Posted on 09/12/2018 11:44:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
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People Are “Fighting For Food” As Authorities Warn Florence “Could Produce A Disaster Comparable” To Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Florence is about to make a “direct hit” on the east coast, and public officials are making one ominous declaration about this storm after another. Florence is being called “extremely dangerous”, “a monster”, “the worst in 60 years” and “the storm of a lifetime”. By the end of this week we shall see if this storm lives up to the hype, but at this point it is definitely an immensely powerful storm. Hurricanes of this magnitude very rarely come this far north, and panic is starting to set in all across the mid-Atlantic region as people realize that this is really happening. Over a million people are in the process of evacuating, and it is being reported that there is “fighting for food” at the stores that still have some supplies left…
“It was chaotic! Oh my goodness, long lines!” said Fatimah Spivey.
Reilly Norman described it as “a mess in there; it’s wiped out clean.”
The water aisles were especially bare — empty shelf after empty shelf.
“We came around 1 and all the waters were gone,” said Blake Swain. “Now, it’s just people fighting for food.”
Interestingly, federal officials actually conducted a “simulation” that involved a category 4 hurricane hitting the mid-Atlantic region back in late April and early May…
Just months ago, disaster planners simulated a Category 4 hurricane strike alarmingly similar to the real-word scenario now unfolding on a dangerously vulnerable stretch of the East Coast.
That “simulation” produced “catastrophic damage” along the east coast, and as a result some experts are now concerned “that Hurricane Florence could produce a disaster comparable to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina“…
A fictional “Hurricane Cora” barreled into southeast Virginia and up the Chesapeake Bay to strike Washington, D.C., in the narrative created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Argonne National Laboratory.
The result was catastrophic damage, which has some experts concerned that Hurricane Florence could produce a disaster comparable to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and in a part of the country that is famously difficult to evacuate.
Let us hope that does not happen, because New Orleans still has not fully recovered from Hurricane Katrina after all this time.
But at this point things look very grim. The computer models are predicting a storm surge of somewhere around 20 feet and up to 45 inches of rain in some parts of North Carolina.
In addition, it is being projected that the insurance industry could be facing up to 20 billion dollars in losses.
And all of those numbers assume that this will remain a Category 4 storm. According to CNN, there is still a possibility that Florence “could become close to a Category 5 storm” before it slams into the Carolinas…
As of Tuesday morning, Florence was hurling 130-mph winds. Before it pummels the US coastline, Florence could become close to a Category 5 storm — meaning winds could approach 157 mph.
But even a Category 4 storm would be immensely devastating.
A 20 foot storm surge would cause more damage than the wind or the rain from the hurricane would. It would essentially be a giant “wall of water” that would “swallow parts of the coast”…
“Storm surge has the highest potential to kill the most amount of people,” FEMA Administrator Brock Long said. “It also has the highest potential to cause the most destruction.”
Storm surge is basically a wall of water that could swallow parts of the coast.
“This will have a storm surge in the 20-foot range,” Myers said.
And meteorologists are warning that in a worst-case scenario we could actually see Florence stall along the east coast for an extended period of time. According to the Weather Underground, this is how that could happen…
The steering currents driving Florence toward the East Coast will collapse on Friday, and models now agree the storm is likely to stall somewhere within 100 miles on either side of the coast, perhaps for one or two days.
The 12Z Tuesday run of the European model introduced a new and very distressing possibility: Florence stalling just offshore of North Carolina near Wilmington for roughly a day, then moving southwestward along and just off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, and finally making landfall close to Savannah, Georgia, on Sunday—all while still a hurricane. This outlandish-seeming prospect gained support from the 18Z run of the GFS model. It painted a very similar picture, with a landfall a bit farther north, near Charleston, on Sunday. The 18Z track from the experimental GFS FV3 model is very similar to the GFS track.
In such a scenario, the damage caused by this storm would be multiplied.
To say that this storm is “dangerous” would be a major understatement. And let us not forget that there are 12 nuclear power reactors directly in the path of this storm. If things go bad, they could go really, really bad.
As the storm draws closer to the coast, federal officials are begging people to get prepared…
Federal officials begged residents to put together emergency kits and have a plan on where to go.
“This storm is going to knock out power days into weeks. It’s going to destroy infrastructure. It’s going to destroy homes,” said Jeff Byard, an official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Of course those that have waited until now may find that it is already too late.
Gasoline stations all over the mid-Atlantic are already running out of gas, and store shelves are being “picked clean” of essential supplies…
Long lines formed at service stations, and some started running out of gas as far west as Raleigh, with bright yellow bags, signs or rags placed over the pumps to show they were out of order. Some store shelves were picked clean.
“There’s no water. There’s no juices. There’s no canned goods,” Kristin Harrington said as she shopped at a Walmart in Wilmington.
A “perfect storm” is literally heading for the east coast, and some believe that this could be a metaphor for what is happening to the nation as a whole.
For those of you living in the mid-Atlantic, please get out of the path of this storm, and our prayers are with you.
This article originally appeared on The Economic Collapse Blog. About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is publisher of The Most Important News and the author of four books including The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters.
yep, it’s a Prepper site................
Some people refuse to leave......................
They just can’t help themselves. They HAVE to interject politics and Trump in there somewhere.
Pathetic.
I had the same thought. Childish. The writer is not to be taken seriously.
This is not a game. This is real.................
I have a feeling that Low-Info Voter types will by and large be the hardest hit...
Even the Army plays games...
Since they don't want it, we should swoop in and grab it.
We need to meet at a bar and do penance by downing a few.
It’s a Cat 3 now... It might drop to a strong Cat 2 by the time it actually hits the coast. But, it is big, and will affect a large area. Also, the expected storm surge is unlikely to abate much before landfall.
I predict widespread moderate damage, some serious spot flooding, and a whole lot of over-preparation. But, better safe than sorry.
clean the tub really well and fill it up with water. Take any spare container you have and fill it up with water. When water stops flowing from the tap, the water heater will still have 40ish gallons of water.
Seen it dozens of times in FL. Two days before landfall, shelves get empty. Happens every time so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that’s been through a hurricane before yet still, it happens every time.
Maybe it was mine since I recently got my long languishing K5 to start and run again. No apology from me.
Life, wife, work, budgets, guerilla conditions, and other stuff kind of got in the way.
It came right to life after several months of partial disassembly.
There is cleanup and rearranging to do though.
https://cjneil82.smugmug.com/Project-K5/i-dBQpWVc/A
Stores should raise water prices to $10 a case. Gas should be $7a gallon.
Reasonable increases like that force people to get what they need, not five times what they want thus allowing water and gas for everyone.
Plus, you can save water for free. Hot water tank has 40 gallons.
A Sawyer Mini water filter is $20 at Walmart. It’ll purify 100,000 gallons. A friend manages water safety systems for the Army. He’s a true expert and fully approves the Sawyer. We keep one in the car, another in our emergency kit and another with my backpack gear.
[One woman was quoted, “What am I going to do now with all the stuff I bought?”.]
I think I can see her conundrum. It’s not like she could eat it or or drink it or donate some portion of it. SMH
Yeah I would certainly get off the Outer Banks but other than that I don’t see it being that dangerous.
Seriously is this going to be the BIGGEST overreaction EVER. I get it, the commie media needs something new to blame on President Trump..but its a hurricane, happens every year and this time will be no different..hopefully those who need to evacuate will do it and everything will be fine..but honestly, fighting for good, come on ridiculous already!
Ahhh ... so YOU'RE the one responsible for Florence!
Never let a Storm go to waste when you can use it to cause Chaos and plug Global warming
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