Our home got hit last year on September 11 ! It came in at night which really sucked because you could hear bad stuff happening but couldn’t see it. The wind knocked over 5 huge trees of which one pancaked our screen cage and upper deck. We still are dealing with the insurance company and virtually no work has begun... it’s frustrating, but not nearly as bad as it could have been.

Good luck to those that have to deal with this one! I’ll tell you, 75 mile per hour wind is powerful stuff. I can’t imagine 100 or more. No thanks

We are in the path at SnapAV here in Charlotte. The exact path and potential for damage this far inland is up in the air at the moment. The storm is taking a similar path to Hurricane Hugo that tore into Charlotte 29 years ago as a tropical depression.

Too early to say yet but be prepared for support outages and delayed shipping times from Charlotte if the storm takes a turn for the worse here in Charlotte. Keep those out on the coast in mind. This is going to be a massive and historical storm the NC and SC coast. Some forecast models are calling for 48" of rain in some areas and the water table out there is already topped out from a summer of heavy rain.

I dont know who told you its following a similar path to Hugo, but thats not accurate. Hugo made landfall down at Myrtle, traveled almost straight to Charlotte and continued NW until the eye was over Wilkesboro. We were hit hard up here with Hugo.

Good luck to all in the path.

I had the opportunity to do some service work in Louisiana after Katrina. It made an impression on me.

The models have changed a bit and depending on the one you look at it will touch land in Wilmington first but make a direct hit in or around Myrtle Beach and travel inland from there. Hugo came from further south and hit in a similar spot then tore up through the Carolinas and further north.

My comment is mainly about Florene's impact to the Carolinas. Regardless there is still uncertainty on where this storm is going to hit and where it will end up. Those in the potential path should be prepared. There are plenty of people in our area that are not preparing because they feel protected this far inland. Many made that mistake when Hugo hit.

I haven’t seen the models of it hitting around myrtle. The ones I saw this morning still showed hitting around Moorehead then turning south after landfall.

Look again...[Link: nhc.noaa.gov]

Will it still be tremendously wet?

the likes of which nobody has ever seen - that i can tell you..

Umm yeah.
[Link: nhc.noaa.gov]

The rain isn't going to be a problem for the island, althouogh it will play hell with the roads all around the area.

Hell, even I-95 had portions that were closed last time.

Going to try getting back on Monday if I get a good report from my neighbor that's riding it out, but I know the drive will be very problematic. It'll require a rather circuitous route.

So many of the roads near there WILL be flooded, it's just going to be how bad they will flood.

From the way they're making it sound, any report from your neighbor will be a good report.

Is it supposed to be cleared out from there by Monday? They aren’t calling for us to really see the storm up here until Sunday and it is expected to just set and drop rain until late tuesday. And as big as this thing is, I’d expect it to still reach the coast

Yeah, Late Monday should be good. Migt still be raining some, but I'm OK with that.

Have an appointment at Duke Med first thing, won't get out of there til after 12 noon, and then I'll take I-40 down to Wilmy and cut over I-140 to US-17 and then jump on Hwy 87, as it's a little higher than the other roads into the island.

Been there done that.

Only going if I get the all clear though. No need to go if there's no power. I am not dragging my generator down there.

I was in the middle of renovating a house on the river in sw Florida when Irma hit last year. I decided on the last day to pull the lower cabinets and put 'em up on blocks. It was the right call as my house flooded several inches. It was a very tough set back after a long renovation, but I made it to the other side.

Any building materials of value that you can spare will be worth the effort to move to high ground. Hopefully the storm surge will be a nothing burger like it was here. Hurricanes are a tremendous waste of time and resources.