[Howlin]

What's your point?

Do you think North Carolina hasn't had it share of hurricanes?

We've yet to wait for the president OR FEMA to tell us what to do or pick up the pieces.

[ekwd]

I was born in Burlington, spent a lot of time in Nags Head, was in Rodanthe, Morehead City and New Bern in June of this year. Yes NC has a lot of hurricanes. I passed through Wilmington a few days after Fran hit in 1996. I am telling you that you cannot compare a TS Ophelia (which you mentioned first) with a Cat 4/5 Rita.
If Rita were to follow the track still predicted this morning it would have been the equivalent of going inland from Wilmington to Cape Hatteras and staying a Cat 1 to Raleigh. In this case at least, Perry has had a much more serious situation to deal with than Easley faced with Ophelia.