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32 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

Thick frost everywhere this morning. 31 degrees when I left the house at 6:30.

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.

23 minutes ago, midatlanticweather said:

I see over 200K people are without power in Central VA. NOT good! Hope you have a generator!

 

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.

2 minutes ago, bricka1222 said:

This may have been posted already but:

Mexico Beach: https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/michael/index.html#16/29.9489/-85.4177

Saint Joe Beach: https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/michael/index.html#15/29.8995/-85.3554

 

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?

2 minutes ago, hlcater said:

I’m talking in the grand scheme of things. There’s definitely 2 camps on Twitter.

I see. I do not twitter.

4 minutes ago, hlcater said:

What’s interesting is that there’s 2 camps to the argument here. 1 camp is arguing that a C5 was justifiable based on the recon data just prior to landfall and the other is saying Michael was only a C2. The only plausible reason I can think of that would allow these ideas to coexist can only  be summed up as “humanity.”

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.

Just now, the ghost of leroy said:

Why did you put “world” in quotation marks as if it were a hoax or something?

Or flat.

1 minute ago, fourseasons said:

*Stands on soapbox*

 

All of the "This storm isn't as bad as what I've seen/experienced/read on the internet" is pathetic. 

 

Get over yourselves.

 

*Gets off soapbox and puts it into storage*

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.

16 minutes ago, KPITSnow said:

Sadly I agree. You know there are going to be people on the barrier islands that get inundated, and if it tracks down towards sc/ga that just further exsatribates the issues because they weren’t really fully expecting this.

 

 

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.

11 minutes ago, rjmusser said:

Can anyone help? I'm in a bit of a pickle. Supposed to be flying CLT> ATL > Paris Sat. Leave CLT 11am and leave ATL at 33pm. I am currently trying to cancel my CLT leg and drive down to ATL and leave for ATL on Friday night. Do you think that flight timing would also be in jeopardy? Now with it shifting further south idk if I should stay put in CLT. Not sure on the timing. 

 

Any ideas?

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!

1 hour ago, buckeye said:

My folks live in Sunset Beach NC, 2 miles inland in a 12 year old home golf,course community.  Their lot is 28 feet above sea level.   They have refused to leave as have many of their neighbors.  I'm at my wits end and this latest run of the euro looks like the nightmare scenario for them.  My sisters and I have about half a day to try and convince them, scare them, do whatever we can to get them to gtfo.

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.

47 minutes ago, the ghost of leroy said:

i see more of a snake.  like the serpent in genesis. i highlighted it in white for you.

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

2 minutes ago, the ghost of leroy said:

if you stare into that long enough you'll see a ghastly birdface on the left blob.  could have a higher meaning...

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

8 minutes ago, the ghost of leroy said:

it's not mount denali.  how many feet ASL are we talking here? 50? 100?

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."

10 minutes ago, the ghost of leroy said:

15 miles is a long distance for frictional effects to bring down the wind speed. i'm not saying the wind won't be intense, but it won't be 110/130g.

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

18 minutes ago, the ghost of leroy said:

i'll eat my shoe and post it in this thread if an inland location like that actually experiences sustained 110

 

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.