A list of power companies in NC who have power outages. For the folks here waiting to hear from family and friends....
I may be able to find out more than this through my sister if anyone wants and she is able to answer my texts. You can PM me if you don't want too much info out there but a general area is really all thats needed. As of a few minutes ago, I heard from her. Wilmington is underwater and no power, I believe power has been out since 4am in that area, even before things got very bad.
Power has been out since 3 AM. Conserving phone battery and just exchanged a couple texts messages to include updated weather forecasts.
According to the NWS hurricane/tropical storm conditions expected through the night.
The eye has been moving at a snails pace in a south westerly directions. The winds where my daughter is have been increasing. Most likely due to the eye moving closer as it inches away from Wilmington.
My trusty weather guy on FB (firsthand weather) just posted and said she has pretty much stalled, moving 3mph (and he's not quite convinced on that speed either) west southwest, and said this is a catastrophic event unfolding right now because of her stalling.
I doubt if you're old enough to remember Hurricane Agnes (1972), but she came up the Susquehanna River Valley and stalled. It rained for a solid week in North Central PA and the creek across from the barn almost washed out the bridge between the house and the barn.
If Florence has "stopped" she sounds like Agnes. That's really bad for people in those hilly areas. Stay safe!
I'm very worried for my sister inland, my Aunt in Elizabeth city, and all our members family members. I'm trying to do my best to find out what I can through my sister.
Ok, NC, SC, and VA peeps, can y'all check in please? We may not agree on political topics, but please check in, let us all know y'all are safe and good! We can resume to being assholes to each other tomorrow .......
I have cousins in coastal NC who are checking in on Facebook, so all seems ok there. Another cousin in Virginia Beach said they're just getting some light rain alternating with sun, so I'm guessing they're fine, too.
To all in the storm's path, my prayers are with you and your loved ones. Stay safe and stay alert.
Thanx
Looks like the longer term path will shift north and east a little sooner than mentioned this morning.
Just checked in on the cam and I got to say I feel for these people. Sandy devastated Long Island. I know how this feels.
hope all is well
A list of power companies in NC who have power outages. For the folks here waiting to hear from family and friends....
I may be able to find out more than this through my sister if anyone wants and she is able to answer my texts. You can PM me if you don't want too much info out there but a general area is really all thats needed. As of a few minutes ago, I heard from her. Wilmington is underwater and no power, I believe power has been out since 4am in that area, even before things got very bad.
Great, I will follow up on that and thank you again for your help.
No problem! Anytime
Please report back when you hear from your daughter
You can refresh the page and click on the area you want to know about. I think you knew that though LOL
Will do.
Update;
Power has been out since 3 AM. Conserving phone battery and just exchanged a couple texts messages to include updated weather forecasts.
According to the NWS hurricane/tropical storm conditions expected through the night.
The eye has been moving at a snails pace in a south westerly directions. The winds where my daughter is have been increasing. Most likely due to the eye moving closer as it inches away from Wilmington.
"That's the way it is"
Back home and power is back after running on a generator for part of yesterday and today.
My trusty weather guy on FB (firsthand weather) just posted and said she has pretty much stalled, moving 3mph (and he's not quite convinced on that speed either) west southwest, and said this is a catastrophic event unfolding right now because of her stalling.
I doubt if you're old enough to remember Hurricane Agnes (1972), but she came up the Susquehanna River Valley and stalled. It rained for a solid week in North Central PA and the creek across from the barn almost washed out the bridge between the house and the barn.
If Florence has "stopped" she sounds like Agnes. That's really bad for people in those hilly areas. Stay safe!
I am not, but my parents were around. They had a cabin in ctrl PA
I'm very worried for my sister inland, my Aunt in Elizabeth city, and all our members family members. I'm trying to do my best to find out what I can through my sister.
Another one of those damn hurricanes my Dad had to climb trees in to keep power going to "important" 24/7 offices.
I'm trying to figure out what was important in 1972 that had to be kept going for 24 hours. But I was only 10
Best thoughts for them.
Biomedical research and testing at NIH. Some labs never closed.
I hope they will be all right
Both are fine! Thank you
Stalled is bad news. Hope it is not like 1969 Nelson Co, VA flood when Hurricane Camille stalled
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_County,_Virginia>
Sure is. Not good at all.
People, Hickory, and Boone , half the town is out of power due to a fallen tree. Reported by my sister
Ok, NC, SC, and VA peeps, can y'all check in please? We may not agree on political topics, but please check in, let us all know y'all are safe and good! We can resume to being assholes to each other tomorrow .......
I gave a south NC update further up.
I hung up my assholeism holsters some time ago. Plan to keep them there.
I have cousins in coastal NC who are checking in on Facebook, so all seems ok there. Another cousin in Virginia Beach said they're just getting some light rain alternating with sun, so I'm guessing they're fine, too.
Flag was good yesterday, now looks ripped to pieces again?
wth?
I think it's now no longer showing live video as a default. It's showing highlights.
The storm is back out to sea, though cloud cover and precipitation persists.
An interesting phenomena was visible early on in the satellite images. A sand storm over North Africa began sending a could of sand over the Atlantic.
The sand storm continues and now that sand cloud half way across the Atlantic.
I have often read of this relative to archeological and geologic findings. This is the first time I can see it happening. Pretty cool.