Hurricane Florence Live Thread II

NHC/NOAA ^ | 12 September 2018 | NHC/NOAA

[mewzilla]

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nc/nwis/current/?type=precip

If I read that chart right, Looks like Wilmington has gotten 16” of rain so far.

[PeteB570]

This is a poor picture because the camera is sitting on the kitchen table pushed up against the southern facing window. We were in a hurry Sunday and picked the two positions pretty quick. The screen doesn't move so we're looking through it.

[RegulatorCountry]

Where is this to have that much elevation, Emerald Isle? The barrier islands south of there are typically pretty flat other than the beach dune line. Well, Oak Island has that one old house, I recall being able to see it from childhood when it was very evidently sitting atop a large dune across West Beach, a low slung single story Spanish Colonial. Now you can barely see it, the dune and even driveway is hidden by wind-sculpted Yaupon trees. When that place finally goes on the market it’ll fetch a pretty penny, quite a few acres along with it in the parcel.

[PeteB570]

Mainland side behind Holden Beach.

[RegulatorCountry]

Supply I guess, or is that the mainland town only behind Oak Island just to the west?

[PeteB570]

About equal distance between Southport and M. Myrtle Beach.

[RegulatorCountry]

Oh I’m familiar with the where, I just wasn’t aware that there was any of Holden Beach actually on the mainland side.

[PeteB570]

Holden Beach is all on the Island. Just easier to explain where it is instead of trying to give directions from Supply or Shallotte.

[RegulatorCountry]

Here's a very recent pic from Hatteras Island, taken not even an hour ago, just north of Rodanthe, at probably the weakest, most storm damage-prone area on the entire Outer Banks. NCDOT has been hard at work, Highway 12 remains passable and open to emergency vehicles. Pavement appears unbroken beneath the plowed sand. Dune line looks heavily eroded, with one blowout allowing overwash. All in all, not bad.

[rollo tomasi]

Keep in mind the heaviest rainfall is project to start Saturday afternoon. Landfall (Half as of writing this) is just the appetizer with this system... and again, a lot of areas that are going to be affected were drenched before this storm even formed (Wind is irrelevant with the $$$ billions this storm will cause).

[Oorang]

Just heard from family and friends in Leland/Belville area (just west of Wilmington). They still have power but major damage with downed trees, broken windows, etc. Now it’s wait for flooding but hoping it doesn’t happen; they are just 1/2 mile from a river.

[RegulatorCountry]

Broken windows? What broke them? Falling trees, unsecured lawn furniture? Debris blowing off other houses?

[Oorang]

Broken, flying, tree limbs.

[little jeremiah]

I am checking this thread daily as I have a good friend in Charlotte who probably doesn’t have electricity now. If anyone sees news about Charlotte could I be pinged?

[PeteB570]

We’re in Fayetteville, about 90 miles east of Charlotte.

Little windy and on and off rain. Nothing bad yet.

Power blinked once for a second around 8:30.

[AppyPappy]

News out of Ocracoke is all positive for now.

[Black Agnes]

You killed a dinosaur!

An endangered dinosaur!

[RegulatorCountry]

Village Craftsmen has been posting pics and video to their Facebook page, pretty up to date. Some minor flooding, some broken trees. That appears to be it thus far.

[neal1960]

40 miles SE of Charlotte here. A little breezy and clouds blowing from the north. Power outages can be found here..https://www.duke-energy.com/outages/current-outages

[Blennos]

Very few power outages now in Charlotte. Only 287 out of 459,000 population.

https://outagemap.duke-energy.com/ncsc/default.html