(September 23, 2018 at 6:57 am)Kit Wrote: I thought the hurricane petered out.
Yes and no. You cant base the damage solely on the category. Even though it went down to a 1 when it hit, it slowed down and hugged the coast with half of it over the ocean and slowly went south. That allowed it to suck more water up from the ocean and dump it on the land. Most damage and death from storms like this are from flooding.
NC and SC when you look at a map of the rivers, in both states, it looks like the spokes of a spider web going out to the ocean. There was still tons of damage in both states. The mere tropical storm that hit Texas this week also caused a lot of flooding.
My neighborhood got through it well for a couple of reasons. 1. We don't live in a flood prone area. 2. We were not on the outer Islands or inlets. 3. Our neighborhood is surrounded by big swaths of pine trees so by the time the wind hits us, it is broken up.
But other places, like Florence SC and Whiteville NC and New Burn NC and Snead's Ferry NC got pummeled and flooded severely. And do a google search of I-40 in NC. A good 60 miles of it was flooded, it still looks like a river in parts.
Categories only describe the wind speed, it is flooding that causes the most damage and death.
