Hope he makes out OK

The media reports I’ve been keeping up with since last week including NOAA, etc, were forecasting it to make landfall as a category 2. I guess what made this storm substantial was it’s slow moving nature and the potential for catastrophic rains. I don’t know ..I’m not there obviously. How are things where you’re at?
So far the curl back Southwest hasn't ocurred yet so the Hilton Head area just has some breezes right now. We are supposed to get some rain and 25mph winds tomorrow afternoon. For Matthew and Irma we were on the wrong side of the storm and got the flooding from the storm surges that NC has experienced. So I feel for them.
 
the problem with people like this, is that they endanger rescue workers when their little adventure turns sour.
Yeah, not so much. Judging this as an "adventure" is a bit excessive. Had Florence headed up this way, that's exactly what I, and most experienced captains with larger vessels would have done. Find a sheltered hurricane hole, double/triple anchor, start the genny, and experience nature. Can something go wrong? Sure can - a tree can fall on your house too.
 
Yeah, not so much. Judging this as an "adventure" is a bit excessive. Had Florence headed up this way, that's exactly what I, and most experienced captains with larger vessels would have done. Find a sheltered hurricane hole, double/triple anchor, start the genny, and experience nature. Can something go wrong? Sure can - a tree can fall on your house too.
I just saw on the Weather Channel that a tree did fall on a house & killed a mother and her child. Dad is in the hospital. Anything can happen in a storm. Mother nature doesn't play favorites.
 
So far the curl back Southwest hasn't ocurred yet so the Hilton Head area just has some breezes right now. We are supposed to get some rain and 25mph winds tomorrow afternoon. For Matthew and Irma we were on the wrong side of the storm and got the flooding from the storm surges that NC has experienced. So I feel for them.

I have some friends in Wilmington that I haven’t heard from since yesterday. Phones are mostly busy when I try to call, so I’m concerned.
 
I do believe the media seems genuinely disappointed in Florence since Hurricanes are usually a great source of stories, news and politics. From the beginning they built this storm up to be the "storm of storms" and it basically is a bust. Most news outlets warned it could grow again in strength when it clearly was spinning down (internal pressure rising). On site newsman faking "holding on for dear life" proves they are more interested in creating the news than reporting it.

I just worry that crying wolf means a lot more people will ignore warnings when and if the wolf actually shows up.
 
I just worry that crying wolf means a lot more people will ignore warnings when and if the wolf actually shows up.

I was thinking the same thing. People are going to ignore evacuation warnings and other warnings. That bogus Weather Channel video didn’t help, either.
 
I live near Pittsburgh and until 1985 tornadoes around here were unheard of. The first I know of was May 31st, 1985 and I was sort of in it. Anyway, after that we got tornado warnings quite often. At first people panicked and went to their basements. We still get warnings several times a year but most of the time it is nothing. It just got to the point where they issued warnings so often with the majority being nothing that people just blow it off now (no pun intended...lol). I know I do. I live in a brick house so I have a little comfort in that but the amount of false alarms just got so bad that they are mostly ignored now.
 
Reporter can hardly stand, yet check out the two guys behind him

 

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