Crazy story on news?

[NC George]

Just had an interview with a Local Lowe's manager (specific store was Cape Carteret, I think) on our newscast, he claimed head office was instructing him to ensure he had ample supplies of generators, batteries, and tarps. In Eastern NC, what does Lowe's know that we don't?

[Mac]

Go to CNN and look at the damage Cindy caused in Georgia. Regardless of where Dennis makes landfall, his remnants will inevitably end up on the east coast.

[JenyEliza]

Damage just south of Atlanta, courtesy of Tropical Depression Cindy:



Link to more damage photos: http://lpe.ajc.com/gallery/view/metro/0705/storm/

Having Cindy visit last night was decidedly NOT fun for us up here in Atlanta (nor was Ivan, or Opal or Frances....blah blah blah...they all seem to come through here sooner or later).

Jeny

[Cookiely]

I heard on TWC that they are expecting Dennis to stall and there will be extensive flooding in the Southeast.

[crazycajuncane]

I heard reports tonight that Dennis may very well stall out when he comes on shore. Maybe that is where they are getting concerned?

Brent ~ crazycajuncane

[BUD]

Go to CNN and look at the damage Cindy caused in Georgia. Regardless of where Dennis makes landfall, his remnants will inevitably end up on the east coast.

Last year Ivan spawn a record number of tornadoes in SC and caused alot of damage.

[JenyEliza]

I heard on TWC that they are expecting Dennis to stall and there will be extensive flooding in the Southeast.

Oh, goody. I'm still fighting the battle of the Mold left behind in our crawl space after Ivan. We had 12-18 inches of water under our house for days...and we still have to spray bleach under the house periodically to kill off the mold.

Can't wait for extensive flooding from Dennis (that is, if he visits us in GA--which is looking fairly likely).

Jeny

[NC George]

Yes, but we are talking extreme coastal NC, well away (like two states, Tenn and the entire length of NC) from the projected path of Dennis. He would have to cross the Florida peninsula and re-emerge into the Atlantic to affect Cape Carteret, IMHO. We MAY get one squall out of Cindy here in South Central Eastern NC, but the line is breaking up into individual storms, not the solid line it was earlier, it looks like my area might not get any rain at all, or light rain and no storm.

Believe me , we have had plenty of storms here, so I well know what they can do.

[Swimdude]

You should always be prepared; you never know how powerful this storm will be when it reaches the North... It escapes me right now, but there was one storm many years ago that remained creepishly strong for well over a day of making landfall. Was that Camille? I'm sure someone can let me know...

[Mac]

Heck, he's forecast to hit Nashville (his remnants, anyway). Bear in mind that he is a very large system. He will impact a very large area of the SE U.S., first as a hurricane, then as a tropical storm, and finally as a tropical depression. Thunderstorms, tornados, flooding, etc., are likely across much of the SE U.S., including the Carolinas.

[NC George]

You should always be prepared; you never know how powerful this storm will be when it reaches the North... It escapes me right now, but there was one storm many years ago that remained creepishly strong for well over a day of making landfall. Was that Camille? I'm sure someone can let me know...

That would be Hazel, hurricane strength the entire path from NC to Canada.

[Swimdude]

You should always be prepared; you never know how powerful this storm will be when it reaches the North... It escapes me right now, but there was one storm many years ago that remained creepishly strong for well over a day of making landfall. Was that Camille? I'm sure someone can let me know...

That would be Hazel, hurricane strength the entire path from NC to Canada.

Thanks!! Found the map. THIS is why they're urging everyone to take precaution...

[Swimdude]

And please note, that was a cat. 1 at landfall. This one could be a 3/4.

[NC George]

I don't know about those intensity claims. From Jay Barnes book, "NC's Hurricane History": Winds measured at 98 in Wilmington NC. Estimates at 125 on Wrightsville Beach, and 140 on Oak Island. There was an 18 foot storm surge at Long Beach. Fayetteville reported gusts of 110 mph. Gusts of 120 reported in Kinston, Goldsboro and Faison. Washington DC, Philly, and Balimoret reported gusts to 95 mph.

Does this sound like a Cat 1? I've been through several landfalling Cat 1's (and 2's) here in eastern NC, and let me tell you, Hazel was no Cat 1. Looks to me like the red line ends too soon. From the above descriptions, it sounds like a Cat 3 when it made landfall.

[jrod]

You should always be prepared; you never know how powerful this storm will be when it reaches the North... It escapes me right now, but there was one storm many years ago that remained creepishly strong for well over a day of making landfall. Was that Camille? I'm sure someone can let me know...

Isabel rivals Camille as one of the most intense in my memory.

Her surge made new inlets in the Outer Banks.

A great storm with an intense ground swell felt up and down the East Coast.

[BUD]

I don't know about those intensity claims. From Jay Barnes book, "NC's Hurricane History": Winds measured at 98 in Wilmington NC. Estimates at 125 on Wrightsville Beach, and 140 on Oak Island. There was an 18 foot storm surge at Long Beach. Fayetteville reported gusts of 110 mph. Gusts of 120 reported in Kinston, Goldsboro and Faison. Washington DC, Philly, and Balimoret reported gusts to 95 mph.

Does this sound like a Cat 1? I've been through several landfalling Cat 1's (and 2's) here in eastern NC, and let me tell you, Hazel was no Cat 1. Looks to me like the red line ends too soon. From the above descriptions, it sounds like a Cat 3 when it made landfall.

Yes, you are right because when it made landfall near littleriver,SC there was only 1 house standing after that storm and that was from Myrtle beach to littleriver.And today some of the older people I talk to feel it should been a cat 5.

[NC George]

I was in Isabel, as well as Bertha, Fran, Dennis of 1999, Floyd, and Bonnie. In order of how they affected my particular location, from highest to lowest: Floyd, Fran, Bertha, Isabel, Bonnie, Dennie of 1999. Fran or Floyd also cut new inlets as I recall. Fran and Floyd are a close call, because the wind was worse and longer in duration with Fran, but much more flooding with Floyd. Isabel did trap me on my street for a half-day, two huge oak trees fell, each about 1/3 of a mile from my house, one on the east, one on the west.

[AussieMark]

And please note, that was a cat. 1 at landfall. This one could be a 3/4.

Hazel was around a category 4 at landfall

[air360]

yea, although they may act like they are trying to be prepared not to much is really going on here in Eastern NC right now. I live about 15min from that Lowes that that news story is from and if they are "preparing" then im pretty sure they are they only ones...shoot...no one even knew about Cindy or Dennis that i talked to today...i was amazed..no one even had any idea that cindy just went up the country a few hundred miles inland.
And about the hazel storm...that was one crazy storm...i have heard stories from my grandparents about that storm and i promise you there is no way that could have been less than a 3 by any means. Ive been through ever storm to hit NC since the mid 80's and not a single one of them even comes close to what the describe hazel was like!

[beenthru6]

We lived in a beach house in North Myrtle Beach for a while that was washed back off of the ocean front by Hazel. It ended up sitting crooked a block back (this was a two story house with huge cypress beams in the attic). The owner of the house ended up buying the land it ended up on and straightened up the house on the lot, and it still sits there today. When we moved in the upstairs unit, the elderly lady who owned it was still living in the bottom and was 100 years old. She would have laughed in the face of anyone who claimed Hazel was a cat 1.