yea the last runs are not good for anyone in Willy/Morehead.

9/12/2018 1:14:02 PM

I gotta watch out for Barijat and Mangkhut... winds of up to 60 mph expected Sunday!

9/12/2018 1:42:58 PM

While I'm feeling more confident about my choice of staying, today I'm feeling pretty emotional. Seeing all the Marinas empty and the pictures my friends are posting, it's just really starting to hit me that my town might not be the same for a very long time.

9/12/2018 1:44:16 PM

category 3 now wooohoo

9/12/2018 2:09:39 PM

Shewl!

I stole this.

This is how I've seen the Hurricane Florence drama play out on facebook.

Florence: I'm coming for you.
VA & SC: Please don't
NC: Bring it

Florence: The fuck did you say to me?
VA & SC: NC, dude shut the fuck up!
NC: Fuck that and fuck her windy ass. Punk ass bitch is only a CAT 3.

Florence: *powers up to CAT 4* still wanna talk shit!?
VA & SC: ... nope, we're good
NC: Not only am I going to CONTINUE to talk shit, we got Jim Cantore on his way and we are meme'ing the fuck out of you.

Florence: you have got to be kidding. Ok fine, I got something for you. *begins powering up to CAT 5*
VA & SC: ......
NC: that's cool, we already have facebook events planned such as welcoming parties, blowing all the fans at you, firing guns at you... we've cleared out ABC stores and are ready to get LIT. Bring it on turbo.

Florence: you... you guys are serious? You really aren't scared of me? But... but I.... I put so much effort into this.
VA & SC: *waiting anxiously*
NC: *chugs beer* get fucked

Florence: fine, I'll leave *shifts south*
VA: *sigh of relief*
SC: God damn it NC you are the worst big brother ever!
NC: time to man up bitch, that damn hurricane is mad.

[Edited on September 12, 2018 at 2:10 PM. Reason : ]

9/12/2018 2:10:11 PM

^ this is the exact conversation haha

Aint scared of no hurricane

9/12/2018 2:12:37 PM

lol, the latest euro model only has an inch of rain through saturday afternoon, there are going to be some salty football fans

9/12/2018 2:18:11 PM

Everyone from Morehead to Wilmington should be wary... hard to imagine a what this long of a stall will be like for them with the wind and rain. My parents and brother are leaving Morehead City / Newport, mostly for comfort and not wanting to get murdered at night by pine trees.

9/12/2018 2:27:05 PM

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"lol, the latest euro model only has an inch of rain through saturday afternoon, there are going to be some salty football fans"

got to be more.

9/12/2018 2:30:59 PM

ok so now wake county schools closed all day tomorrow instead of just early release

9/12/2018 2:31:17 PM

are we still expecting anything tomorrow? i thought late tomorrow evening was now the earliest chance of any kind of wind

9/12/2018 2:34:00 PM

I'm getting the impression that exact timing and impacts are still very up in the air depending on your area.

9/12/2018 2:42:18 PM

your roads will be fine

9/12/2018 2:43:11 PM

shifting north and making landfall. locally we should have rain and wind by tomorrow night

9/12/2018 2:55:52 PM

is that from the latest forecast or a model?

9/12/2018 3:04:35 PM

Latest forecast calls for full Raleigh Dome deployment with a light breeze from the south with cloudy skies.

You heard it here first.

9/12/2018 3:19:31 PM

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" Stay safe. Hopefully you're nowhere near the river, because all that water definitely won't be flowing away from you if/when the storm surge hits."

Yea, thanks for the well wishes, but I'm not on the Neuse. I'm on the outskirts, around the Trent river. I should be good.

Quote :

"are you not watching the forecast? it's supposed to be a major historic flooding event for that area"

We'll see. The hurricane at a cat4 was supposed to be historic as well, but has since dropped off. Without riding more in a northerly fashion, I cant see these rivers surging as high as any other hurricane we've had.

9/12/2018 3:21:21 PM

Soooooo. Just got a Robo-call from the city (Raleigh) basically telling me to GTFO (Brier Creek area).

9/12/2018 3:23:45 PM

Bahaha what!?

