[OT] Hurricane Florence on its way

Mnethercutt · Sep 10, 2018

Just found out they cancelled my universities classes starting Wednesday evening so going home to help family with storm prep. Our area has a history of flooding so we gotta move all the hay and feed out of the horse barn, praying it wont flood so we don't have to evacuate it. Dad already went out and got gas for the generators and chain saw. He says there's some trees leaning towards our tractor sheds too. He's moving his Kubota out of the way but my John Deere is undergoing an engine rebuild so praying hard those trees fall the other way if they go...

Hope anybody else in the area is ready...they say it's gonna be the worst storm to ever hit NC

Jegs · Sep 10, 2018

My daughter and SIL and my 3 Grandkids live right outside LeJeaune in Hubert NC, about a mile from the coast. Pretty sure they are going to be hightailing it out of there, the problem is where do you go?
This thing is so big that they're not sure about which way to go, I told them high ground, maybe head up towards West Virginia. It's going to be a cluster anyway with everybody bailing from the coast, state
of emergency has already been declared. This is a little nerve wracking! I think they will be leaving sometime tomorrow or Wednesday morning.

My daughter has been through a CAT 5 typhoon when they were stationed in Okinawa, she rode that one out but not sticking around for this one!

centash · Sep 10, 2018

You guys be careful out there, and hopefully everything will be ok. Here in Canada,
we seldom get any effects from hurricanes, and even then it's not a big deal.
Thinking about you guys.....
Ben

bradley martin · Sep 10, 2018

Ben, you are forgetting about hurricane Hazel in 1954. That was before my time, but I heard my parents talk about it. Killed 81 in Toronto area and still considered the worst natural disaster to have struck Ontario in recorded history!

steve706 · Sep 10, 2018

Ya, no hurricanes, but tornadoes aren?t exactly fun either.

Jim in NC · Sep 10, 2018

If I was in their location I would head south. To me that would be best to get out of the storm's path. I live near Greensboro and it's eye may pass through the back yard.

Deutz Lover · Sep 10, 2018

List of interesting data:

1. This is the second year in a row where there are/were three active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin at the same time. Prior to this 2010 was the last time there were simultaneously three active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin.

2. Georgia normally has only one hurricane event about every 11 years.
2016 and 2017 we had two hurricanes 11 months apart. Matthew and Irma.

3. All three current hurricanes started at or below the lower border of Senegal although the origins were several hundred miles apart.

I cannot find the points of origins of Irma and Matthew, but I think they started a lot farther apart.

4. A map of hurricane tracks covering 175 years was shown tracing those that were within 200 miles of Florence's mid ocean position. Almost all turned North before they made landfall in the U.S. Three did not. One went west over the tip of Florida.
Two went west across the Porto Rico/Cuba area.

centash · Sep 10, 2018

You are right....but I don't remember either, I was only a few months old then!
Ben

Farmaller · Sep 10, 2018

I'm in central Va. and depending on track could get 20 inches of rain or more, strong winds, and oh yes, tornadoes. WV could get just as much rain if it stalls because of a front along the mountains. But that's worse case I think. It's not going to be good no matter what, ground is already totally saturated, and rivers, creeks are full.

Phil9N3667 · Sep 10, 2018

I'm in Southampton County,
Va, about 50 miles as the
crow flies from the Atlantic
Ocean and 20 miles north of
the N.C. state line. Calling
for 10"-15" of rain and a
lot of wind. Just hope
we don't lose power for an extended period of time, gas stations here already running out of gas on account of folks getting it for generators!! At work we have a hurricane plan, made sure today the propane tanks for our generator were full (80%) and just ran it last week. Hope for the best.

JWalker · Sep 10, 2018

I live about 30 miles west of Myrtle Beach. According to my parents and inlaws who lived through Hazel, she hit in North Carolina then came DOWN the coast and destroyed the Myrtle Beach area before heading north again.

I lived through Hugo and got to the water front in Murrells Inlet 3 days after land fall. This was 50 to 60 miles north of the eye land fall. You would not believe the destruction from that storm.

Oliver550Dave · Sep 10, 2018

Phil, are you near Corinth Friends? I remember stories of the flooding you folks had after Hurricane Floyd!

flying belgian · Sep 10, 2018

My brother lives in Leesburg, Va. How much danger is he in?

Deutz Lover · Sep 10, 2018

leesburg is about 340 feet above sea level.

