Wind and too much rain on already saturated ground are my main concerns. Last night I hooked up a submersible pump at the bottom of my outdoor basement steps, the French drain there couldn’t handle all the rain we had earlier this summer and my basement flooded once.
Interestingly, the ECMWF model now has it turning back southwest and making landfall near Savannah. I don’t if that’s a glitch in the data or what. www.windy.com (I have no affiliation) has pretty good maps and lets you choose from three different models.
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My brother is evacuating from Oak Island, NC tomorrow morning.
I think the residents of any community in SC or NC with the word “Beach” or “Island” in it should GTFO rightawayquick while they can.
Got myself a little pump. Water barriers are sold out everywhere.
Ah, Mama Zappa, how it warms the heart with nostalgic stirrings… Vienna sausages… with soda crackers, my People’s keys to survival in the face of natural disaster! 
Total rain forecasts have currently gone down in our area. Where they were talking 10 to 30 inches of rain they are now talking 6 to 10. While this is certain to cause heavy flooding, it is not as calamitous as what they were saying only this morning.
So it is wait and see. It’s sad because better news for us likely means worse news for someone else. But the way the projected path and rainfall total estimates keep changing there can be no good news for anyone until this storm is gone. I was off work today and needed it. But I understand the lines were extreme and the wait times long.
My wife doesn’t understand emergency stocking—“Too many carbs!” “High cholesterol!” “Canned fruit is yucky!”
So we came back with no spam, no crackers, no breakfast bars, no jerky, and no canned fruit.
Luckily we found some Deer Park stages away in the wrong aisle.
Might have been a glitch. Right now two out of the three models show a near bullseye on Wilmington, with the third going just a hair further toward Southport.
Oh, my - this looks like a worrying amount of rainfall.
Guess who said in a press conference that the hurricane is “tremendously wet”.
Yeah.
Trying to figure out plans now. I’m northwest of Charleston about 40 miles from the ocean. According to today’s projections I should be looking at high winds and 4-6 inches of rain. The chance of storm surge getting here is vanishingly low - not only are we far from the coast, but also far from rivers and on relatively high ground for the area.
On the other hand, my ex-wife - who is away for the week - is freaking out and texting me every 20 minutes about it.
Carolinas Dopers, do take care. High ground, plans for alternate contact/transport means, supplies, what they all said. It has been said before, it is water that racks up the big casualty count. The predicted prolonged stall of heavy rain is worrisome and it will slow down response times. Here’s looking to see if lessons learned from prior calamities did get taken to heart.
Whoever’s in the way, please get out of the way. If everybody heeded the warnings, things would be a lot safer for all the police and firemen who’d otherwise have to risk their lives. Your work will probably be out for a few days, may as well head inland for a mini-vacation.
Things like this make you appreciate modern technology, if this happened 100 years ago it would have just appeared out of the blue and you’d be looking at thousands of deaths.
Finally, I’m sure it’s great for the hearing-impaired to have signers next to the governors as they make their announcements. But holy shit it is hilarious to watch them.
My concerns here in Charlotte are almost entirely limited to power outages and trees falling on our house. Ironically, the missus and I have been planning to have our trees taken down for about 6 months, but were putting it off in favor of a new roof first. Now, of course, there’s the chance that our homeowner’s insurance may have to pay for the roof should the worst happen.
Well, it’s probably much cheaper to have someone cut up a downed tree with a chainsaw, than to take down a large, mature standing tree. Win-Win all around!! :D:D
But more seriously, I hope that does NOT happen. Falling trees are dangerous if you’re in the part of the house they fall on, not to mention the trauma and damage to your house and possessions. If there are trees you’re especially suspicious of, maybe hang out in a different part of the house until well after the storm.
Some “tremendously wet” chickens coming home to roost for climate-change-denying N.C. legislators: 6 years ago, North Carolina chose to ignore rising sea levels. This week it braces for disaster.