Anybody else in the path of travel? What’s everyone’s thoughts?
I’m in WPa, so we always get branches of extended periods of heavy rain from them.
Some good rains make for a nice fall shroom hunting season. Last year was a little thin, so I’m looking forward to a good one this year.
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I’ve lived in NC my entire life, hurricanes are definitely not terribly concerning for me, usually. But as of today every single model of this hurricane shows a direct impact to my city at a minimum of 140mph sustained winds, and stalling for several days. First time I’ve been worried. It’s about to be wild.
Maybe time for a vacation out west for a week or two.
They’re talking about it affecting Long Island (NY) around Thursday night, so we’re keeping an eye to see if/when it takes a turn.
We’ve got the usual supplies on hand in the hurricane bag. I’ll probably go out tomorrow and fill up an extra 5-gallon container with gas to have on hand. Lesson learned from Hurricane Sandy, I don’t want to deal with gas lines and the high drama they bring.
We covered “bug-out bags” in this thread a while back in the Combat forum. Not a bad idea to give it a quick read and see what you might want to implement.
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going out west you say?
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If only we could reallocate some of that rain from the areas that have more than their fair share.
@anon71262119 that last picture looks like an artist’s depiction of a literal ‘highway to hell’. Crazy.
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@ Reallocation. For sure, Gainz.
That last picture was in December, and that’s the 405 Freeway with traffic going through Santa Monica, just north of LA.
Hurricanes are spooky, but not nearly as bad as a wall of fire.
However, recent conditions have urged me to relocate for the following days. If anything exciting happens, I’ll post pics. A cat 4/5 is a rare sight, even over here on the east. Should be quite the ride.
This was about a quarter mile from my house in June. The Volkswagen ended up lodged under the bridge at the bottom of my street.
I live about 100 vertical ft. above the flood plain.
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yes, yes we do~
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Bump.
Just heard from some friends in the Richmond, VA area that evacuated to err on the side of caution.
Stay safe, y’all.
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Good new for my area is its crashed to a Cat 2.
Bad news being it shifted for a direct impact, with the eye wall grinding up against my city.
The winds will be fine, however its moving slower now, so flooding is more of an issue than it already was.
Was that the same storm where someone in Bridgeville died?
This morning, I still had some standing water in my yard from the weekend rains. If we get a bunch more you can bring some fish over and we can stock the front yard as a fish pond.
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It’s due to pull into a Rest Area near me and spend a few days come Sun\Mon.
It was. My wife was having a hell of a time getting home. She kept having to backtrack between bridgeville and here because all of the valleys were flooding and roads washing out.
We can go out to the lake and get some bluegill. They’re very resilient and fun to catch!
Wind isn’t really the story as much as the trillion cubic meters of water that comes with that wind where it hits.
As of now, it looks like we’re just getting some rain on Mon/Tues (western MD).
Normally I’m in the same boat, but it was originally planning to hit my city with 140mph sustained winds, which… well… that’s basically a roided tornado. We would be flattened.
I’m super glad it calmed the hell down, but I’m pissed I flipped all breakers when I left, while fridge of bad food for a Cat 2. What a waste.