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.
Even more..a variety of water filters and decontamination pills. Turn that swollen creek into a potable water source.
We were in the great Kansai earthquake of 1995 (Japan) which happened just before 6 am. By 6 pm, the army had a water wagon set up at a nearby school. My daughter, then age 9, went to stand in line to collect the 2 gallon water ration for our family.
She reported back that the only disturbance was from an orderly crowd trying to urge an old woman forward so she wouldn't have to stand in line like everyone else. However, the old woman insisted on waiting her turn.
Know what the best Bug Out thing there is? A small camper trailer. You got everything in there you need..even if you cant get outta dodge you got it. As long as you have the LP Gas and gasoline to charge the battery’s you got it made.
And you dont need a generator to charge the battery’s either.
I’m here in Washington state as well. My kids weren’t laughing at me when I pulled out a 50 count box of nice dust masks with the little valve. All the stores were out of any kind of masks due to the smoke last month.
Actually - it was the ice storm we had 10(?) years ago now when they quit making fun of my emergency supplies.
Unlike that idiot Bush, we actually have a grown up in the WH now.
The storm will hit but our commander in chief will be prepared. There is not a storm that Satan can throw at this nation our righteous leader cannot prepare for
The press always hypes these storms to death. The coast always takes a beating. Board up and leave for a few days.
I had trouble finding gas to get out of Greensboro. But I was able to buy gas on Ocracoke. Go figure
They’ve been warning of this storm for nearly 2 weeks now. That’s plenty of time to make preparations if one has any common sense.
They’ve been warning of this storm for nearly 2 weeks now. That’s plenty of time to make preparations if one has any common sense.
Unfortunately the public still believes someone else needs to tell them what to do...and what to think.
The Democrats are dying to put a ‘katrina’ on Trump!
Got hyperbole?
Take your garbage can and rinse it out.
Install large garbage bag inside garbage can.
Throw a cap full of unscented bleach in.
Tie bag closed, tie garbage can lid closed.
I never buy water........
I don’t ALWAYS put the cat food cans in the recycling.
OK I’m in.
Fresh fruit will often keep for a number of days.
Bread too.
You cook the meat (and eggs) before the storm hits.
You eat the meat and drink the milk initially.
Then eat/drink other perishables.
Only then do you open the cans and eat the contents.
As for water, you full up every pot, jar, vase, etc. with tap water before the storm hits and leave them on the counter for use after the storm hits.
As for washing, container #1 most dirty, container #2 fairly clean, container #3 very clean. Hands -> 1 ->2 -> 3.
Hunger games in aisle #5
Lets get ready to rumble
Hurricane season starts June 1 and runs to Novenber 30
You should be collect supplies WAY before the storm.
We donate all our unused supplies to the needy at Thanksgiving
Wait... What...... BAR, Im in
it gotta be 5 o’clock somewhere
I going to the Olympics, I specialize in the 12 ounce curls
She gonna get plenty of waters...
>>People never heard of water containers one fills up with the hose on the side of your house.
But, that’s hose water! That’s the same kind of water that goes in the toilet!
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