Sarah in SC
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Surfers here are thrilled, as usual. We're getting very nice surf and they expect good stuff off Wilmington as well.
Crap, just saw a photo from yesterday of a house getting partially washed away at the exact beach we are renting at in a few weeks.
Sounds like a relative non-event (versus what a Cat 4 bearing down on the coast could have been). Tropical Breezes and heavy rain are all that Wilmington received. Haven't heard reports from Outer Banks folks yet, other than the main fishing pier in Cape Hatteras was partially destroyed yesterday. Surf City/Topsail Island where I'm vacationing had this on their website this morning:
"No reported damage.
Beach is open.
Should be a wonderful Labor Day Weekend."
Sounds like great news for my upcoming vacation rental!! Three weeks is a long time to wait though during an active tropical weather season.
Doing the happy dance for you Enjoy your vacation!! Oh, some pics would be cool
Hey, it's hurricane season over here too. I'm just glad that we're not holding the great big target circle this week.Nords, please don't say a thing about the weather in your neck of the woods. I'm might have to get medieval on ya.
Haven't heard reports from Outer Banks folks yet, other than the main fishing pier in Cape Hatteras was partially destroyed yesterday.
Total non-event on the Outer Banks other than some sound side flooding below Oregon Inlet Bridge. We live far west side Kill Devil Hills on Colington Island and just got tropical force winds. No location on the OBX is risk free but we are certainly not anywhere near as vunerable as Hatteras or Ocracoke. The outside world tends to lump the whole place into one risk category.
Major Weather Channel hype touting the absolute worst case senario and the public buying into it. I spoze better safe than sorry but The Weather Channel sort of looked a bit foolish with their constant "rating grabbing" dire prediction bias. I was out doin chores on Friday morning while Al Roker was 3 miles away leaning into the wind like the sky was falling. Silly. Local media and county government handled it much better.