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Same here! It's a welcome change.

Yep, that was me from CA. But I spent the last 3 years in Philly. Even there I never saw this much rain all at once. I agree that it is just beautiful and COLD outside! Finally fall!

Wind is really picking up. Wish I had a kestrel. Guess we aren't out of the woods yet... pun intended. I live in the woods.

I do not! The lights were flickering for a few hours but power has stayed on. The winds stayed mostly to the south. Every county around mine was under tornado watch, but no major impacts except a ton of rain, lightning, and dead leaves all over the lawn. Still getting some gusts but I think the worst has passed. Fingers crossed. Still raining.

Holy sh**

4.5" of rain here in VA over the last 7 hours, forecast to go for another 3 hours. I just moved here a few months ago. I grew up in San Diego and this is the most rain I have ever seen in my life.

I'm kinda new here. How do you block someone so you can't see their moronic posts?

I see. I do not twitter.

I don't see two camps. I see many reasonable people with a troll in their midst.

Somebody made a serious typo here. There is no possible way are getting 2+ feet of rain. What's funny is they edited it in the last few hours, it was 71.5 cm, and forgot to move the decimal point.

Good. Let's have some actual banter with actual facts, shall we? My mom is visiting and I took her into town today so I wasn't able to watch this unfold as I would have liked. Lady working at an art gallery totally let me peek over her shoulder while she was looking at pictures of the damage. Looks pretty hellish in FL right now. I know there was some warning but it seems like this one snuck up on them... unlike Florence which we were watching for weeks. Lost of people didn't evacuate and the death toll is gonna climb over the next few days. Really need to stop rebuilding coastal communities.

Or flat.

You might want to keep it handy, unfortunately I don't think the truth teller is finished.

I hope someone is in there cleaning up the main thread. I don't mind that my comment got deleted. That sh** is truly unreadable.

I thought hickory was leaving this thread.

I just don't understand the rationale behind staying on a barrier island with this monster looming. They know what the barrier is for, right? What has to be said to convince them to get out of the way? The people who choose to stay put a price on their lives - the few hundred dollars it would have cost to evacuate.

My first thought is to call the airline for the ATL-Paris leg and see if they are possibly going to cancel that flight. The shift further south is concerning. I would not try to fly CLT-ATL on Saturday, driving Friday would be a safer bet, but the roads might be packed. I know Delta is offering rescheduling of flights out of CLT and Savannah but not ATL. I think that flight should be okay but they'll probably have to alter the route. Call your airline. Good luck!

Maybe each of you try calling and hamming up a really dramatic goodbye, as if you know you'll never see them again. Crying could only help your case. I know your situation. If my dad was there, he wouldn't leave either. Once, he stuck out a wildfire, standing on the roof with a garden hose as the yard burned around him. But you can't hose a hurricane. Can't do anything except get out of its way.

I'm not getting snake at all. More of a "furmaid." Also from genesis.

I see it!! And in the right blob, a dragon taking a selfie.

I dunno. We'll just have to wait and see. In any case, Flo sure looks funky here. Looks like she's spitting out baby hurricanes to make the wishcasts come true. "You, slam into NYC, and you... I need you to take out Miami."

I do believe you, but at the "highest point in the county," wouldn't frictional effects be lessened?

He's like 15 miles inland, max. This storm is 500 miles in diameter, give or take a shoe. It's going to be insanely windy there before it ever makes official landfall. Surge shouldn't be an issue at that elevation, but the winds... at the very least the power will be out and the water contaminated. I don't trust that the relief efforts will be fast or efficient. You can laugh at me after it's over, seriously, I would love to be wrong.