CIA's Agent 001, Joe Mcmoneagle Shares a Near-Death Hurricane Experience? 🌪️

And this class 5 hurricane arrives and sits on us for like 14 hours. And just as we're ready to get in there, two wild dogs went right in the van. Now, the van was a white enamelled van when we went in. Now it's stainless steel. We had a serious hurricane. I've been in probably 12 hurricanes in my life. And in Miami, this was the only class 5 hurricane I have ever been in. I never see another one. So, we're on a hill. We have an operational van. We have an admin van. The these are size of this room. Maybe just a little narrower shareh that exactly the size of this room. Two of those. We have some stick built maintenance equipment and whatnot. And then we have an antenna field. And it's all on paving at the top of that 52 foot above sea level, the hill, the one hill. And and this class 5 hurricane arrives and sits on us for like 14 hours. You did. Absolutely. So, everybody packs up and goes down to the runway where there's a uh C47, that's an old Gooni bird, you know, tail dragger sitting on the runway. And my boss said, "What I want you guys to do is me and my partner, when the wind gets above 75 knots, wrap all the classified material up in black plastic, throw it in the jeep cuz we're only like quarter mile away. Run down here and offload on the plane and we'll get out of here at 70 mph." Yeah. 75 knots. 75 knots. It's like maybe 85 miles hour or something. Anyway, so I'm watching the animator and I'm talking using a radio in North Code. I'm talking to Homestead, weather guy in Homestead and he's telling me where the hurricane is and the wind suddenly goes 75 knots, 115. We're rushing. We're just trolling stuff in the back of the Jeep and we just about get the Jeep loaded. Oh, there goes the plane. So we looked at each other and we said, you know, this is not going to be good. And he's never been in a hurricane before. He's from Chicago or something. So I said it, go to the maintenance shed, find the uh tie down chains because when they delivered these bands, they had to be coming in on a low boy. Yeah, sure. Chained to a low boy. So he goes to get the chains. I started driving these twoft stakes into the coral cuz this whole hill is just a mount of coral. So I drove the stakes in the coral. We chain these things down and he and I both like jumped up and down on the crank to get it as tight as we could get it. 115 knot winds. Yeah. Oh, by then it's up to like 130. Yeah. Sure. Climbing. We get everything of value into that one van. That was the operational van. And just as we're ready to get in there, two wild dogs went right in the van. I'm like, get out. Going anywhere. Yeah. You don't want to kick them out cuz it's a hurricane. So, we go in, we weld, we welded the inside seam of the door. You had a welder? Yeah. And you'll just We have all this equip on it or something. What we did is we wrapped the inside part of the door. There's like a five five pin door steel door. Oh, yeah. Okay. Wrapped everything with 1 in ground wire. Welded everything in place. So, was completely sealed. We're starting to hear these rocks and things hitting the side of the van. The wind starting to pick up. We're in this van for 20 hours at one point 3 and 1/2 ft of water inside because we're only 80 yards from the ocean. And we're sleeping wrapped up in army blankets up on top of these metal racks where we had all the equipment. So we're sleeping on top of the racks with the dogs in the in the blanket with us. But if you touched them, you know, I was like, "Don't handle me, man." It's like, oh god. 20 hours were in there and it was horrific because we didn't know when the van shaking violently. We didn't know when something was gonna happen that was going to be like terminal. Yeah. Your nerves must be just completely just totally on edge. And I was I was still I was talking to Homestead till the wind got to like 150 and my antenna just went right off the van. So when it finally did die down and go away and I was able to cut us out of the van, we came out of this van. Now the van was a white enamel van when we went in. Now it's stainless steel. There is no enameling on this van anywhere. It's just a mass of dents and cuts from the rocks and everything's gone. two pickup trucks, two Jeeps, the uh two KW sled mounted generators, all the cabling, all the antennas, the other van, the sheds, the repair shop, everything's completely gone. Not only that, but the asphalt in the underllayment scrubbed off the hilltop. I'm not kidding. It's the most impossible thing you could imagine. We found one of the trucks like 6 months later. You could see lighting off the side window. It's laying on its side in about 300 feet of water a half a mile offshore. A lot of people died. There were bodies in trees where they tied themselves in trees and we couldn't go anywhere cuz the road was gone. We didn't even know where the road had been. So, I guess it was 3 days. We had a ca we had a case of tuna fish and we had uh four cases of beer. We're trying to drink as little as possible because we don't know how long we're going to be there. You're rationing it. Yeah. We're like 15 mi from the base and there was nothing except the base and no road. So we're up there on this hilltop with these two wild dogs. We're feeding them tuna fish. They gave up on that in a hurry. They started killing crabs. They go into the woods, kill a crab. Yeah. They didn't share. But one day this noise, we had this this engine getting louder and louder. And this bulldozer just came off the side of the hill and went cut a whole new road. They thought we were dead. He came. Found us.