Hurricane Florence - September 2018

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We talked with our daughter around 6am this morning. She lives in Mt. Pleasant which is very close to Charleston SC. Their home is one block from the ocean.

She said she and her husband and our two granddaughters were preparing to leave. She was gathering all important papers plus treasured photos before they left.

They are planning on taking the backroads to their condo at Disney in Florida.

The real estate company they both work for has already shutdown for the rest of this week. Many companies have done the same.

Please pray for everyone who may be in the path of this monster storm.

While the hurricane winds are powerful and frightening it is the expected torrential rainfall which can cause the most casualties. I hope everyone will heed the many warnings and will evacuate. Even cities inland will not be safe due to so much expected rainfall which causes major flash flooding.

I hope the forecasters are wrong and Florence will not spin and hover once it comes ashore. That's the worst scenario that can happen.

Jmo
 
MelmothTheLost said:
Given that the coast where landfall is expected to occur is extremely low-lying and marshy, it's anyone's guess how far inland the storm surge could go. From what I've read this area hasn't had many direct hits so there may not be many previous events for comparison.
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jmo

i think it is gonna be the stall

sc no worries the fed govt has 800 extra people

it is a joke
 
Inthedetails said:
Is that the reason...or is it to prevent damage to infrastructure?

IDK.
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i agree with the previous poster

it had a passive aggressive tone to the whole story

don't call 911 we are not answering that is the first time i heard THAT

there is not a structure in place

were missing 17 bosses

Fema budget cut
 
Well, I've had an extremely busy day. Many stores out of everything and a lot of gas stations out of fuel. MY bank was closed as well.
I'm staying at my house, not near storm surge hazardous area. Have supplies, generator, food, water, medical and anything else I could think about.
Fran was the last Cat 3 to hit here directly. Major damage.
My youngest daughter in my other home near the water made reservations in Wilmington for the next three days. She just found out that the hotel has canceled all reservations and is closing down tomorrow due to an error in reporting from a reporter with The Weather Channel. Reporter incorrectly announced that all of New Hanover County was under a mandatory evacuation. Only the islands, beach and flood prone low lying areas are under mandatory evacuation. Now all those people who made reservations have no place to go. There are no rooms available in NC inland nor in SC and GA.
I was bringing a grill stand into the garage today and accidentally grabbed a hornets nest under the stand and a swarm of hornets stung me about 24 times. Hurt like hell.
People are really nervous here, who have lived here for awhile, then you have the idiots who are just thrilled to be experiencing a hurricane for the first time and want to go out and see everything during the hurricane. Curfews will be in place after today. I'll try to check in as long as I can. Pray for us.
 
I can tell you that during Hurricane Fran, if you decided to stay on the islands and refused to leave with a mandatory evacuation, they were told that absolutely no rescue personnel would be risking their lives to rescue them, period. They were on their own. Several people who decided to stay called the radio station and gave them their messages to their families because they thought that they were not going to make it out alive. One couple had to break into upper condos above theirs in order to survive because vehicles parked under their unit were floating and breaking up through the floor of their unit.
 
Usually if you don't evacuate in a mandatory evacuation, they will ask for your next of kin. It's not fair to expect a first responder to help you when you haven't headed warnings ahead of time. Navarre Beach, FL was a direct hit during Opal (it's a barrier island about 3 miles long and a mile wide). There was nothing left - no concrete slabs on the Gulf side of the island. Island was under water for months and after that there were only signs posted with "Property of ___." It was the creepiest feeling knowing that Mother Nature just demolished such a beautiful place.

If you are in the path of this storm, please listen to authorities!
 
...DANGEROUS FLORENCE HEADED FOR THE U.S. EAST COAST... ...EXPECTED TO BRING LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGE AND RAINFALL TO PORTIONS OF THE CAROLINAS AND MID-ATLANTIC STATES...
8:00 PM AST Tue Sep 11
Location: 28.0°N 67.9°W
Moving: WNW at 17 mph
Min pressure: 945 mb
Max sustained: 140 mph
 
It has been one whole year since my office closed due to Irma (power outage and flooding in the parking lot. It doesn't help that there is a gated community right behind our office and a pretty lake separating us. Oh, and the parking lot is on a lower level than that lake; water flows downhill).

And today it was nice enough to bicycle to work.

Have communicated with my other friends in NC and they are stocking up on supplies, are inland enough but ready if they are forced to evacuate.
 
The National Hurricane Center is warning of a triple threat in the Carolinas and Virginia:
  1. A “life-threatening storm surge” at the coast — a rise in ocean water over normally dry land.
  2. “Life-threatening freshwater flooding from a prolonged and exceptionally heavy rainfall event” from the coast to interior sections.
  3. “Damaging hurricane-force winds” at the coast and some distance inland.
The flooding might be similar to or worse than what the Carolinas experienced during Hurricane Matthew in 2016.

Hurricane warnings were issued for the South Santee River, in South Carolina, to Duck, N.C, and Albemarle and Pamlico sounds. This includes Wilmington, N.C.

Hurricane watches extended north to the North Carolina/Virginia border and south to the South Santee River, including the Charleston area.

The biggest surge should occur just to the north of where the eye of the storm comes ashore.

Hurricane warnings issued as ‘life-threatening’ Florence strengthens
 
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The District of Columbia and Maryland join NC, SC, and VA in declaring a State of Emergency.

North Carolina
Dare County officials warned that ocean overwash already was spilling onto low-lying roads and slowing evacuations there.

