Zero Hedge
September 12, 2018
The latest computer forecasts from Tuesday afternoon have predicted that Hurricane Florence, still a Category 4 yet growing larger and more powerful, may shift and hit somewhere near the border between North and South Carolina as coastal residents flee what may be the most powerful hurricane to hit the state in 64 years, according to Bloomberg.
“Florence is expected to stall and wander near or over the coast for as many as four days, dumping prodigious amounts of rain,” said meteorologist Jeff Masters of Weather Underground, who added “If a significant portion of the storm’s circulation remains over water, as occurred last year with Hurricane Harvey’s stall over Southeast Texas — or even if Florence were to move into the higher terrain of western North Carolina and then stall — the rain may break all-time state records for rainfall from a hurricane or tropical storm.”
Evolution in @NHC_Atlantic track maps for Hurricane #Florence , visualized by the @axios viz team. Updates on the hurricane here: https://t.co/UvqFcdEzph pic.twitter.com/WfIFSBC4Yx
— Andrew Freedman (@afreedma) September 11, 2018
“We don’t want to gamble with a single South Carolina life.”
Southeast braces for Hurricane #Florence: https://t.co/YzXAvUeNfR pic.twitter.com/v0tvOCA1Xm
— ABC News (@ABC) September 11, 2018
SCHP flush cars leading traffic from Charleston to Columbia in the reversed lane. #Florence
🌀🛣🚓🚙🚐🚗🚚 pic.twitter.com/xML8vpBP3A— Trooper Bob (@TrooperBob_SCHP) September 11, 2018
“It’s really a dicey forecast right now,” says National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Emlaw.
Landfall is expected late Thursday or early Friday, while mandatory evacuations are in place in preparation for a 12-foot storm surge which could affect over 750,000 homes, according to property analytics firm CoreLogic, while causing up to $27…