Posted on 07/03/2014 4:02:22 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Arthur becomes the first hurricane of the 2014 Atlantic season. Independence Day travelers and revelers up and down the U.S. Atlantic coast are eying the path of the storm. Forecast models are in good agreement that Hurricane Arthur will dampen July 4th festivities along the N.C. Outer Banks. Mandatory evacuation of the Outer Banks has begun. Warm waters from the Gulf Stream are adding fuel to the storm development.
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thanks so much for your posting efforts..YOU are the only advisory I follow.
Will Florida get any of it? rains? Doesn’t look like.
We camped in Waves in our ultralight travel trailer in late April. The week after we came home, there was a bad storm with hail and we read that it wrecked a lot of RV roofs. So RVing down there really is a crap shoot, I guess.
Years ago my family camped at Buxton in a 18 foot Twilight trailer. The park rangers drove through with an announcement that a storm was coming and we would experience hurricane force winds and were to stay inside.
The storm barely reached wind speeds that would qualify it has a level 1 hurricane and as a result to this day when Hurricanes are reported on the East cost I still do not feel safe...
here in Southern Ohio...
The Weather Channel is in drama mode, but hurricane tracking forecasts do allow preparation and evacuation plans well in advance. Not so true for earthquakes, volcanoes, sink holes, landslides, forest fires, isolated/erratic storms with heavy rains/flooding and tornadoes.
Living on the Georgia coast I gave birth to my daughter during the 1964 Dora hurricane. Too young to panic;) We did not name her Dora!!!!!
Prayers up.
Looks like it has only moved a little bit north since yesterday.
Waiting for Obama to blame Bush, Tea Party members or Republicans for Arthur in 3, 2, 1...
A lot of the attraction is feeling like you’re at the end of the earth, the wind, the roar of the waves, the dunes always moving. Pretty stiff breeze on a normal day.
We need to start giving more hurricanes names like Ladisha and Deshawn, or Achmed and Fatima. Gotta be sensitive you know! /s
every time I look at the map it looks like it has hardly moved at all.
Not looking forward to going to work in the rain and wind tomorrow. :-(
Here’s a link to a surf cam at Cape Hatteras. Beautiful day, sun’s out, looks like the normal Hatteras surf to me.
http://www.surfchex.com/hatteras-web-cam.php
There cams at other beaches at the same link. Looks like rain has gotten as far north as Wrightsville Beach, NC. Folly Beach near Charleston, SC normally has very moderate surf, but it looks to be picking up.
Looks like it has only moved a little bit north since yesterday.
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I’m surprised you didn’t think it had backed up.
Did you look at the time and date stamp on the image?
Thanks Nauti Nurse:)
“A lot of the attraction is feeling like you’re at the end of the earth, “
That’s the allure of the Core Banks for me. It’s Hatteras without a bridge or development.
The images might not load quickly (or at all) as the hurricane approaches,
since everybody wants to see what the storm looks like from the 141 foot tower..
And so it does.............
Looking at the devastation that remains after “Sandy”, can you imagine the shrieking that would be going on if Bush were in office?? What’s it been - two and a half years, and some people are still living like Ethiopians...
OH you mean hurricane zero which spawns val/jar twisters and axelrod low pressure systems?
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