It also inland about 40 miles northwest of Washington DC.
If Washington is okay then Leesburg should be okay. It really depends on if and where Florence makes landfall.

David Snipes · Sep 11, 2018

I guess we will have to bomb Senegal.

Logan in S.E. Texas · Sep 11, 2018

Lord have Mercy! I'm watching morning news
and Janet Dean just said that once inland
there is not going to be much to move
Florence on, much like Harvey. I saw houses
flooded that I never would have imagined!
Please, please y'all get out! You can
always rebuild but not if you don't live
through it. My heart is heavy for all in
the storms path. I will be praying for the
entire area.

flembo · Sep 11, 2018

I was 6 then and remember Hazel, we lived in Conn. and I remember seeing pine trees uprooted in the backyard.

BarnyardEngineering · Sep 11, 2018

So you're taking the hype from the "weather guessers" on the 24 hour news cycle seriously on this one?

Jegs · Sep 11, 2018

Yeah, thanks for that suggestion, I was thinking that too. I'll talk to them in a little bit, I'm sure they have a plan. They can get through this ... they're United States Marines!!

showcrop · Sep 11, 2018

(quoted from post at 04:36:42 09/11/18) So you're taking the hype from the "weather guessers" on the 24 hour news cycle seriously on this one?

Barnyard, people in the area and the pathway who don't take the forecasts seriously are the ones who then go and put the lives of police and firefighters in jeopardy. Not nice.

Jim in NC · Sep 11, 2018

A neighbor messenged me last night that he has an aunt and uncle coming up here from Florence, SC. They are both older folks and the uncle is on oxygen. Not knowing all the specifics of this but my advice to them would be the same. The difficulty becomes finding a place to stay. We are about 200 miles from Wilmington and Florence, and I have seen instances where such a large number of folks fleeing hurricanes have to travel for many hours to find a place to stay.

One cannot leave the path of a hurricane too early. Waiting till the last minute to see if the storm will miss you, and it appears not, will put one in traffic jams. Gas becomes scarce, and one is at the mercy of too many things that that is beyond control.

My SIL has kin near Atlantic, NC. They are very close to projected landfall, surrounded by water,4'above sea level, and thinking they can stay there. A 12' storm surge is predicted with more if it comes in at high tide. Some people are crazy.

wfw · Sep 11, 2018

at present our main house is in Carteret county, NC between Swansboro, NC and Morehead City NC. We are on the mainland. Our secondary home in in western
NC and that is where we are right now (about thirty miles west of Winston-Salem, NC). We came here to do some work having no idea this storm was coming
at the time we left. We are worried about our eastern home and western home also. All we can do right now is to wait it out. Please Pray everyone
effected by this storm.

BarnyardEngineering · Sep 11, 2018

(quoted from post at 05:45:48 09/11/18)

(quoted from post at 04:36:42 09/11/18) So you're taking the hype from the "weather guessers" on the 24 hour news cycle seriously on this one?

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Barnyard, people in the area and the pathway who don't take the forecasts seriously are the ones who then go and put the lives of police and firefighters in jeopardy. Not nice.

Not nice? Y'all are constantly mad at the weather guessers getting it wrong half the time.

If this makes a turn out to sea, or dissipates into nothing more than a severe rainstorm by the time it makes landfall, you're going to be screaming bloody murder at the weather guessers for making you run away from nothing, and the ones that stayed will say, "I told you so!"

showcrop · Sep 11, 2018

(quoted from post at 10:12:12 09/11/18)

(quoted from post at 05:45:48 09/11/18)

(quoted from post at 04:36:42 09/11/18) So you're taking the hype from the "weather guessers" on the 24 hour news cycle seriously on this one?

Click to expand...

Barnyard, people in the area and the pathway who don't take the forecasts seriously are the ones who then go and put the lives of police and firefighters in jeopardy. Not nice.

Click to expand...

Not nice? Y'all are constantly mad at the weather guessers getting it wrong half the time.

If this makes a turn out to sea, or dissipates into nothing more than a severe rainstorm by the time it makes landfall, you're going to be screaming bloody murder at the weather guessers for making you run away from nothing, and the ones that stayed will say, "I told you so!"

Now, Now, Barnyard go back and review weather threads, and you will see that I am not one of the herd who is constantly "mad at the weather guessers". In fact I post about how I have a lot of respect for the great job that they do. Once I pointed out how they were predicting the weather on the east coast when the approaching system was still over the Pacific!

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