And as usual it was reported once the storm begins first responders will not go out into the storm to rescue folks in need. But as usual they are out there rescuing folks before the storm has passed. Maybe this is why folks decide to ride out the storm knowing there is a safety net?
IMO.. one of the biggest dangers will be uprooted trees. When the ground gets saturated lots of big ones come down.
Exactly, along with the wind direction change forcing the trees to bend one way and then the other. Trees should not be near power lines for this reason.
Trees fall on homes, and take down power lines. And if the trees are big enough they can create a dam effect and prevent water from running off creating a lake effect.
Solid brick houses on crawl spaces on high ground can still be devastated by falling trees.. Further, trees will be falling on cars.. I am talking about large pines and old live oak trees.
Yes, I do understand falling trees is a threat to any home, but to say it's the biggest threat in a landfalling hurricane is ridiculous.
Uh-huh. "They" have also been saying that at Category one (ONE), Hurricane Florence is "the storm of a LIFETIME".... Category one. Link: https://www.express.co.uk/news/weat...er-update-damage-storm-US-east-coast-Carolina By sharp contrast, Hurricane Hugo reached Category Five (FIVE), and was a full-blown Cat. Four when it did most of its damage back in 1989. But Florence? A big, rainy wind storm, that will be a big pain in the ass. But, not even to be seriously compared with the day-after-day-after day DELUGES that Hurricane Harvey dumped on Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast last year....
Exactly.......just watching a CNN scrolling headline “150 people still waiting to be rescued in New Bern, NC”............are you kidding me.......’still waiting’. They were being told to evacuate 24 hours ago. Just a small insight at the country we have become.......and the victim mentality narrative the MSM constantly portrays.
I'm pretty sure that if I had chosen not to evacuate, I'd be too embarrassed to ask someone to risk their life to rescue me.
I may have to disagree with you on your last statement. Florence has the potential to be a bigger flooding issue than Harvey.
Did I "go through" those hurricanes? No, but I did experience Hurricane Carla (Cat. FIVE) -- "Hurricane Carla ranks as the most intense U.S. tropical cyclone landfall on the Hurricane Severity Index." Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carla . Among other things, Carla completely ERASED the small Texas city of Port O'Connor off the map.... But that's not important, as I'm sure you know. There's a lot of things I didn't "experience" but which I (and others) know quite a bit about. Hurricane Audrey... the "Great Chilean Earthquake" (ML 9.5, 1960)... Krakatoa... World War II... the Roman Empire..., etc. How 'big' are things, Margot? What's the difference between one thing and another? Does it matter? Only if we're trying to maintain accurate perspectives that keep Science itself advanced beyond the Dark Ages....
You could be right, but it is WAY too premature for anyone to create headlines that screech that Florence is "THE STORM OF A LIFETIME".... There's a number of similarities and dissimilarities between Harvey (as it actually was) and Florence (as we see it to this point). You may enjoy reading this informative article at Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevor...th-one-key-difference-geography/#7f6e17486401
It was the Daily Express a newspaper with such a tangential relationship with the truth that I'd even check the date on the masthead against a calendar, just to make sure. The Daily Express always has hyperbolic headlines.
Lester Holt (NBC) said Florence will be the "once in a lifetime destructive force"... blah blah blah. Too bad Florence wasn't listening to his hysteria. Cat 1. We'll hope for the best given the falling intensity of the storm as it reaches the coast. For those who left, getting back shouldn't take them that long, and looks like damage won't be nearly as "catastrophic" as our weather media hoped....
Google it up and you'll find these Hurricane Florence "STORM OF A LIFETIME" banners at many different sites....
The top references relate to direct quotes from a couple of days ago from the National Weather Service when they still thought it was a Category 4 storm
Mmm... then the news media might have WAITED just a bit before blowing out all this "STORM OF A LIFETIME" hysteria.... Why is this all starting to remind me of how the news media went bug-eyed insane over "Sandy" a few years ago? It, too, was just a big, windy rain storm. A costly rain storm, yes. But nothing to be compared with a REAL hurricane....
Your power company provides 3 circuits to your home. 2 out of phase 120 volt circuits and a neutral. Backfeeding your home with a generator is a nice solution to power outages, however, turning the main breaker off only disconnects the two 120 volt circuits from the grid but does nothing to the neutral. A neutral circuit can have potential. Proper generator switch over gear breaks all three circuits.
It's more of the storm surge that comes along with major hurricanes that does most of the damage. For example, during Katrina, MS had a 30' storm surge that wiped homes off their foundations, took out bridges and even the huge casinos. Luckily Florence died down a lot before making landfall, but huge amounts of rain it is going to dump and it's slow movement is what's going to make it more costly than many cat 1 hurricanes.
