Thinking of all of you in the coastal SE

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I hope you have all prepared for the worst. If they closed Disney World I'm thinking it's evacuation time.

Sending prayers for a much smaller event than the news is predicting. Stay safe, warm and dry. Please let us know how you fare.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Same wishes for you too who are in the path of this hurricane.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Same here.

I'm watching, and things have just been upgraded to worst case scenario. 20-40 foot waves, 10 foot surge. 140 mph winds as much as eastern half of State of Florida. tornados. 12" rain. Entire Atlantic coast.

Worse when it gets to Georgia/Carolinas.

Think of all those mobile home communities that dot the coast!!!

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

I've heard it's not as dangerous as once thought. Still, be safe.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I've heard it's not as dangerous as once thought. Still, be safe.

I thought the same thing watching webcams, but didn't want to say it.

I mean, the fact that I was watching webcams says a lot.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

However:

"Hurricane Matthew, ‘Extremely Dangerous,’ Threatens Jacksonville"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us...thew.html?_r=0

[Hobbitess Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hobbitess]

I've heard it's not as dangerous as once thought.

Wobbled east a bit so for the most part the US dodged the bullet. Might be still early yet, but it sounds like most of the damage will be minor. Although if it were my house that got a few feet of flooding to the ground floor, or my hotel that had some goodly chunks of cement blown off it, "minor" is not the word I'd use. But I suppose it's minor compared to the house being picked up and carried off, or the entire face of the hotel stripped away.

Of those places hitting the news, Daytona Beach and St. Augustine seem to have gotten the worst of it. That video of water pouring into the Flagler College building is pretty unnerving; I'm hoping some of the older parts of town are higher, because they're also closer to the ocean!

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Some who escaped inland in NC, have been caught in heavy flooding. A lady on TV who escaped from the beach, wound up in a flooded motel room, and lost her car to the flood. She was going to rent a car to drive to buy a car. Somehow that doesn't sound right, but might be what she has to do.

[Laurie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Laurie]

Hilton Head was devastated, or so we are hearing.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Hilton Head was devastated, or so we are hearing.

It's pretty exposed; not anything to protect it.

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

It was a mess, Springmaid Pier at So Myrtle Beach collapsed. Lost the pier at Oak Island. Tons of rain. Fayettville, NC was flooded and it's about 1 1'2 hrs inland. Lots of flooding. My area was just fine.
shaggy

[Hobbitess Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hobbitess]

Some who escaped inland in NC, have been caught in heavy flooding.

The predictive storm surge map had some areas with little flooding on the coast, then massive flooding at a point well up some of the waterways -- or in low-lying areas without a waterway running through them. When I looked at it, however, it had a lot of predictions like that through Florida and up to around Charleston, but shortly north of that it was just a warning line along the coast. It may be the storm got ahead of the guys doing the more detailed analysis and so they didn't evacuate those areas.

Hilton Head was devastated, or so we are hearing.

They predicted nearly the whole island would get 3 feet of water or more -- and a fair bit of it they were predicting over six feet. Looked like it would be pretty ugly even if it didn't get hit as hard as predicted.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

& the floods are still coming in inland NC.

very bad

[Hobbitess Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hobbitess]

& the floods are still coming in inland NC.

After the Thousand Year Flood in Tennessee, new places were flooding two days after it stopped raining. Not sure how parallel that is.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I heard from a very good friend in Pawleys Island, SC yesterday. In that true native-y way she said things were "messy" but they had the power and cell service restored the night of Oct 9.

A client of ours has offices in Charleston and they reopened yesterday. Not much in the way of damage.