Hurricane Florence

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This is a bad situation for North Carolina and South Carolina potentially, but it really is not going to affect the Knoxville area. Our game should be in no danger, but others over the mountains and towards the Carolina coast is a entire other thing. Virginia's southeast coastline also. South Carolina northern coastline needs to be on alert as well, although right now it looks like north car-Virginia coastlines are under the gun more at this time. It is a serious situation for them folks, but folks worried about our game shouldn't be. GBO!!!!
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Talked to a meteorologist friend of mine and there are limited weather worries in Knoxville at this time for Saturday.

There are a lot of people in the Eastern 2/3 of NC and the Southern half of Virginia whose life will be drastically altered over the next 96-120 hours. NC, unlike FL, does not have the infrastructure in place for a Cat 4 Hurricane (There are a lot of trees in NC compared to FL).
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This, I keep up with weather and know a lot of weather people myself. Your friend is spot on with the ereas that are going to be under the gun. Looks like landfall around Wilmington, Nc right now and areas just to the north of that along the coast could be very rough. GBO!!!!!!
 
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roosterjbh said:
This post might make semi sense if there were players complaining at all.
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You asked them? Any reason they would talk to you about what they think of muddy fields? I seem to recall a few SEC players expressing disgust about Neyland's field 2 or so years ago, fans too. RGII objected to sloppy field conditions contributing to his injury so complaints do get expressed. No snideness was called for or needed.
 
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hopefully it fizzles out like all the so called historical blizzards that were forecasted by TWC
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
We have infrastructure for a Cat 4 hurricane? Such as?
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I poorly worded that. NC has a lot more trees (which will be a huge problem for outages), you have more bodies of water flowing towards the coast which will enhance the flooding, you have mountains surrounding NC and VA on two sides which will shunt more rain into those 2 states. In addition, FL just has more experience dealing with hurricanes and the construction in those areas (especially just inland) represents that.
 
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Bless you for the well-wishes for those who surely are going to need it. For worse things there is something called a hypercane. I hope no one alive or dead ever experience one. We might if powers that be continue to ignore the reality of global warming and stubbornly legislate dumping increasing waste products into water ways and the sea. Thus warming the oceans even further. We even got plastic islands twice the size of Texas floating between the USA and Japan. A perfect themo booster. Earth hasn't produced any hypercanes since man walked the Earth but geological records show they once occurred. Hugo would just be a peeble ripple compared to those things.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Bless you for the well-wishes for those who surely are going to need it. For worse things there is something called a hypercane. I hope no one alive or dead ever experience one. We might if powers that be continue to ignore the reality of global warming and stubbornly legislate dumping increasing waste products into water ways and the sea. Thus warming the oceans even further. We even got plastic islands twice the size of Texas floating between the USA and Japan. A perfect themo booster. Earth hasn't produced any hypercanes since man walked the Earth but geological records show they once occurred. Hugo would just be a peeble ripple compared to those things.
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No proof that Earth ever produced a hyper cane. It’s simply a theory at this point. Hypercane - Wikipedia
 
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davethevol said:
No proof that Earth ever produced a hyper cane. It’s simply a theory at this point. Hypercane - Wikipedia
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You might be right. However, one of the conditions for a hypercane to be born is an asteroid strike. The Chicxulub strike, indications are that not only a massive tsunami occurred but the heated air induced a hypercane that circled the Earth twice at least. As for other studies, my lazy hunting via WWW can't locate what I read about geological evidence of past hypercanes 5-6 years back.. In truth what I did find contradicts my earlier claim. The only thing remotely supporting that claim is computer models implying the possibility if warming reaches a certain point.
 
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ButchPlz said:
Latest cone barely reaches my area. The southward turn is interesting.
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Something to keep in mind is that the cone is used to determine where the center of the storm could go. You can still get hit hard outside of the cone. Also, a 1/3rd of the time the center goes outside of the cone.
 
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Vol knight said:
Something to keep in mind is that the cone is used to determine where the center of the storm could go. You can still get hit hard outside of the cone. Also, a 1/3rd of the time the center goes outside of the cone.
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Yep, we aren't clear at all.

We aren't getting slammed like the coast but the rainfall if it comes our way will create some major issues because it's so wet already.
 
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I sure hope that this hurricane doesn't stall near the coast. If it does, areas in and around Wilmington will likely be under water.
 
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Vol knight said:
I sure hope that this hurricane doesn't stall near the coast. If it does, areas in and around Wilmington will likely be under water.
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That's what happened here with Harvey last year. We were on the dirty side of the storm. It actually circled back into the Gulf twice, refueled, and just kept dumping rain on us.
 
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They are showing that model hanging out on the coast now. That would be devastating. Some places getting sustained hurricane force winds for 2-3 days.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Bless you for the well-wishes for those who surely are going to need it. For worse things there is something called a hypercane. I hope no one alive or dead ever experience one. We might if powers that be continue to ignore the reality of global warming and stubbornly legislate dumping increasing waste products into water ways and the sea. Thus warming the oceans even further. We even got plastic islands twice the size of Texas floating between the USA and Japan. A perfect themo booster. Earth hasn't produced any hypercanes since man walked the Earth but geological records show they once occurred. Hugo would just be a peeble ripple compared to those things.
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There have been horrible storms since the beginning of man, probably before it. No need to politicize it. There wasn’t a hurricane that made landfall on the US mainland for a long time, nearly a decade, not too long ago. I don’t think we are creating more violent storms, we just have the ability to recognize them moreso than we did in the past. That goes for tornadoes and other violent events .
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
There have been horrible storms since the beginning of man, probably before it. No need to politicize it. There wasn’t a hurricane that made landfall on the US mainland for a long time, nearly a decade, not too long ago. I don’t think we are creating more violent storms, we just have the ability to recognize them moreso than we did in the past. That goes for tornadoes and other violent events .
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The US is also one of, if not the only, country to actually meet its pollution/greenhouse reduction goals, and that is under this administration. If you want to pin ocean temperatures on humans, blame goes to Asia and Europe, neither of which have a majority of countries meeting their obligations.
 
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508mikey said:
yep all Im seeing >>>
Saturday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86.
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There's so much uncertainty right now in the track of this storm that the percentages would naturally be lower. As forecasts become more accurate and clear as to the track and intensity, those percentages will be updated accordingly.
 
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This thing is now looking to stall outside of Wilmington and make a SW turn somewhere between Charleston and Myrtle Beach. From a very selfish standpoint this is extremely bad for me and the wife. This place will be wrecked if we’re on the North side of this storm. The storm surge is already predicted at 6-9 feet and will only get worse if it comes this way. I don’t wish anything bad for anyone, but we as family could really use a break right now. I’m sure many others could as well. Hitting the road in the morning . Getting the hell out of dodge, although I really want to see this thing.
 
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