Virginia
Inland flooding likely to be catastrophic and could test the James River flood walls in Richmond, the state capital.

South Carolina
Mandatory evacuation of 1 million people living along the state’s coastal areas took effect at noon.
Boeing and Volvo shut down their Charleston factories, idling thousands who build 787s and sedans.

Hurricane warnings issued as ‘life-threatening’ Florence strengthens


The Hurricane Center describes the types of damage associated with Category 4 winds:
Well-built framed homes can sustain severe damage with loss of most of the roof structure and/or some exterior walls. Most trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.

If Florence makes landfall as a Category 4 in North Carolina, it would be the strongest storm to come ashore that far north on record.
 
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Lato said:
Hi friends....I googled the story of Hurricane Camille (1969) and people who were lost in that storm. Some stayed because they were told that the apartment house that they were in could take a hurricane.
The slab was all that was left. Actually....many slabs as house after house was gone. I love the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but in the days after Camille, we could not tell where one town stopped and the next started.
There were no street signs or houses or little restaurants or motels. It was so disorienting. If you have someone who wants to stay on any coast when a Cat 4 or 5 is coming in, perhaps this would help them make their decision.....
Hurricane Camille
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You are told that a tidal wave has never hit the Continental U.S. (The lower 48). That is not entirely true. A hurricane tidal surge IS a tidal wave. A lot of the devastation associated with H. Camille was because the tidal surge was OVER 33 feet, how much over was left to speculation. Bodies were found in trees a 1/4 mile inland. The recording wind gauge snapped off, so max speed was uncertain too.
H. Florence is a storm to respect, but the storm surge estimates I've heard are a 1/3 to 1/2 of Camille. The infamous apartment building was taken out by tidal surge. H. Florence's wrath will likely be Biblical rain over several days if it stalls or skirts the coast. I was in New Orleans for H. Betsy in 1965, H. Camille in 1969, and H. Katrina in 2005.

And you are 100% correct. If you can get out of the path of this storm, do so. I think it will be more like H. Katrina in effect and flooding, and just as deadly.

Good Luck to the South Atlantic Coast, and God Bless!
 
lonetraveler said:
Well, I've had an extremely busy day. Many stores out of everything and a lot of gas stations out of fuel. MY bank was closed as well.
I'm staying at my house, not near storm surge hazardous area. Have supplies, generator, food, water, medical and anything else I could think about.
Fran was the last Cat 3 to hit here directly. Major damage.
My youngest daughter in my other home near the water made reservations in Wilmington for the next three days. She just found out that the hotel has canceled all reservations and is closing down tomorrow due to an error in reporting from a reporter with The Weather Channel. Reporter incorrectly announced that all of New Hanover County was under a mandatory evacuation. Only the islands, beach and flood prone low lying areas are under mandatory evacuation. Now all those people who made reservations have no place to go. There are no rooms available in NC inland nor in SC and GA.
I was bringing a grill stand into the garage today and accidentally grabbed a hornets nest under the stand and a swarm of hornets stung me about 24 times. Hurt like hell.
People are really nervous here, who have lived here for awhile, then you have the idiots who are just thrilled to be experiencing a hurricane for the first time and want to go out and see everything during the hurricane. Curfews will be in place after today. I'll try to check in as long as I can. Pray for us.
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I hope you are well and do ok
 
HOnore on Williams

I did not quite grasp what he was saying earlier about all the military stuff being evacuated.

what he was saying is the fed govt is a joke right now in prep

all the resources fled the hurriacnae to GA.

There has been no addressing this in prep. There are no federal resources allocated .

They are hours away - with no prepositioning

planes have left /trucks have left /helicopters have left /ships have left/ from the installations in three states

the three states have the biggest of these resources in the nation

that is why the you stay don't call aint noone home is going out. None of us have heard anything that obnoxious this is why

the first 36 hrs are critical to deal with what is gonna happen ===stuff has to be ready not sitting states away

if there is anyone on this thread that has not left pls do

if anyone knows people that are in those areas pls advise of this new info explain that this is going to be different for the reasons he outlined above - unless tomm this changes

for you youngin Honore is a hero:

Katrina was a bumbling mess a total mess people were trapped for days and days

and days no one knew what to do

Finally our hero came in - Bush appointed a pal who raises horses to head FEMA>

Gen Honore WAS PISSED when he was finally called into NO

within hours the skies were filled with helicopters ==big ugly high water rescue trucks were crawling all over the city

he is on video screaming at national guard to put there damn guns down now and start loading survivors on those ugly trucks

weapons went down

the coast guard resucue helipcopters went 24/7 for days

caravans of large busses showed up in like 24 hours to get all the people trapped in superdome for like 4 days living with no food

toilets that were overflowed

dead people lied in the streets rotting for days

he is a hero

he knows his stuff

he was different tonight he had notes tonight he did not earlier

apparently he had been checking up on what the heck ready meant

by the numbers

he was not happy

it was actually like he was talking directly to washington

giving them details of what they had BETTER do tomm

on national tv he called for an investigation into the disaster called PR

he knows --

it is not only the magnitude of Florence itself

it is how woefully horrible this is now

his final deal if you do not start to get serious resources TOMM in place we are in big trouble

he demanded the national guard nationally to be mobilized

they are going to need like 25,000 people ready to move (that is not a typo)

I hope they play him over and over and over tonight

angry if you don't mind
 
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