When hurricanes hit us, the whole frigging WalMart shelves are totally stripped. Jesus.

Gas is impossible to find. I fill all my jugs up, and almost ran out during Ike. Friggin hot beer!!! almost

 

I'm in NC about 100 miles from Wilmington there's no gas to water in the stores people is freaking out here the forecast has the eye coming right over where I live

 

A handy bit of hurricane advice I saw recently: buy baby wipes. Lots and lots of baby wipes.

Your bits and pieces will thank you after day 2 or 3 of no running water.

Good luck, you lot. I'm thinking about you and hoping you are all safe and sound.

 

What protocols has Trump failed to meet with regards to this incoming hurricane?

 

I've experienced many hurricanes, and I was caught with my pants down with Hurricane Ike.

Y'all be careful.

 

You got that right. Any type of non perishable food items, bottle water, batteries, fuel of any type and camping supplies will all be is short supply.

Those that can leave, should. Some people have no place to go and shelters fill up fast.

I feel for those people and their pets....

 

@conroe4, hope you're not in harms way. Do you live near where Florence could make landfall?

 

Looks pretty nasty. Should be a Cat 5 when it hits. Hope you all in the path stay safe.

 

This story just broke a little while ago.

Trump defunded $10 million from FEMA ‘response and recovery’ to spend on ICE detentions — just before hurricane season

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/tr...y-spend-ice-detentions-just-hurricane-season/

 

To all my friends in the South West...…….especially @Lioness and @Mrs.Wolfe please be safe and sound!!

Thinking of you all!!

Thinskin

 

The federal government provides disaster relief in the form of food, medical and temporary shelter.

The government is not responsible for rebuilding a persons house or commercial business.

The government will rebuild interstate highways if they are damage as well as any federal building or property.

Local and state governments will be responsible for repairs of the infrastructure in their own area.

Private insurance for home owners and commercial businesses will have to take care of the rest.

Organizations like the Salvation Army, American Red Cross and Catholic Charities will try to assist people with no insurance.

 

Latest I saw was it's been downgraded to a category 3, but still is thought to be bringing a major storm surge event and 15-25 inches of rain. Hilton Head and Charleston could really get hammered. My daughter in Durham is expecting heavy rains and high winds Friday.

 

I'm sure FEMA will have plenty of rolls of paper towels for donnie bonespurs to toss to survivors for a photo-op.

 

Yeah, good luck with that.

"North Carolina could find itself more vulnerable to damage from storms like Hurricane Florence due to a state law passed six years ago that banned using recent climate science to plan for the consequences of rising sea levels."

Climate scientists had warned for years that North Carolina's low-lying coast left it open to intensifying floods and hurricanes that could cost the state billions of dollars in damage, declining property values and lost recreation and tourism near the end of the 21st century. Climate scientists have also projected that rises in sea levels will make coastal storms more damaging, since more water will flood land.

• Rising sea levels may create "tipping points" for seaside towns

But in 2012, state lawmakers responded by saying these studies could not be used for forecasts, arguing that the science wasn't solid enough to justify laws that could change property values. A Republican-led legislature pushed a bill that said projections for rising sea levels could only be based on historical data, rather than newer studies predicting problems for the future.


Republican State Rep. Pat McElraft, who sponsored the bill, said at the time that studies of rising sea levels "used one model, the most extreme in the world."

"They need to use some science that we can all trust when we start making laws in North Carolina that affect property values on the coast," she said during a floor debate about the bill.

Climate scientists and environmental groups immediately pushed back on the bill, warning that it would hold back any attempts to be proactive about climate change on North Carolina's coast. The North Carolina Coastal Federation, a nonprofit that helps protects the coast, said the bill "undercuts" years of work from the state's emergency managers "to help prepare the state for hurricanes."

The bill even became the butt of a joke by comedian Stephen Colbert, a South Carolina native, who said in a 2012 episode of "The Colbert Report" that it was like trying to "predict the weather based on the last two weeks of fair weather."

"If your science gives you a result you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved," Colbert said.


Then-Gov. Bev Perdue, a Democrat, neither signed nor vetoed the bill, which allowed it to become law.

Six years later, North Carolina is one of several Southern states bracing for Florence, which is expected to hit especially hard on the coast starting Thursday. The National Weather Service in Newport and Morehead City, along North Carolina's coast, said Florence could bring unprecedented levels of rainfall and flooding.

A retired Duke University coastal geologist wrote an op-ed for Raleigh's daily newspaper last week warning that the state had only set itself up for disaster.

"We must take the long view and respond now to the rising sea in a planned fashion," Orrin H. Pilkey wrote in the News & Observer. "Currently the unspoken plan is to wait until the situation is catastrophic and then respond. We must begin the retreat now."

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I don't think I am even going to smart off on this thread from here on.

There are no sides now. There is only a storm. And we need to care about the life in the path of it.

 

I was referring to Houston.

Coastal areas at least know they're at risk whereas communities built along creeks, streams, or rivers that go through populated, landlocked areas seem blissfully unaware of it. That makes it probably the most dangerous place to live because people won't evacuate or take precautions until it's too late.