9/12/2018 3:26:55 PM

My main concern at this point is power disruptions in Wilmington having an effect on the grid in Raleigh... not sure how much failsafes there are there

9/12/2018 3:30:30 PM

Even if it shifts, we will see something

9/12/2018 3:39:09 PM

9/12/2018 3:39:38 PM

Quote :

"are we still expecting anything tomorrow? i thought late tomorrow evening was now the earliest chance of any kind of wind"

9/12/2018 3:51:08 PM

^thats storm force winds too, we will fill it before then

9/12/2018 3:55:50 PM

^,^^ the "most likely" graphic shows late tomorrow night though


[Edited on September 12, 2018 at 3:59 PM. Reason : not quite as late as i remembered ]

9/12/2018 3:59:08 PM

this is a big fucking storm, we cant skirt this one i dont think

9/12/2018 4:06:04 PM

Just took what could be my last hot shower for a while. I have plenty of wet wipes, clean undies, and deodorant. Hopefully I won't smell too bad!

9/12/2018 4:06:35 PM

God Speed. Keep us updated.

9/12/2018 4:12:36 PM

Quote :

"My main concern at this point is power disruptions in Wilmington having an effect on the grid in Raleigh... not sure how much failsafes there are there"

I work in a 630 MW generation facility in Wilmington. Can you explain your concern? What happens in Wilmington should not affect whether you have power in Raleigh.

9/12/2018 4:19:59 PM

I don't think you know about The Grid going down.

9/12/2018 4:26:05 PM

I just hope that NC States nuclear reactor doesn't go all Chernobyl on us b/c of this storm.

9/12/2018 4:35:15 PM

Yeah, don't be an idiot. Those plants are fine.

9/12/2018 4:45:01 PM

Your plants are fine

9/12/2018 4:52:25 PM

Quote :

"Soooooo. Just got a Robo-call from the city (Raleigh) basically telling me to GTFO (Brier Creek area)."

https://www.wral.com/raleigh-tells-thousands-of-people-to-seek-higher-ground/17837979/

Quote :

"City staff is using reverse-911 to contact about 26,000 residents who live near Crabtree and Walnut creeks and their tributaries and warn them of potential flooding during and after Florence, City Manager Ruffin Hall said."

9/12/2018 4:57:45 PM

Quote :

"My main concern at this point is power disruptions in Wilmington having an effect on the grid in Raleigh... not sure how much failsafes there are there"

What a moron

9/12/2018 5:37:42 PM

9/12/2018 5:40:18 PM

The Raleigh dome is a real thing man. Looks like we aren't going to get much worse than a glorified thunderstorm here

9/12/2018 5:41:21 PM

New forecast has it making a hard turn, Raleigh is no longer even in the cone

9/12/2018 5:51:13 PM

Aren't they still talking about 9-13ft storm surge in Craven-Carteret and such?

9/12/2018 5:55:52 PM

Still going to be a lot of rain.

For days on end.

9/12/2018 5:57:17 PM

Latest forecast, Raleigh right on the edge:

9/12/2018 6:43:53 PM

Things look pretty good for the Triangle area, and that's great. But folks still gotta be careful on the roads out there.

Hopefully, this scare will actually start getting us ready for the next one? Forecasting is a lot better, but nothing's changed otherwise...we're just way more open to not having power or water for 5-10 days...

9/12/2018 6:53:08 PM

^^i don’t get how that’s nothing, looks pretty precarious to me

9/12/2018 7:12:15 PM

who said nothing?

9/12/2018 7:19:17 PM

^^^ I don't know, the more a storm is overhyped for an area and people go out of their way to prepare, I feel like people will ignore the next warnings

9/12/2018 7:22:14 PM

if everyone keeps all the water, propane and batteries they rushed out to get they should be in good shape for winter storms

9/12/2018 7:24:41 PM

Work already announced that we're closing early tomorrow and we have Friday off. I normally don't drink much, but I have three bottles of wine that I plan on killing this weekend. Plus some liquor if the wine runs out

9/12/2018 8:20:50 PM

^ ignoring the fact that shit is going to hit the fan for a lot of people, what you just described sounds amazing.

9/12/2018 8:28:29 PM

Would appear initial eyefall has drifted north.

Seems to clip Wilmington beaches, even topsail.

Going to be interesting to see if it strengthens anymore at all or just simply grows larger.


Also very interested to see if it drifts any more North for landfall, that will be how much Raleigh feels the effects.

9/12/2018 9:59:45 PM

Quote :

"Riding it out in the New Bern area. I'm expecting a similar experience that we saw in Bertha or Fran (in MY area, in terms of destruction and rainfall), not so much the Hazel that was suggested. I just don't see this being historical in any category. We shall see."

Where in New Bern are you at? I'm from halfway between New Bern and Havelock near Flanners Beach.

Downtown New Bern looks like the storm surge will hammer it. They just did a detailed analysis on New Bern storm surge on the Weather Channel. Not too good looking for Pamlico County either.

9/12/2018 10:03:33 PM