up through Florida into the southeast.

And all of a sudden, like in North Carolina, you start getting reports about these ridiculous birds that they've never seen before that have just shown up.

It's because the hurricane left them there.