Posted on 09/13/2018 4:56:18 PM PDT by Kartographer
North Carolina residents rushed to stack up on food, water, toilet paper and other necessities as 'monster' Hurricane Florence is set to touchdown in the state early this weekend.
A rowdy crowd was shown in a Facebook video shared by an employee from the supermarket off Glenn School Road in Durham Tuesday pushing one another and shouting as they hurried around the store to gather their supplies.
Police officers were even spotted making their rounds around the Walmart to ensure the safety of shoppers.
One officer is seen restraining a young boy as another shopper drops several bottles of water.
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They are already saying 90,00+ without power.
s/b 90,000+
It’s time to post a pic of the Heineken looter from Katrina.
It’s time to post a pic of the Heineken looter from Katrina.
There’s a bunch of power company trucks stayed at a hotel North of Baltimore.
Like Trump said. Prepared
typical. In Charlotte, if a half inch of snow is predicted, everyone rushes out and stocks up on a year’s supply of bottled water, milk, eggs, bread, and toilet paper, because ... now get this: there are always “shortages” when it snows ...
In Colorado, pretty much everyone stays stocked up ... I might go out and get a dozen eggs if i’m almost out before a blizzard is predicted to hit, and then I hunker down for a day or so until the roads are plowed ...
North Carolina residents rushed to stack up on food, water, toilet paper and other necessities as ‘monster’ Hurricane Florence is set to touchdown in the state early this weekend.
Category 1 is a “monster hurricane”? Don’t think so. Not a walk in the park, but hardly a “monster”. CAROL, HAZEL, HUGO...they were monsters.
“Important thing to remember - a lot of insurance policies will cover seepage, but you have to have flood insurance to cover rising water. At least, that was the rule after Katrina. I haven’t really kept up with hurricane law in the last 10 years.”
earthquakes and floods are standard exclusions and require expensive riders if you want coverage ... however, i think secondary damage like rain damage from a damaged roof IS covered ...
“It’s not the wind that will cause the most damage. It will be
the flooding if the storm stalls and takes a couple days to
move out and the rain to stop.”
indeed. and the worst flood damage is where the rivers full of rainwater from higher elevations all converge near the coasts, particularly when those flood waters arrive to meet ocean surges being blown ashore by hurricane winds ...
Normal behavior for Durham.
I have lived in Charlotte. Have you? Or are you some Colorado person who wants to dump on the south
Charlotte was hit directly with Hurricane Hugo and was out of power for eight days. People there plan ahead. The people in Charlotte already got their water four days ago.
This video is of Durham. Those people have had since Monday to get water. The storm is hitting Durham in the next few hours and these morons are now thinking about getting water?
Charlotte local news was always entertaining when the white powder from the sky was on the way.
It was always the end of everything for each newscast.
Florence is a nothing burger. It is now cat 2 and will quickly peter out. It will miss Raleigh and Durham. All they will see is rain and 40 mph winds. The downside is the soil here is so sandy, it won’t take much to up end trees. Water plants won’t be after. They have aux power units.
It’s dangerous. People will ignore these warnings if they think it’s all political hype. It’s crying wolf.
“I have lived in Charlotte. Have you?”
yep. i was born, raised and schooled in Charlotte. i still have tons of relatives and dear friends who live there, and it’s a running joke among them about the “shortages” engendered by runs on grocery due to minor snow forecasts, because everyone there knows that snow causes “shortages” ... we always exchange a few emails joking about it every time a dusting of snow is predicted ...
I’ve been watching Leland Vittert on Fox-—it would a crying shame if the storm swept him away./s
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I live in RTP and we have already lost a tree.
Yep, Durham. NC’s own New Orelans a.k.a. ‘chocolate city’
You can only get flood insurance if you live in a designated flood zone. Those who don’t will be covered under the “act of God” clause, if they have that.
Durham again. Were these panic stricken victims of DJT dindus by some chance?
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