150 people awaiting rescue in New Bern, NC because people are fucking dumb and didn't evacuate
150 people awaiting rescue in New Bern, NC because people are fucking dumb and didn't evacuate
Florence made landfall at 6:15 AM ET - https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/sta...65494179405824
Tornado watch in effect for most of NC - https://twitter.com/NWSRaleigh/statu...55010160054278
350 people in New Bern who decided to stay despite a mandatory evacution had to be rescued from flood waters - https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local...218380955.html | https://twitter.com/CityofNewBern/st...87129900634112 | https://twitter.com/doseofyei/status...02138248544258
320k+ are without power in NC - https://twitter.com/WRALClaudia/stat...43970294726657
Looting reported in Brunswick County (Myrtle Beach), a mandatory evacuation area - https://twitter.com/Brunscosheriff/s...24659152875520
Raleigh (#PRAYFORDAY) hit with an internet outage - https://twitter.com/WRAL/status/1040485692084834305
Waffle House emergency menu is now in effect - https://twitter.com/wxgarrett/status...99720701673472
Cape Fear River is expected to hit 24.5 ft above it's normal level, the previous record of 22.5 ft was reached during Hurricane Floyd in 1999 - https://twitter.com/BillKarins/statu...13071301713920
I'm still here w power... for now, getting windy out there this AM
Jesus. I travel for a living and have a bunch of hotel points. I've been offering these points to a friend in NC for a week. She is fine because she is further west with a friend, but her mom was too stubborn to leave and now they can't get ahold of her. She should be ok since that area just has a lot of power loss and low cell signal, but what's worse is her brother as of midnight was STUCK IN A FUCKING TREE because of flooding because his dumbass lives in grantsboro and didn't leave.
Edit: Her mom is fine and had only shut off her phone to conserve power, so at least there is some good news. But her brother is thinking of swimming for it and we all know how that would end.
This is a really sick website for tracking the weather, all kinds of cool shit to play with https://www.ventusky.com/
I went to see how the US is doing on youtube and fuckers are calling the HURRICANE fake. Like what the shit?
Do they fine people who refuse to leave during mandatory evacuations who end up needing rescue services as a result? If not, they should.
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That probably wouldn't do much good, neither to encourage them to evacuate nor to make a payment after a rescue.
Apparently 2 out of 5 of Americans couldn't afford an unexpected $400 expense. This is probably many of these people who don't evacuate, seemingly regardless of forecast severity.
4 dead so far. 2 from a tree falling on a house, 1 from emergency service unable to reach a woman because of blocked roads, and a guy who plugged a generator in in standing water.
20 inches of rain has fallen so far - https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/sta...46929020018689
New Bern & Wilmington are flooded.
Raleigh (#PRAYFORDAY) expected to get hit with flooding - https://twitter.com/NWSRaleigh/statu...57844855558144
New expected path;
I'm going to guess that Marines over at Cherry Point are going to be doing some working parties to help out at New Bern once things calm down (literally next town over).
Florence has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm.
There is a lot to unpack in that picture, but the girl on the left kinda cute.