Hurricane Florence

Open call to Carolina CCFers. This storm is no joke. If you see Jim Cantore, run for your life.

If anyone needs to GTF out you are welcome here. I have room for your boat and a fenced yard for dogs.
John
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I was given help when Irma landed on my doorstep and this bitch is just as bad.

We are seeing shortages of Gas, Beer, Bread and Milk. Thank goodness, I do not need bread and milk.

Adding to what I started on the BadinFest thread, but not wanting to take that thread too far off course. Winds shouldnt be bad as far inland as Greg and I are, I'm about 120 miles inland, Greg a little more. But as we learned two years ago, its the flooding that can be the greater concern. This affects me on two fronts. 1 - I live on a small neighborhood, HOA controlled lake. We have 6 dams in our neighborhood. Didnt think much of it until Matthew resulted in spillway damage on another neighborhood lake about an hour from me. The spillway was undermined, but the dam wall was OK. But the state determined the dam was no longer secure and artificially breached the dam and drained the lake. You can understand what that did to property values. The site developer/dam owner is kind of absentee at this point and the "waterfront" owners have no recourse.



2 - I do environmental/engineering consulting. One of our biggest clients is Duke Energy. They have dozens of dams, some coal ash basin, some cooling pond, some major lakes. They are in super crazy readiness mode now. During same storm mentioned above, one of their cooling pond dams breached. Its about a 500 acre lake. The lake was small enough and the general area already flooded enough that there were no serious downstream impacts, but it certainly got Dukes attention. They have already issued us a significant work order for response actions related to Florence, should the need arise.

Riley wrote: What's your plan?

Riley wrote: 120 miles doesn't seem like much distance given the size of the storm. What's your plan?

Mine is slightly different from Larry's. Think I will replace the cheese ball container and get ready to refresh the tanks for the Badin Mini

Gary S wrote: Not to deminish this storm Bruce but we were 50 miles from where Irma came ashore, the only thing we had happen was my rotten post fence fell over. We were very fortunate. Hope everything goes as well for you guys

Tough Guy Gary says ....... "takes more than a hurricane........."

Actually, I think you midwesterners have had more river flooding over the summer and past years than we've had. Every emergency is a local one........ here neighbors are raising boats in lifts for out of towners, folks are behaving well together and looking out for one another. It's not like Facebook at all!

The local weatherman up here, Adam Epstein, suggested that Mainers call their friends and family in NC to make sure they knew there was a hurricane coming and find out if they had a plan. That's just the kind of plan he needs to receive.

How far is White Lake from the coast? That area is flat. I hope it does not get destroyed.

Riley wrote: The local weatherman up here, Adam Epstein, ...

Not Biff Buffington?

Bruce,
Per google maps, it's 40 miles from the coast. Not much between them!!

Gary S wrote: Maybe the river will open in time to put the boat away

Good luck Gary. Once it opens, the river will be so full of PWC's, tubers and surfers, you won't be able to get the boat off the lift!!

The Waffle House at Morehead City just closed. Waffle Houses NEVER CLOSE, this is indication of how hard this storm will be on the Carolina Coast.

How's it looking down there Greg?

Donald - Hugo hit Charlotte at night on my 21st birthday. I showed up to work at Holiday Harbor Marina the next day hung over only to find the marina was gone. I spent the next 6 months living on a houseboat at the gas dock and rebuilding the docks. It was a total surprise to me and I think everyone else,

I was supposed to drive down to Davidson today for my grandma's 95th birthday but decided it wasn't too smart. If I remember correctly, Hugo was still Category 3 when it hit Charlotte, and for a while it looked like Florence might do the same thing, It appears now that may not happen, and I hope for everyone's sake it doesn't. Still, all those folks by the coast and in the flats of NC and SC are going to be hit very hard.

Good luck everyone.

That's a calm day on Green Lake