Posted on 09/10/2018 9:29:52 AM PDT by SMGFan
Hurricane Florence is a rapidly strengthening major storm with sustained 130 mph winds as it heads toward a potentially devastating landfall in the Southeast U.S. later this week, already prompting evacuation orders on the North Carolina coast.
The National Hurricane Center is warning of “life-threatening” storm surge in the Carolinas and Virginia, as well as “a prolonged and exceptionally heavy rainfall event” in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic.
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At the moment a lot of guidance has Florence stalling just off the NC coast for almost 72 hours before pushing inland, this could reduce the wind impacts but some places will get very heavy rain as a result, however, this is such a strong hurricane already that I suspect it may be able to push a little harder against the blocking ridge and move inland some distance before stalling, then it would be wind, surge and rain all maxing out (most likely from Cape Lookout to Virginia Beach but possibly further south too, then inland mostly to the north of the hurricane track for flooding rainfalls). Hoping for the best but fearing a bad outcome with this one.
“You saying Rehoboth might not be the place to be next weekend?
:-(”
I used to work for a small Arbor-culture business, we got acquired by a national company. Current guidance from the office manager is to pack a go bag as we could be sending crews to wherever the storm hits.
Bring chainsaws and the locals my be very generous.
150 people died in Virginia.....Virgina due to flash floods and mudslides during Camille in ‘69. Unbelievable.
God bless all the folks in harms way.
“It’s saturated here - rain will be devastating”
There’s a lot of tobacco and cotton in that area as well - right? And it’s pretty close to harvest season - right?
Not even taking the human cost into consideration, the agricultural cost could be really really high.
Yikes!
Yeah Raleigh looks to be getting a direct hit. Being inland helps but this thing is beelining for her.
I’m an Alumnus, and my son is finishing his last year there now.
Go Wolfpack!
You TRUST a school to think for You and Your Son ?
What school and location if it has multiple campie ?
““If Trump didn’t bow out of the Paris deal, this wouldn’t have happened!”?”
indeed. it’s Mother Gaia’s way of fighting back against Trump for taking the U.S. out of the Paris deal ....
At the very least, get gas in your cars tonight. When everybody is thinking of leaving, expect the gas stations to run dry early.
When I was in the World Trade Center in 1993, and the building got bombed, we low-level peons (I was working as a file clerk) were herded to one corner of the office allegedly to await instructions. Meanwhile, all the suits were evacuating down the stairwell. In other words, we were being made to wait for the important people to escape first.
I said screw that, headed for the stairs, and told the rest of the peons to follow me, which most of them did.
In a crisis you must not trust authorities because your life is not valuable to them. Get your son out, now.
And to think that when I moved to NC from Texas all I remember hearing about on the snews weather worry wart segment was: “ Drought panic, Drought sky not falling, Drought end of World, Drought crops going to die, Drought will be caused by Drought, blah blah blah to Infinity and Beyond...
Now it’s We’re all gonna Drown, Stock up on supplies, End of World again...
God’s going send what He sends and Humanity will survive. We moved from Old Bridge, NJ to Houston, TX in July of 69 And it was HOT AND HUMID!!!
Then Hurricane Celia rolled through and We stocked and Boarded up. Us Damned Yankees survived.
This was before the Weather people started whipping everybody up into a Panicky Overworried Frenzy like they do now.
Caution and Preparedness are smart, but good grief people CALM DOWN A NOTCH OR TWO !
hell the weather drama queens name snowstorms now...
Love nullschool windfields but wow did you run the model? Not sure which is live because you can’t choose between the three (which is weird), but advancing the model by +3 hours will blow your mind ... it shows the storm hooking at Hatteras then regressing south for a day then another tack at Hatteras. Never comes inland.
Wow if it were to stall over the Gulf stream for a day. Wow.
Hey, I’ve got TWO knobs, and one is bigger than the other. :-D
Can anyone here give me good info about how this will impact the Charlotte NC area? I have an elderly mother-in-law who can be stubborn about leaving. She lives by herself but does have a caregiver a few times a week. No immediate family is within driving distance, and we’re wondering if the airport might be closed before someone can be there. One sibling was scheduled to be arriving on Sunday, but that seems late if this hits when they’re thinking.
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