Florence / check in – Update: Now Hurricane Michael

[jerseygirl]

Keeping our members that may be affected by Hurricane Florence in my thoughts. I sincerely hope you’ve been able to prepare well and will get reliable information through-out. Please check in with us here when you can!

[joea64]

My parents, who live on the North Carolina coast southwest of Wilmington (currently ground zero for Florence landfall on Friday) are boarding up, packing up and planning to evacuate to Charlotte, a couple hundred miles inland, by Wednesday. I’m out of the direct path in Northern Virginia but expect to see heavy rain and wind over the weekend, on top of its having already been a wet past week; there are potential mudslide dangers in the Appalachian highlands (West Virginia/SW Virginia/westen North Carolina/eastern Tennessee). Panda and Fernando will have plenty of hay and pellets but I may need to go get their next week’s greens early (as well as human food).

UPDATE: The latest predictions have the storm surge hitting east/north of Wilmington, so the coast south/west is going to avoid the worst of it, which is a bit of good news. However, the coast between Wilmington and Jacksonville – Camp Lejeune, one of the main USMC bases, is located near Jacksonville, and they’re prepping too – is going to get it square in the proverbial kisser if Florence stays on its current path. Pretty much all of North Carolina in the quadrant denoted by Interstate highways 95 and 40 is now on hurricane watch/voluntary or mandatory evacuation.

UPDATE #2: Northern Virginia is apparently going to get brisk rainfall (6-10 inches), but not as much as I’d thought/feared. The coast south of Wilmington now is apparently predicted for less. The Jacksonville/Camp Lejeune area, however, looks very likely to get slammed.

[LittlePuffyTail]

Take care and stay safe everyone!!!!

[Q8bunny]

Stay dry, everybunny!

[Hazel]

If the projected path is accurate, it looks like we’ll be alright. We’ll see how bad the rain/flooding gets. Stay safe everyone!

[Yilina]

Stay safe, everybody! I live in a hurricane “path” in the Indian Ocean and we get about 1 hurricane a year + multiple tropical storms.

You’re never too prepared for them. Please, be as careful as possible <3

[Bam]

Stay safe and please check in here when you have the opportunity!

[joea64]

It looks like the DC area is pretty much out of the immediate path of Florence, though it’s going to be a wet weekend and Amtrak train schedules have been disrupted which is going to affect rail commutes tonight and tomorrow. My parents evacuated to Charlotte yesterday, though that’s not 100% safe either since high winds and rain are expected in the area. It appears that the outriders of rain, waves and wind have already begun hitting the North and South Carolina coasts, though the storm itself has “decreased” to a Category 2 while actually growing in overall size and slowing down as it approaches landfall.

[jerseygirl]

You must be relieved they’ve gone inland, joe. Even if this storm downgrades.

[joea64]

Posted By jerseygirl on 9/14/2018 1:46 AM

You must be relieved they’ve gone inland, joe. Even if this storm downgrades.

If you’re watching the news from America, Florence has made landfall just northeast of Wilmington. It’s “only” a Category 1 storm now, but that’s highly misleading; there’s already severe flooding, winds up to 100 mph near the storm’s eyewall, and the rain is coming down literally in bucketloads. We’re only getting the outermost cloud edges here in Washington, so it’s cloudy, drizzly in spots and a brisk breeze blowing, but not much more than that.

[JackRabbit]

The storm’s turn means Florence bypassed us in Virginia. Prayers to “our” buns and bun families in NC and SC.

[Muj Mom N Bun]

Stay safe. A category 1 is still a major storm and the storm surge is supposed to be as dangerous as the storm itself…. from a former North Carolinian …prayers

[jerseygirl]

Posted By JackRabbit on 9/14/2018 8:16 PM

The storm’s turn means Florence bypassed us in Virginia. Prayers to “our” buns and bun families in NC and SC.

Thanks for checking in JR, You were on my mind as I knew you were on that coast but couldnt recall exactly where. Sounds like you were lucky. Did you have to evacuate beforehand regardless?

[Cottontail]

Hello all; I know we’re not on much anymore, but some may remember that we’re down in SC. We were under evacuation orders, but stayed anyway for personal reasons.

We’ve gotten very little of the storm itself here; just wind and rain. We did have a branch break a window but no one was hurt. All the humans, bunnies, and cat are safe. I hope everyone else is good.

[JackRabbit]

Jersey, I’m more inland so no evac..

I’ve been watching and thinking about you Cottontail! You and Megabunny! Gotta keep those babies and bunnies safe! Congrats on the foursome!

[jerseygirl]

Oh yes, MB too!
CT, glad to hear from you and know you came through safely. I hope the wild weather hasn’t caused too much stress on the fur babies. I know with mine, they don’t seem to bat an eyelid at some wild weather, particularly loud weather. But I think if the house where to experience some movement/vibrations, they’d be more spooked.

[joea64]

As a postscript, my parents returned home to Oak Island (southwest of Wilmington) on Tuesday; it took them five and a half hours to get there from Charlotte due to all the road closures. The good news is that about the only damage their house sustained was a tree falling onto the deck, and other trees and plant cover being broken up around their yard. The building is situated some 20-25 feet above sea level, well back from the ocean and protected by several blocks of heavy tree cover and numerous buildings, so flooding seems to have not been an issue (plus which the house was thoroughly boarded up last week).

Washington didn’t get anything much more than a few inches of rain, chiefly on Monday/Tuesday. Still overcast this morning but I think that’s about it.

[jerseygirl]

Coming in late about Hurricane Michael. I hope our members in it’s pathway have come through this safely.

I wasn’t aware of this one like I had been for Florence. I saw some of the devastation of Mexico Beach in a video

[joea64]

Michael came rampaging through Virginia yesterday afternoon/evening. I wasn’t really paying attention to the news and didn’t know anything more than a storm was going on until my mother texted me to ask how I and the buns were doing.

[LittlePuffyTail]

Hope everyone is safe. Saw terrible pictures on TV.

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