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Sep 13, 2018, 01:08 PM
#1
Florence
*sigh*
Hurricanes are like being stalked by a confused, vicious, and pissed off turtle.
Jeannie
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Sep 13, 2018, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by
Jeannie
*sigh*
Hurricanes are like being stalked by a confused, vicious, and pissed off turtle.
Jeannie
Might be the best description I’ve ever seen of a hurricane. It’s so slow, like a turtle, that you see it coming but can’t do anything about it, and it ruthlessly batters everything in its path. I see it.
Best of luck to you, Jeannie, and to everyone else in its path. Get food that won’t spoil, charge your phones and use them sparingly, and for ****’s sake, stay inside and safe. When we got hit with Sandy years back, my friend invited me to his hurricane party in Delaware. They were going to drink Hurricanes (40oz malt liquor, if you're unfamiliar) in his back yard and do a slip’n’slide. I declined his invitation. Two of Delaware’s very few fatalities were partygoers—being so drunk after they left the party, they decided to go swimming in a stream that had swelled, the current was too strong for them, and they were found several days later. Of course, that’s only the dumbest thing you can do; another fatality was a young woman who was scared of the hurricane and tried to drive to her boyfriend’s, but the road she was on washed out. So, you know, stay safe, be smart.
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Sep 13, 2018, 02:17 PM
#3
By the time it leaves, it's expected to have unloaded
10 trillion gallons of rainfall in North Carolina
Wow, just wow
Mind you those are those weird american baby gallons
Stay safe Mrs Jeanie
This is Florence from above
https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex?ref_s...Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Last edited by Seriously; Sep 13, 2018 at 02:23 PM.
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Sep 13, 2018, 02:45 PM
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Stay safe to all of those in the path!
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Sep 13, 2018, 05:27 PM
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Thanks, all. At least the latest projection takes me out of a direct hit. Tuesday we were in the crosshairs.
I’m no stranger to these storms. I’ve lived in North Carolina for forty years and it’s the second most hit state behind Florida. I lived through Fran which was still
cat one when she passed over my house. Since I live 80 miles inland, that’s saying something.
Florence’s problem is her size and speed. We’ll get three months rainfall in one night.
Jeannie
Last edited by Jeannie; Sep 13, 2018 at 06:59 PM.
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Sep 13, 2018, 05:29 PM
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This is, I believe, the official National Hurricane Center chart:
Jeannie
Last edited by Jeannie; Sep 13, 2018 at 09:48 PM.
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Sep 13, 2018, 07:11 PM
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So for funsies while I await the turtle:
I believe this is from a 2005 evacuation in Houston Texas. But they all pretty much look the same.
So why do we evacuate when it’s this bad? Because In 1900 eight thousand people died on the Galveston Texas hurricane because they didn’t know it was coming so didn’t evacuate.
Here’s the current projected path. I am in Fayetteville.
Jeannie
Last edited by Jeannie; Sep 13, 2018 at 09:50 PM.
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Sep 13, 2018, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by
Jeannie
So for funsies while I await the turtle:
I believe this is from a 2005 evacuation in Houston Texas. But they all pretty much look the same.
Attachment 79274
So why do we evacuate when it’s this bad? Because In 1900 eight thousand people died on the Galveston Texas hurricane because they didn’t know it was coming so didn’t evacuate.
Here’s the current projected path. I am in Fayetteville.
Attachment 79275
Jeannie
Florence has whisked the attachments away Jeannie !
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Sep 13, 2018, 07:34 PM
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https://youtu.be/deG4NxkouGM
Frying Pan Tower is 34 miles off the NC coast.
The camera is approximately 80 feet above sea level.
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Sep 13, 2018, 08:12 PM
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Prayers . . . geez, we just had to deal with a few tropical storms so far this year, can't imagine something like that . . .