Hurricane Season has Arrived

[lo n slo]

9 hours ago, Sam said:

4:30 AM Tuesday September 18, 2018

36 customers are still without power in my neighborhood by Boshers Dam on the Historic James River.

 

A tornado went over our house and knocked down trees on Cherokee Road, one of the four ways in and out of our area.

 

We lost a tree in the woods behind our house.

 

Our generator has been on since 4 PM Monday afternoon.

 

Our son had a terribled time trying to get to our house to pick up his puppy with many streets closed by fallen trees and debris.

 

Buggs Island is closed to camping and fishing as it is expexcted to go to 19-feet above normal pool this week and our bass club has a tournament on Buggs this weekend.

 

Plus the NASCAR races on Friday and Saturday add to the confusion. We have to be ready to vector around any closed roads in or out of my neighborhood this morning.

 

And we thought we dodged a bullet when the remnants of Florence came around and clobbered us.

 

Hope all getting this post are safe.

i saw footage of a tornado in Midlothian yesterday. that was a nasty line of storms in that hurricane tentacle. hopefully they’ll get your power back up soon. keep us posted when you can. ?

[lo n slo]

if you have a few minutes, here is a good article by CBS NEWS on the state of post Florence flooding

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/hurricane-florence-aftermath-weather-flooding-power-outage-death-toll-fema-latest-forecast-live/

[Sam]

If this is true, we need to start another thread.

 

Chris Justus, MeteorologistLike Page

14 hrs ·

RETURN OF FLORENCE: The remnants of Florence remain very disorganized and non tropical. However, it is moving into more favorable conditions. Steering currents ...do have it heading back toward the East Coast. It now has a 20% chance of turning tropical by early next week. As of now, I do NOT expect anything strong. I'll keep a close eye on it. It seems that if it does become tropical again, its name would change to Kirk. That is because it has lost many of its "Florence" characteristics. Like my page for updates: Chris Justus, Meteorologist

[Darren.]

1 hour ago, Sam said:

If this is true, we need to start another thread.

 

Chris Justus, MeteorologistLike Page

14 hrs ·

RETURN OF FLORENCE: The remnants of Florence remain very disorganized and non tropical. However, it is moving into more favorable conditions. Steering currents ...do have it heading back toward the East Coast. It now has a 20% chance of turning tropical by early next week. As of now, I do NOT expect anything strong. I'll keep a close eye on it. It seems that if it does become tropical again, its name would change to Kirk. That is because it has lost many of its "Florence" characteristics. Like my page for updates: Chris Justus, Meteorologist

Didn't realize those were Flo's remains. I saw that on NOAA's site last night, 

here's this AM's map.

 

 

[lo n slo]

yikes, we dont need that. hopefully it will be picked up by an approaching cold front and ushered back out to sea. some rivers in the low country of both, NC and SC have yet to crest, and all time flood levels have already been set on some of them. thousands of hogs and hundreds of thousands chickens perished, along with breached hog waste retention lagoons, waste water treatment facilities, and some coal ash ponds. many roads and bridges have been washed out and will remain impassable for some time. sections of I 40 and I 95 are impassable as well. 

[Sam]

6 hours ago, lo n slo said:

yikes, we dont need that. hopefully it will be picked up by an approaching cold front and ushered back out to sea. some rivers in the low country of both, NC and SC have yet to crest, and all time flood levels have already been set on some of them. thousands of hogs and hundreds of thousands chickens perished, along with breached hog waste retention lagoons, waste water treatment facilities, and some coal ash ponds. many roads and bridges have been washed out and will remain impassable for some time. sections of I 40 and I 95 are impassable as well. 

Did not know the Interstates were impacted. Saw where the water had washed out a number of roads. And yes, the rivers are supposed to crest Saturday and Sunday.

 

Be safe.

[lo n slo]

14 hours ago, Sam said:

Did not know the Interstates were impacted. Saw where the water had washed out a number of roads. And yes, the rivers are supposed to crest Saturday and Sunday.

 

Be safe.

thanks Sam. we got by relatively unscathed in our neck of the woods, with only 5” of rain, but those poor folks down east got upwards to 2-3’ of it. we did not get the tornadoes like y’all did though. did you have any property damage?

[Sam]

20 hours ago, lo n slo said:

thanks Sam. we got by relatively unscathed in our neck of the woods, with only 5” of rain, but those poor folks down east got upwards to 2-3’ of it. we did not get the tornadoes like y’all did though. did you have any property damage?

No. We were fortunate.

 

Only lost that tree back in the woods.

 

Hopefully no more hurricanes this year.

[TOXIC]

Isn't Kirk moving in next?  Thought I saw that it was on it's way to Florida.  

[Sam]

So far, so good.

 

We have to watch the new ones coming off Africa's coast.

 

I think Kirk is not going to be a threat to the US.

[N Florida Mike]

I finally heard from my cousin near Wrightsville beach where the eye of Hurricane florence passed right over her house. They were  without power for 8 days. A tree came down on their house, which didnt destroy it but caused severe roof and then indoor damage from all the rain. She said a tornado went down their road as well, but her house is well above sea level so there was no flooding.

But her and another cousin who lives in the wilmington area are ok so thats the main thing.I havent got ahold of  another set of cousins out in brunswick county but no news is probably good news.