Woohoo! Some blue sky! A little sunshine here in central NC! It’s been a long time.
@Rex said:
Woohoo! Some blue sky! A little sunshine here in central NC! It’s been a long time.
Same here, but we needed the rain.
The force of the storm was pretty amazing all over Wilmington. We got lucky. Only minor roof damage and leaking into the ceiling. The neighbor on one side had a large tree fall towards the northeast across the road. The neighbor on the other side had a large tree fall north on top of their shed and across our fence. At the back corner of our yard, a large tree uprooted and fell to the south. The next yard over back there had another tree fall to the south on top of their shed. A huge oak and long leaf pine at the end of the block fell towards the west. Crazy to see large trees falling all different directions everywhere you can get to look around.
A half mile away, there is water standing a couple feet deep, and two houses with trees through their roof. Not far from there, a newer 2 story brick home where the brick walls crumbled under a fallen tree. So many trees and power lines down, and I understand that there is no way in or out of town at this time. This wind damage from a category 1. I can’t imagine what it would have looked like if it had maintained category 4. Now the flooding is in progress.
God bless the utility crews and city crews from here and all over coming in to help! They’re working their tails off. We’re near the hospital, and luckily have electricity back already. Amazing how quickly the crews are getting trees cut up and lines re-hung and operational. Give your local utility crews a smile and a thank you (even a hug) the next time you see them!
Glad no to hear you are OK
Happy to read today’s check-ins and hoping the water levels start going back down. Media report this morning was that Wilmington is indeed inaccessible right now. Interstate 40 is closed down all the way up to Benson, which is where Bill Bremer (Lumpy) is located.
Too bad all that water can’t be sent to the western states.
or here. You can walk the Allagash. Normal at Allagash Village is 700 cfs at this time of year. That usually is marginal canoeing. Its best at1500 cfs.
Its running 199 cfs today
From what l heard today Wilmington is not out of the woods yet. The river crest from rains inland won’t be there for another day or so, and it might go higher than Matthew. Glad to hear you are ok for now Cape Fear, hope it stays that way.
Glad no trees fell on your house. Man y’all got slammed with it sitting on you for so long, and still have tremendous flooding, I distinctly remember playing on our flooded streets after hurricane Donna hit FL in September 1960.
Growing up where we got hurricane days off from school instead of snow days, my Dad wouldn’t have a tree in the yard close enough to fall on the house. Yet I have always liked big trees in my yard, We took down 4 big trees that needed gone this summer. We still have about six really big Loblolly Pines that need to come down. I was very glad we didn’t get the high winds.
Good luck with the recovery. You got to love the utility crews and everyone else that are there to help.
Watching the flooding on TV is just so heartbreaking. After the storm is long gone the rivers continues to displace people and destroy property. The stress has to be enormance.
Here we got the wind and surge and could come back home in a few days to see what was left. The waiting is hard but then the years of work rebuilding will be much harder.
A tragedy for a long time to come.
hmm 83 foot waves. Well my father was on the USS Long Beach during the cruze around the world with the USS Enterprise and the USS BainBridge. When the went around the Horn they took lots of pictures. Long Beach took picture of Enterprise with a way in between, Picture was taken from the bridge of the long beach. You could only see the last 30 feet of the Enterprises’ last 30 feet of it’s conning tower. The is also a picture of Bain Bridge surfing down a wave and it’s stern and propellors are out of the water. I could not find the pic on the internet. But my dad had them in his home.
The rivers that drain most of Eastern SC are closed to boat traffic. A friend who lives near Myrtle Beach says the ocean is looking better but the rivers are still bad and will continue to flood for weeks.