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Hurricane Florence to possibly hit North/South Carolina

Travis

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It is looking like Hurricane Florence is not going to swing north and might run right into the Carolinas while at category 4 strength. Reminds me eerily of Hurricane Hugo which is a pretty vivid memory from my youth.


Any forumers live in the possible path?
 
I suggest a quick GoFund to buy a nice beach property at the site of the landfall, and gift it to Trump, personally.
That should get FEMA mobilized in time and sufficient force.
 
My plan

I am from Wilmington. If Jim Cantore comes to town, I will kidnap him and take him to Norfolk, VA. That should change the path of the storm.
 
Chris_Halkides said:
I am from Wilmington. If Jim Cantore comes to town, I will kidnap him and take him to Norfolk, VA. That should change the path of the storm.
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Much of Norfolk is barely above sea level. I can only imagine the disaster if it got hit square on by a category 4.


With several days warning I do hope everyone does prudently evacuate. If Hugo is anything to go by it will be beyond devastating when it does come ashore.
 
South of the Border

Jim Cantore has a habit of showing up in places where inclement weather is about to strike, and I have heard a rumor that he is here. Perhaps I should have said that I would transport him to someplace that I can almost wish would be destroyed, like South of the Border.
 
I have a feeling this will test the Trump FEMA response in a way that neither Harvey or Irma did not. They've already had a disaster of a response to Maria but since that was in Puerto Rico a lot of people have ignored it. This would be in Trump country.
 
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I have a feeling this will test the Trump FEMA response in a way that neither Harvey or Irma did not. They've already had a disaster of a response to Maria but since that was in Puerto Rico a lot of people have ignored it. This would be in Trump country.
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Did Harvey and/or Irma not get enough disaster relief?
 
National Hurricane Centre update:

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

Hurricane Florence
...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...
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Of course, all sorts of things can happen: it can change course, slow down, speed up.

Anyway, I am sure the regions affected won't be ignored as much as Puerto Rico was, or New Orleans with Katrina.
 
Flo is at Cat 4 now. My prediction is that she will become a Cat 5 and then back to Cat 4 just before landfall.
 
Travis said:
I have a feeling this will test the Trump FEMA response in a way that neither Harvey or Irma did not. They've already had a disaster of a response to Maria but since that was in Puerto Rico a lot of people have ignored it. This would be in Trump country.
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This one's targeting English-speaking white people.

Skeptic Ginger said:
Did Harvey and/or Irma not get enough disaster relief?
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I think Travis is saying this is a bigger storm than those.
 
Trebuchet said:
This one's targeting English-speaking white people.



I think Travis is saying this is a bigger storm than those.
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Yeah. I think the devastation from this will eclipse those other two storms. The outer bank islands might be wiped clean.
 
One, possible issue is that the area it is most likely to make landfall (Northern South Carolina up to middle North Carolina) has had a pretty big population boom since Hurricane Hugo in 1989, which was the last major (Cat 3 or above) hurricane to make a direct hit north of Georgia.
 
A Tale of Two Floyds

IIRC Floyd in 1999 was on the borderline of Cat 2 and Cat 3. Unlike Mayberry's Floyd, Hurricane Floyd was no fun.
 
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Floyd make a glancing blow, not a direct hit. Hurricanes tend to "bounce off" the coast that far North.

Other than his power the reason Hugo was such a beast was he decided he wanted to see what the inland. He wasn't degraded to a tropical storm until he was hundreds of miles inland.
 
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