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I told my sister yesterday I won't be surprised if it stays off shore till it reaches Georgia or the Carolinas. I just know it's happened a lot when a storm is predicted to land anywhere from Fort Lauderdale north on the Atlantic side.
Just the beginning of hurricane season too
Yup, don’t know how some of y’all continue to stay down there. It’s got to get old.... and those Bahamas cats... they always seem to get it as well.
Definitely impacted by Global Warming and news stations/agencies would rather be pessimistic for both "click bait" and the risk of being wrong is less disastrous if you over prepare than under prepare.
Hurricane seasons have been light the past five years. At this point, the most reliable models have it shifting north, kind of brushing against the coast. I have a lot of family in Florida, so I hope these most recent models are right.
I’ve got family in SC on the coast so I’d prefer it not hit there as they haven’t had much warning.
Unfortunately, it seems that most of the models are pointing to SC and NC for impact now more than Florida.....
if It skirts the coast of Florida just like Matthew it won’t matter , still wide spread flooding damage from storm surge . Houses falling into the ocean on a1a from vilano beach st aug north to Jax beach . Ortega area in Jax on the river will be flooded, many parts of st aug flooded as well.
This isn’t true at all. We’ve had a number of disastrous hurricanes the past few years. Harvey, Michael, Florence cost billions and billions in damages.
It may be confirmation bias but it certainly feels like hurricanes have gotten worse over the past couple decades. Sandy did 70 billion in damages and was only 7 years ago
No they’ve def gotten worse. More frequent and higher category
I don’t know that I believe they’ve gotten worse. Hazel, Mitch and the Galveston storm were powerful hurricanes too. I think the reason there’s more damage money wise is because there’s more and more people building beach front homes and businesses etc. Being a fairly short drive from the SC/NC coast and go a few times a year the population is definitely growing in places. Also the media does over sensationalize things, not down playing the storms but the media starts scaring people way before it’s time to be scared.
We're just getting into the busiest period of hurricane season. I think officially it starts much earlier, but most of the monsters come in Sep. I think Katrina hit New Orleans and the Mississippi coast on Sep. 5th.
Actually, US landfalling hurricanes have slightly decreased over the last century or so. Short duration storms have increased, but I'm not convinced that isn't simply better measurement. Storms lasting less than two days were likely missed in the pre-sattelite era.
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/historical-atlantic-hurricane-and-tropical-storm-records/
I work on Hilton Head Island, in SC. The eye of Matthew stayed about 20 mi offshore as a Cat 2 and still did quite a bit of damage. Hoping that track continues to shift eastward.
And, yes, the media sensationalizes a lot of this. This will be the fourth year in a row we’ve had to evacuate, if it comes to that.