Hurricane Florence
I know without a doubt I and my neighbors dogged a bullet this month.
I dont like hurricanes and I especially hate September hurricanes that start with the letter "F". The reason being. Hurricane Floyd came through 9/15/1999 and the inland surge from the Tar river meeting the Rocky Mount dam, flooded my house on 9/16/1999.
It was a horrible experience...from leaving the house to crossing the river (my yard, street) with Mom and my 6 year old daughter to being displaced for months....
Two weeks ago Hurricane Florence was speeding as a Cat 5 Hurricane toward the NC/SC coast. It was to reach land around Wilmington NC. It was projected the eye would travel over Raleigh NC. This placed Rocky Mount on the NE side of the eye. Lots of tornadoes to be expected. The category was supposed to drop to a 1 as hit land.
A day or two before the storm hit, the projection was the storm would hit Wilmington and bobble southward, and stay there moving extremely slowly toward SC for over 24 hours. This would cause the storm eye over Fayetteville, NC. The storm would sit and spin for hours and hours, moving a few mph. NC was destroyed, but the north east quadrant of NC was almost untouched. If the original storm prediction, occurred, my house would be under water, and I would be looking for flood insurance money, and gone.
Its weeks later, and I'm staying with Dad at the farmhouse. I still have things stored up off the floor at my house. Major cleanup required.
