Seems more like a best case scenario given the dire predictions. That's not a slam on the predictions, I don't think anybody (or, well, most people) we doing it simply to be alarmist, but the mayor of Tampa straight up said if you stay, you'll die. Safe to say nothing approaching that level of apocalypse occurred...
'twas a joke
Yes. Yes, I get that.
As it is in Lake Norman area. Gorgeous Fall day.
Ah, the Sea Island Hurricane. I have a family story of a relative who was being buried in the churchyard of the Baptist Church of Beaufort while the storm clouds were moving in. The dates on his headstone are consistent with the timeline. It's hard to imagine that as recently as 70 years ago, the sea islands of Beaufort County were largely uninhabited, and the inhabitants were mostly black subsistence farmers. Hilton Head, Daufuskie, Fripp, Harbor Island, St. Helena Island -- all of them would be unrecognizable today. And if anyone is vacationing in that area, I strongly recommend a visit to Penn Center. Its role in the Civil Rights Movement is mostly unknown.Aficionados of Weather History might find this interesting...
"On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane's long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the political, economic, and social conditions of Jim Crow were inextricable from its environmental dimensions.
This narrative history of a monumental disaster and its aftermath uncovers how Black workers and politicians, white landowners and former enslavers, northern interlocutors and humanitarians all met on the flooded ground of the coast and fought to realize very different visions for the region's future. Through a telescoping series of narratives in which no one's actions were ever fully triumphant or utterly futile, Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South (UNC Press, 2022) explores with nuance this painful and contradictory history and shows how environmental change, political repression, and communal traditions of resistance, survival, and care converged.
Caroline Grego is assistant professor of history at Queens University of Charlotte."
Looks like beautiful fall weather on tap in central NC for the next week to ten days. Highs in the 60s and 70s, lows in the 30s and 40s. Beautiful outside in the middle of the day; cool and crisp in the evenings and mornings. My favorite weather season of the year, personally.
Taiwan has an unbelievably sophisticated and well-run civil response apparatus. While I'm sure we would help them with anything they need, I'm very confident they've got it under control.
