Gold Silver Reports (GSR) — Frying Pan Ocean cam – 1.9 million are under a hurricane warning Thursday, and more than 1 million were ordered to evacuate. According to the National-Hurricane Center, storm surge of up to 13 feet will be “life threatening.” The biggest concern is for large amounts of rainfall — up to 40 inches in some areas — which could bring “catastrophic flooding.”
The Frying Pan Ocean cam has an up close and personalview of Hurricane-Florence approaching the east coast.
A tornado watch has been issued for parts of North Carolina until 7 AM EDT pic.twitter.com/i3efeVAbCy
— NWS Newport/Morehead (@NWSMoreheadCity) September 14, 2018
The video footage comes from the Coast Guard tower about 34 miles off the coast of North Carolina, in the area where Florence is going to strike. The tower’s helipad is about 100 feet above the water.
Last year, we tweeted this: https://t.co/NkOqn3JkRS
— National Weather Service (@NWS) September 14, 2018
It's alarming that it's become relevant again, but #Florence is forecast to bring a large area of rainfall of 20-40" to parts of NC/SC. We cannot overstate the threat of catastrophic flooding this storm will bring! pic.twitter.com/4obR151kFp
✅ Hurricane Florence is expected to bring a life-threatening storm surge to North Carolina and South Carolina.
✅ Florence began battering the Carolina coast on Thursday, with the storm closing in at 100 mph (155 kph) winds.
✅ Historic river flooding is expected in North Carolina, which could potentially cause a dump containing mercury, arsenic and lead to flow into a local water supply.
✅ Florence’s winds weakened as it approached land, and the hurricane was downgraded from a Category 4 to a 2.
✅ There have been power outages for more than 80,000 people in North Carolina.
✅ There are more than more than 12,000 people in 126 shelters in the state, and officials are preparing to open more shelters.
✅ The governor of Virginia advised residents to shelter in place and stay off the roads on Thursday.
✅ Nearly 2m coastal residents have faced evacuation orders.
✅ The hurricane has sparked fears of potential environmental disasters, with waste from hog manure pits, coal ash dumps and other industrial sites possibly washing into homes and water supplies.