A friend in FL and her retirement community neighbors experienced the evacuation nightmare. The only way to avoid the no good solution nightmare is to leave a few days ahead of time and get hundreds of miles away, and stay away until sustainable living conditions are restored.
Since that time, I believe it dropped to a tropical depression and now has regained strenght to a Cat 4. Maybe it dropped it's sand along the way.
The weather guy on youtube said he had never seen anything like a cat 4 loaded with sand before.
Leave Baltimore now! Don’t linger to gather personal items, not even family members.
Remember, if you aren’t out of Baltimore by Wednesday, your EBT will be suspended. Leave NOW!
/snerk
Florence? Isn’t that an ante-bellum name associated with Southern plantation slavery?
Hurricane be rayciss!
How long will it take for Leonardo DiCaprio (or some other climate hoaxer)to come out and say that “If Trump didn’t bow out of the Paris deal, this wouldn’t have happened!”?
I give it by the end of next weekend.
Keep an eye on the wind currents. This could stall and build strength, take a turn north and then a sharp left right into DE.
They’ve been taking extra measurements by jet and weather balloons to get extra data, so the probability cone is smaller than usual.
Thank you. In all the reports I’ve looked at; none actually say when it will hit.
Maybe the storm stops and starts moving forward to make it impossible till now. Still; even a good guess would have been helpful.
Sustained winds are bad, but the wind gusts are gut wrenching (if you’ve ever rode out a high cat storm). You never forget that sound.
Just leave. Especially if you have children. It’s terrifying.
Joe Bastardi
“If I am right, this will be the most costly disaster for the Carolinas and Virginias on record. In addition, given our winter forecast, we expect the core of the cold and snow, relative to average, to be near these same areas, which means this could very well be the most extreme six-month period on record there. A hurricane as strong as Hugo or Hazel, flooding rains due to Florence’s slow movement, the possibility of an exceptional winter — you can’t get much more extreme than that.
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https://patriotpost.us/opinion/58148-hurricane-florence-how-we-got-here
The big danger is the potential 48 inches (1,219 mm) of rain that could affect western North Carolina, western Virginia and southern West Virginia. That much rain could cause massive damage. No wonder both Norfolk Southern and CSX railroads have their maintenance crews on high alert starting right now.
My daughter is a student at NCSU in Raleigh. Wondering whether we should bring her home. Looks like it could be miserable.
The good news for me personally is that I JUST moved away from Virginia. The bad news is I’m in California.
Watch out, Glasgow, VA.
Can anyone here give me good info about how this will impact the Charlotte NC area? I have an elderly mother-in-law who can be stubborn about leaving. She lives by herself but does have a caregiver a few times a week. No immediate family is within driving distance, and we’re wondering if the airport might be closed before someone can be there. One sibling was scheduled to be arriving on Sunday, but that seems late if this hits when they’re thinking.
Relatives were stationed at Marine Air Station Cherry Point when Bertha and Fran came through in the same season. Left the place looking like an apocalypse movie for quite a while.
Might be a good time to head up to high ground for a few days.