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Hurricane Florence

LucyPurrs said:
I LOVE maps too Judge, probably because I've always wanted to explore the world.
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Speaking of which, they just posted a map reflecting a three-day projection that appears to put Raleigh completely into the clear. Sounds good...:)

Well, you've certainly traveled all over to earn that interest in maps!

Me? I minored in geography. ;)
 
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Oh thanks for that info Judge!!! I hadn't seen that and that's very good news.

And re traveling- hope that after my second hip replacement in 3 months I'll become a traveler again :D!!!!!
 
LucyPurrs said:
Oh thanks for that info Judge!!! I hadn't seen that and that's very good news.

And re traveling- hope that after my second hip replacement in 3 months I'll become a traveler again :D!!!!!
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Well, have guarded optimism. You never know about how predictable a storm like this can be. Never the less it does seem to be making a distinct "dip" towards South Carolina, and away from the Raleigh area. At least when the hurricane drops to a cat 1 status.

They're already beginning to focus on the impact on Charleston, South Carolina. Though it still appears that western part of your state will get hit as well in a circular motion that may well go through most of eastern Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio as well. Such a big storm that's covering a whole lot of ground.
 
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used to live in wrightsville beach, opposite wilmington nc, been through a few hurricanes, it's scary, hope no one gets hurt
 
Aeolienne said:
On a lighter note, NOAA's choice of girls' names for this year's tropical storms sound like they've been lifted from an Enid Blyton boarding-school story: Florence, Helene, Joyce, Olivia...
National Hurricane Center latest
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Apologies, I've got the Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific lists mixed up. Olivia is from the latter. The O of the Atlantic list (if there is one) will be Oscar. Mind you, that still sounds quite posh. I could imagine Florence and Oscar on the guest list for Mustique, eh what?!
Tropical Cyclone names

And for those who ask "Didn't tropical storms all use to have girls' names?" this may be of interest: Gender bias may make female hurricanes deadlier
 
I don't think I've ever seen a storm of this scale that is moving so consistently slow. I suppose that's what continues to make this one unique in the eyes of so many meteorologists.
 
Well, worst thing that occurred to us during this storm was that our wired in smoke detectors went crazy shrieking repeatedly for 4 hours after our power went out yesterday before they finally stopped. The worst offender is so high up we can't even reach it with our high ladder- must be about 13-14 feet high. Then of course today when our power was restored, they started up again. Now they're chirping and we can't get them to stop. They had 10 year batteries in them too but made no difference. I hate those things- they always go crazy at night when we can't get any help to shut them up. Other wise we had relatively minor amounts of rain and wind and no damage at all. Hope the rest of you fared well. The storm is crawling a long at 2 miles per hour and will continue to dump rain over parts of the state for another day or so.
 
LucyPurrs said:
Well, worst thing that occurred to us during this storm was that our wired in smoke detectors went crazy shrieking repeatedly for 4 hours after our power went out yesterday before they finally stopped. The worst offender is so high up we can't even reach it with our high ladder- must be about 13-14 feet high. Then of course today when our power was restored, they started up again. Now they're chirping and we can't get them to stop. They had 10 year batteries in them too but made no difference. I hate those things- they always go crazy at night when we can't get any help to shut them up. Other wise we had relatively minor amounts of rain and wind and no damage at all. Hope the rest of you fared well. The storm is crawling a long at 2 miles per hour and will continue to dump rain over parts of the state for another day or so.
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Glad to see you got through it relatively unscathed. :)

Yes, hard-wired smoke detectors can be such a pain! :eek:

I must say, the meteorologists really did predict the storm track quite accurately. Strange storm, I suppose mostly given it's slow velocity. Still it's tragic that some 10 to 15 people in two states have lost their lives over this storm. And of course eventually insurers will begin to assess the horrendous property damage.
 
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My daughter is in Charlotte and she keeps updating me with pictures and videos. They are just now really starting to get hit with the rain and her yard and driveway already looks like a pool and it's coming into the garage, even though they tried to baracade.
 
The good news is that the storm's velocity is twice that of what it has been up to now. The bad news is that we're still talking about a slow, ten mile an hour storm. At least the overall wind is down to 35 mph...but there's no telling how much rain may continue to fall.

I don't think I've ever heard of a storm with these kind of dynamics that could sustain damage over a broad area for such a prolonged period of time. To think after so many days that the center of the storm is near Columbia South Carolina. Not much travel at all.

Makes me wonder just how long it may take before it loops upward towards Tennessee and continues to just burn out. Duke Energy reps on the Weather Channel didn't sound very optimistic about getting the power back on in North Carolina. "Days to weeks".

They did briefly show some residential streets of Charlotte. Looked like they were covered with maybe four to six inches of water. No way of telling what part of town that involved though.
 
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The good news is that the storm's velocity is twice that of what it has been up to now. The bad news is that we're still talking about a slow, ten mile an hour storm. At least the overall wind is down to 35 mph...but there's no telling how much rain may continue to fall.

I don't think I've ever heard of a storm with these kind of dynamics that could sustain damage over a broad area for such a prolonged period of time. To think after so many days that the center of the storm is near Columbia South Carolina. Not much travel at all.

Makes me wonder just how long it may take before it loops upward towards Tennessee and continues to just burn out. Duke Energy reps on the Weather Channel didn't sound very optimistic about getting the power back on in North Carolina. "Days to weeks".

They did briefly show some residential streets of Charlotte. Looked like they were covered with maybe four to six inches of water. No way of telling what part of town that involved though.
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I couldn't find that. My daughter said this road in her neighborhood was on there. that would be southeast area around Charlotte.
 
Pats said:
I couldn't find that. My daughter said this road in her neighborhood was on there. that would be southeast area around Charlotte.
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Yikes...they just showed that video footage very briefly about five minutes ago. But yes, it sounds somewhat consistently with what you described. And it appears that much more rain is still coming. One to two inches specifically for Charlotte.

I'll post again if I see some more video footage from Charlotte.

They're showing video from Lumberton, which looks about 80 miles to the southeast of Charlotte. Looked like everywhere in any direction was about eight inches under water. I suppose the real question is whether Charlotte is truly in the storm's path relative to Lumberton which is experiencing mandatory evacuations. No way to tell yet. Though the three-hour radar projection shows a whole lot of 2 to 4 inch rain coming in Charlotte's direction. That's a big pattern too.

But as I said, there's no way to really tell how that impacts one area from another even within such a big weather pattern.
 
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Flash flooding emergencies/warnings are now ongoing for Charlotte and outlying county areas. Citing sources claiming they've never seen water levels this high. No video, just verbal advisories from the Weather Channel.

New video of Charlotte being shown...residential scenes. Water level not high at all...maybe ankle-deep at the most. Commentator said "southeast part of town". Much more rain to follow though.
 
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Nothing going on here anymore. @Pats hope your daughter stays safe and her house doesn't flood!
Lumberton is in NC just over the border from SC. It's south of where the hurricane landed in NC but was in the path as the hurricane went towards SC.
 
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