Posted on 10/06/2016 4:10:09 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Matthew is big, bad and just downright scary, with iminent and sustained impacts to U.S. mainland. Florida Governor Rick Scott issued a state of emergency for all of Florida and disaster operations are activated. More than 1.5 million Floridians reside in current evacuation zones. Governor Scott has spoken with utilities across the state to ensure utilities are pre-positioned and there are no unmet needs. Multiple coastal hospitals have been evacuated. Meanwhile, feckless President Barack Hussein Obama is personally monitoring the progress of the storm.
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It’s New Englander’s that are the worst....spent 6 months there and was never so glad to leave an area as I was there....the air is far more than just stuffy.
From what I have been watching, it is the inland peoples that have been flooded with double digit amounts of rain. I was NOT specifically referencing the coastal resorts. South Carolina is only allowing people back that fled based upon the ‘county’s’ clearance. BUT some of those that fled to inland had to be rescued because of the heavy inland rain. And those rivers and creeks will not crest for days.
See that red pickup truck in the first photo? The storm didn’t put it up on the porch, the owner put it there to keep the engine and cab out of the water. Poorer people around Hatteras improvise like that. The more well off already have raised parking.
With a hurricane, tropical storm or even a nor’easter, comes heavy rain. Sympathy for those who experienced loss or inconvenience is definitely in order, however it is a fact of life in coastal SC and NC. It’s happened before and it will happen again.
Am not familiar with the area...
I have an interesting observation I’ve noted.....
Clinton were trying to get revenue flowing to Haiti again......I’ve watched this and saw lots of complaining Haiti wasn’t making the news via the NY Times and their Journalists trying to push it........the death numbers could not be confirmed as it was all over the map from 200 to over a thousand......but that’s how they work it...increasing the deaths increases the revenue flow... so those wise to that tactic were waiting to see and get a correct reading.
Now I’m noticing when I get photos on matthews damage in the states google’s loading the pages with Haiti’s photos...or someones controlling it.
Haiti will always get hit hard with anything that goes thru there...and it’s not people don’t care...it’s people are weary of never seeing any results for the vast reveneus that flow thru there every time....and the lack of initiative of the people there to change their circumstances....wither because they won’t or they simply cannot.
South Carolina just went through some nasty flooding. That is NOT my point. The governor of South Carolina demanded that people living a hundred miles from the coast evacuate. What she did NOT count on is the inland rain and some of those that did evacuate found themselves needing rescued this morning because of the inland rain. The 'inland rain' amounts were NEVER part of any warning. Some places in South Carolina and North Carolina, way inland receive double digit rainfall amounts. Safe places turned out to NOT be safe.
Yea I saw one car in somebody’s living room to keep it safe!
The people of Haiti are fatalistic, they do little to improve their circumstance and this includes better structures, removal from flood-prone areas and preparation. Unless or until this changes, a hurricane is always going to be a tragedy with a high death toll in Haiti. They do what they’ve always done, and get what they’ve always got. Sad, but true.
I saw rainfall totals forecast close to ten inches just east of Charlotte and not far from Raleigh, while the hurricane was still off the coast of Florida. The level of inland damage was somewhat of a surprise, but it was not totally unforeseeable. There is risk with mass evacuations, but the risk was seen as less than remaining in immediate coastal areas and even the more flood-prone, marshy inland locations. We don’t control nature, the forecasts just give an illusion that we actually know what’s going to happen.
I don’t know that I’d go that far, it must’ve been a small car to fit through french doors or something, and not collapse the floor joists.
Well it might be because no matter the degree of destruction in a storm one should be sensitive to those who do loose life and belongings and homes.....you didn’t come across as one who was.
Many prayers were said throughout this nation that it would not come on land and destruction and life would be protected.......the news does their job.... the outcome is always in the hands of the one who controls it all.
Yes they are....generations on and they’re worse off then when they began......it would be helpful if they’d stop practicing their Voo doo crap....that’s nasty stuff!
I’m convinced they don’t change things because they don’t have the know how to organize and get things done......then the government is so corrupt they never get the funds to do it....added into that mix a general attitude that the only answer is to find a way out of the country by most Haitians. They have no loyalty to Haiti itself.
No it was a very large living room...with some sort of paneled door pretty wide.
Sounds as if it was built for that eventuality, then.
I am NOT disagreeing with anything except the claim this storm was ‘over-hyped’... and not that big of a deal. What was over-hype was the weather forecasters ability to forecast this storm.
I’m in North Carolina. I saw the rainfall forecast on Friday evening, and commented here on FR that it was surprising how the heavy rainfall was in a relatively narrow band up to the Carolinas, then broadened way out. I also thought Haley’s massive mandatory evacuation was somewhat stupid when announced, check my posting history for that, too. But, it may have saved lives even if it did end up putting some people in harm’s way who would have been fine at home.
Just a brief check-in from Whiteville, NC. Power is still out and I’m still using my tablet on Verizon. Your pics give a good idea of what’s going on here. Floodwaters are still rising; the Cape Fear, Lumber, Waccamaw and Pee Dee Rivers won’t crest for another couple of days.
Lots of homes and businesses flooded, and trees down everywhere. In addition, farmers will suffer millions of dollars of losses in late-season crops. The news media tend to focus more on cities, businesses, resorts, etc., and people forget about the farmers.
I personally dodged a bullet this time, and had no flooding and only minimal wind damage. Thanks to all my FRiends here for your prayers! You guys are really good! Now if we can only get power back we can start to clean up and rebuild. This doing “internet by candlelight” (in this case literally!) is no fun. Gotta go now and save the batteries. Prayers and God Bless to everyone.
Yes, my yard and house were not flooded nor were the roads right near me. But there were trees down nearby and some roads were impassable fairly near me. Trees down in Raleigh where my Brother lives - he is still without power. I lost power for six hours only. Yes, the flooding is horrible in certain areas especially - Fayetteville, Goldsboro, Lumberton, and many more.
Thanks again for all the photos and for the good wishes.
That lone man walking toward destruction makes it real. This pic tells the whole story. I save ones like this. One of the Cuban photos you posted of a man hugging his wife in front of what was once their home told the whole story. As an aside, the difference between capitalism and communism is seen in the homes and clothing and even the weight of the people. Makes me count my blessings to be alive now at the end of the Age of Enlightenment.
Hope the power companies and their employees get your electricity back on. When you have time, let us know..
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