Posted on 09/09/2018 8:01:18 AM PDT by NautiNurse
September 10 is the statistical peak of the Atlantic Tropical Storm season, and the conga line of storms dancing across the Atlantic is not disappointing historical data. The Governors of NC and SC have declared states of emergency for a potential major hurricane landfall, while Hurricane Florence is slowly creeping westward. Florence is predicted to increase forward motion and intensity Monday. Hurricanes Hazel (1954) and Hugo (1989) are two notorious major hurricanes to make landfall in NC and SC, respectively. North Carolina has prior experience with "F" named hurricanes. Hurricanes Fran (1996) and Floyd (1999) caused widespread flooding and damage in the Tar Heel state.
The NHC has been issuing Public Advisories for Florence since August 30. The five day "Cone of Uncertainty" archive progression since Aug. 30 may be found here.
Isaac is a small storm. Isaac is predicted to steadily strengthen during the next few days as the storm remains over warm waters and in a low wind shear environment in the short term. The NHC predicts Isaac will reach hurricane status within 2 days.
Helene is expected to reach hurricane status in the short term. However, Helene is not anticipated to threaten U.S. interests. The forecast track turns north into the mid-Atlantic.
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Forecast moved to closer to N. Myrtle Beach.
I know, but you are going to have evacuees parked everywhere on their way west, especially in RVs.
Well, Take a shot and move on.
The problem with this area are the mountain roads are narrow and rock slides might be a result .....
.....however the locals are loving and generous......they will pitch in.
Square boxes are alright I guess. You must work for the NSA.
That south track will be hell.
Thanks for the great thread, NN! I’m in far off Colorado, but I like to know how our East Coast FReepers are faring.
Best suggestion: Stay updated with and heed your local Emergency Management advisories.
Laz, you scamp!
We’ve gotten along fine for over 500 posts in this thread and stayed relatively on topic as requested.
There’s info being shared in here that may just save someone’s life, and diabetic cats etc ain’t part of it.
Maybe you should start a Humorcane thread.
“Biggest impact will most likely be the large influx of evacuees looking for lodging and food.”
They’re already here in WNC. The walmart parking lot had numerous RV’s and camper trailers in it this morning.
Going to check it out on Friday and see how many more have arrived.
Guenevere, As TADLOS said, the low lying areas will flood. That means any farm field in a valley will be covered and the water will come up over the adjoining road in a lot of those areas. Landslides will be an issue and there’s probably some old dams that might have problems.
Best to hunker down and stay put through the weekend and keep the local news on if they go to live feed.
Brock Long Brick Short will be the poster boy for everything disastrous following Florence landfall.
My neighbors thought I was nuts yesterday morning when I told them up to 40”+ inches of rain here in the mountains.
I posted 8 dam posts on a thread of 552 posts.
That's a little more than 1%.
If you think someone is gonna DIE because I posted a DIABEETUS CAT, then you are granting me the powers of the Almighty.
In which case, I SMITE THEE!
Maybe your neighbors aren’t old enough to remember hurricane Hugo
I have a helluva wicked, dry sense of humor, actually.
Sometimes you’re funny too, and sometimes you’re not.
This is one of the latter.
Oh, and lots of trees will be going down. Be prepped for extended power outage...days...could be a week or more depending how far out the grid you’re located.
Remember, wells don’t work if there’s no electricity.
I was 10 days without during Ike, had generator and just barely enough fuel to run 24/7. Late wife was on oxygen and had to keep the machine working round the clock.
One of the worst things, during Harvey, was lack of communication due to power outages.
No power, no wifi....
What saved us, was having an iPad that had cellular. We kept that charged via a generator and watched our local news.
Getting updates from our local OEM was VERY frustrating!! They wouldn’t update the road conditions, so it was difficult for folks to know which way to try to evacuate.
I ended up calling EVERY sheriff’s department between our county and the county (outside of San Antonio), where we evacuated to, to get road conditions, for I-10.
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