re: Hurricane Florence - Catastrophic Flooding Potential

New Euro brings this in near the SC/ Georgia border.
96 hours
120 hours

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slyon89

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Hey man, good luck in the coming weeks. For now, keep up with his thread and the related LINK ] Hurricane Florence - Information and Resources. Maybe ask your question during the day when more posters are up.

Find a hurricane checklist and see if you’re ready.

If you are staying, do you have enough food and water for a week or two? Are your cars fully gassed? Do you have a place lined up in case you’re heading south or west? Have you secured or put away everything outdoors? Taken pics of your stuff and emailed to yourself? Do you have cash including small bills? Are you prepared if the electricity goes out for a few weeks?

You may need none of the above but you’ll use it all eventually.

Nothing becomes an emergency if you’re knowledgeable, supplied, prepared and take action when you should.

You’ll have to assess your individual situation and make your own adult decision.

This is one angry bitch

Spot on. Looks to be the same area hammered by Matthew. Small towns like Nichols probably won’t ever rebuild if it happens again.

Charleston and Beaufort area could be hit hard by this one

Should people in Highlands leave or are they far enough inland?

Slyon,
Like the other poster said, Definitely make sure your cars are filled with gas and you have an exit strategy if you stay.
I would recommend getting a couple extra batteries for your cell phone as well, since power could be out for a week. Also, fill up all your bathtubs with water and bottle as much as you can even if it’s in Tupperware. This will be your drinkable water for the foresable future. Also, freeze a cup of water and then place a penny on top in your freezer. When everything is all done, throw everything out of the penny is at the bottom and most stuff if it’s halfway down the glass. Lastly, take any of your small keepsakes (picture books, sentimental papers, etc and put them in your dishwasher. Dishwasher is waterproof and attached to cabinets, you can put stuff in the washing machine the same.

I would gtfo of there if I were you, no point in staying. Not like anything will be open or around and days without power would suck while your house floods.

Problem is that it gets close as a strong storm and then buzz saws the area as it moves south. Though it does weaken, it weakens at the expense of the coastal areas.

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Jim Cantore

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He always manages to miss the bad stuff these days. Pulling rank?

APF is a solid 8.5 in Columbia this morning.