Posted on 08/13/2004 10:08:09 AM PDT by Jeff400000
The 1200Z forecast track should be up at that link in just a few minutes. At this point (looking at the 0900Z track) it looks like the Georgetown/Pawleys Island area is still going to be landfall, and Myrtle Beach will get the east side winds as it moves up. But it's moving up the coast at such a shallow angle, everybody from Charleston on north will get some hard wind and rain out of it.
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Wilmington, NC NWS short range radar with a good view of Charley (as of 8:15). Looks like it's just offshore of Charleston right now and heading north, a little further west than they were calling for earlier. Heads up, Georgetown.
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As you can see from the list I put up yesterday there are many freepers in harms way. At minimum, many of them are without power right now. I hope that they are all okay and that eventually they will be able to check in.
Minimal damage. Power on (except Rockledge). Winds peaked about 40Kts last night.
Glad to hear you and yours are OK, Oxen!
My prayers go out to all those hit the hardest. It is so sad to hear about the elderly, who maybe didn't have the means or ability to get out before it hit.
"Punta Gorda hit badly. LE is guarding stacks of bodies in a mobile home park there according to FoxNews. 4 counties declared major disaster areas. "
Sorry but I think modular or mobile homes in hurricane prone areas should have a mandatory mobile home community storm bunker equipped with a generator for all of the mobile park residents to stay safe in. It's the most sensible solution so far. There is no way these people could have remained out of harms way inside their mobile homes. The news showed another senior citizen retirement mobile home park that is destroyed. I find it hard to believe home insurers there carry these mobile homes. It isn't practical or safe. Many many Oklahoma residents have tornado bunkers.
Thanks for checking in Oxen .. I'm just seeing the video on CNN .. a lot of damage
Sending prayers for all
I'm close to Whitehouse. Just to give y'all an idea of where I am.
I'm looking to see what the report is currently on Ocean Isle. Have they evacuated?
And once you take that first step on that slippy Freudian slope, you can certainly movement a long ways.
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MSNBC is saying that Captiva is split in two and that there is a 400 foot "inlet" of water.
I'm here! Glad to see that you are okay. How is the boat?
Good morning..............how is everyone?
God be with those in south west Florida.
OMG--that is exactly what I had imagined last night for Captiva and Sanibel.
Everything is fine here. No problems at all. Got home about 5:45pm. What is it like in Charleston today?
Glad to hear it.
We got a lot of rain over night - I don't know if it was remnants of Bonnie or something else.
Thanks for the info. Just hung up the phone with my brother in Mandarin (Jax area) and they are fine too.
What's the news from Daytona up through Ormond, Flagler, and Saint Augustine?
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