Thread: Hurricane Florence

I'm going to be mostly offline in the next few days while I get ready for this storm, tie everything down and decide whether to stay or go when they call for evacuation of our little sandbar. We've been here for 15 years and have some exciting days listening to wind and rain, thunder and lightning, but have only left one time in 2003 for Isabel. If it's a Cat 3 and not a direct hit we'll stay. Right now which is too far in the future to tell, it looks like landfall will be 100 miles south of us. Just in case you are a storm watcher, we're in Nags Head, about where I've put the point of the arrow.

Keep a light on; I'll be back!

Take care. We lived in Virginia Beach 1985 - 1989, Gloria was a Cat 4 in 85, and Hugo a Cat 5 in 89. We moved back to the West Coast.

To you and anyone else in the path of this hurricane, stay safe.

Bob

Yes, As Bob said. Be careful. Life is a lot more important than things. Hope all will be good in the end. Stay safe!

Originally Posted by Gasman

Yes, As Bob said. Be careful. Life is a lot more important than things. Hope all will be good in the end. Stay safe!

My wife doesn't let me forget that in the moment a tornado was close to the house when we were living in Indiana, I grabbed my SR collection and put it in the basement!
Now the lone lifeboat found in the middle of the pacific with a hoard of straight razors aboard begins to make sense: "Women, children, and straight razors first!"

We were camping at the KOA in Cape Hattarass when we had to be evacuated as a result of hurricane Arthur. The photos of the campground 24 hours later were frightening.

We wish you folks in the Outer Banks and coastal areas all the best. Be safe.

One thing that I was thinking about this morning is about how one should always prepare for the worst, though I admit it is easy to become somewhat dulled to what seems to often be sensational reporting by the news.
Even when the storm has degraded to a level 1 the news will still use words like catastrophic...
Guess one should prepare, but not freak out when the "for profit" news is trying to juice a situation.
Better safe than sorry while maintaining a clear head!

Originally Posted by MikeT

One thing that I was thinking about this morning is about how one should always prepare for the worst, though I admit it is easy to become somewhat dulled to what seems to often be sensational reporting by the news.
Even when the storm has degraded to a level 1 the news will still use words like catastrophic...
Guess one should prepare, but not freak out when the "for profit" news is trying to juice a situation.
Better safe than sorry while maintaining a clear head!

The longer one lives near the coast (.5 miles for us), the more one learns that. We keep our prep supplies and evac supplies in a single location, but once you've seen Jim Cantore on TV shouting Armageddon, and then see him in a bar that same day flirting with the locals, it's hard to take his warnings or reports seriously. I use the National Hurricane Center and alerts from my Coast Guard son, who has access to better weather info than I do.

Good luck, Harold-The North Carolina coast is beautiful and wild, but I guess there's a reason they call it "the graveyard of the Atlantic." I hope you come out unscathed.

Depending on the track, we're supposed to get some rain and wind here in Upstate SC. My son in Columbia, and especially my niece and her husband in Charleston, have had to dodge numerous storms and hurricanes in the past.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

Good luck, Harold-The North Carolina coast is beautiful and wild, but I guess there's a reason they call it "the graveyard of the Atlantic." I hope you come out unscathed.

Thanks for those wishes. We're locked down and packed up. We may leave Thursday morning, although we haven't since 2003. Hopefully, all in the path of the apparent "monster" storm will be safe.

I'm still thinking about what the best choice is, and want to wait for updated info.