Anyone from coastal NC,SC, GA area?
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My sister and one of her sons lives there, they are leaving town tomorrow.
Smart folks. Must run in the family. This one is picking up power quickly.
Fentoine Lum
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Quicker than a freak out over a shoe ad?
This is a serious situation here. Try to stay on topic.
They just retired there from Vermont. We are having a reunion of my siblings in our hometown, they were heading to KS, anyway, but just moved it up a couple of days. Her son isn’t sure where they will go to ride it out, but they have family in Virginia and may go there.
Thanks
Fentoine Lum
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You should see how serious some of these snowflakes are over this ad.
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win
We are right in the path
Please be safe.
Irish Exit
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The problem is going to be further inland. Our forecast for this weekend varies between 7 inches of rain and 27 inches of rain Saturday/Sunday depending on where this monster decides to stall.
Be safe.
Cat 4 is nothing to fuck around with Guno. I may not like your politics however you are still a fellow man. Are you leaving?
Irish Exit
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Not much we can really do except ride it out. I probably have a book around here I haven't read that will last through the potential hideous power outages.
That is certain flooding. You prepared?
Irish Exit
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I am prepared for 7 inches of rain. No way to prepare for 27 inches of rain.
Very true. You seem like a level headed person. You will know whether to go someplace and come back after.
Fentoine Lum
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Cap'n Crunch here once had to help a date prepare for 3 inches.
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Note my apathy
Be like one of those reporters who go out into the hurricane while telling other people not to do what they are doing.
Irish Exit
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I live on one of the highest ridge lines in my area, sort of. The best way to describe it is living in the crater of a volcano with one side blown off. There is plenty of high ground to get to if need be in a matter of 30 seconds. My only real danger is surface water coming down hill. If the storm ditches over flow, it ends up in my yard as does happen a few times a year. Once in my yard it parallels my house down to the other end of the ditch where it is wide enough to take a river of water The real question is whether overtopping water from ditches will be enough at once to overcome the slope away from my foundation to reach it. When we had 8 inches last year off a hurricane, the ditches did fine as it was over a period of hours. We've had 12 inches over a period of time with only minor over topping. I have no idea what 27 inches would look like but my insurance renewed Sept 1
