Tropical Storm / Hurricane Florence / update Michael

Glad to hear you are hanging in there!

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Great view of the hurricane (probably yesterday or the day before) from the ISS


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Wheew, for a moment I thought you’d say it was from the cockpit— flying inverted at negative 4 G


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Pretty much a non-event in Hampton. About an hour to go to high tide at 13:21
maybe get a foot more. Doesn’t look bad at all.

The wind just making the tall grass ripple a bit. The “Mandatory Evacuation” has been canx.

@chipwich, sorry I didn’t check in sooner but decided to sleep in this morning. The last few days spent “battening the hatches” afloat and ashore took there toll.

Our thought and prayers to those farther south. :neutral_face:

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New Bern and surrounding areas are getting hammered.

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and “communicating” with the hurricane like Goose did in TopGun :sunglasses:

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Just north of Raleigh and yeah, nothing, overcast, occasional breeze

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That 
hurricane thing
 deserve a double ration of
 “communicating”.

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Glad to hear you are doing ok !

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I think, at this point, clicking the little “Like Jet” for posts from the hurricane impact, area are not because we like the news, but to show solidarity with those going through the storm.

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I’m a bit surprised at the rather abrupt cut off as seems Raleigh is getting a decent taste of the wind and rain, and i’m about 20 miles north of RDU as the 737 flies and it seems like nothing notable is happening

Some cool footage of a WC-130J penetrating Florence.

I’m pretty sure this is how the Hurricane Hunter crews walk around when they aren’t flying.
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it’s the same shield that keeps us from getting snow here when we really want a snow day when Durham or Mebane are getting them, but allows ice and freezing rain in that misses everywhere else except for Clayton.

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You could always turn on the sprinklers at the ballpark like they did in Bull Durham

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On a related note, the non-movie Bulls had their championship series moved entirely to Scranton, but they’re up 2-1 so yay and bring another one home despite Aunt Hurricane Flo

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How many Amps does it pull? We have power to our boat slip but only 30 Amps max. Right now we are using a dehumidifier to keep the dampness at bay, but it does nothing for the interior temp.

1250 w and 10.8 amps
 I think you’d be better off with an RV type a/c unit or something that you could lay over the top of your companionway or something


So now that hurricane it’s really
 Florence and the machine?

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This is a very simple game. You throw the ball. You catch the ball. You hit the ball.

@531Ghost, @Hangar200, looks like a heavy band is heading your direction. How y’all doing up there?