My rain guage maxed out too but from the forecasts (and seeing the
flooding on the ground) I'd guess we had about 10". Unfortunately a lot
more rain fell inland and those poor folks in Lumberton, NC on the
Lumber River (not far from here) are dealing with severe flooding that
was not at all expected. Many people have had to be rescued by boat.
We pass through Lumberton on out trips north and also cross the Lumber
River. To see it in its normal condition you would not expect it to be
a flood maker.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/11/2016 1:10 PM, ChrisB wrote:
Yes, I’m glad that all is well with you, Chuck and Charlie.
Chris
On 11 Oct 2016, at 17:51, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Glad to hear a good report, Charlie.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 10/11/2016 11:44 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
We did well on Daniel Island. No damage to the house and only a bunch of
sticks, small limbs and leaves to pick up. We were lucky with the storm
surge. My neighbor stayed home for the storm and at the height of the it
crawled back to the edge of the salt marsh to check the water height. At
1:30am it should have been dead low tide but the water level as at full
high tide mark, so about 5' storm surge and we are three miles in from
front beach. My rain gauge maxed out at 8" so not sure how much rain we
had. Downtown Charleston had plenty of flooding as it always does but was
indeed lucky the worst came at low tide. The area to the south of us
(Edisto, Beaufort, Hilton Head) got it far worse than us.
Charlie
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm a bit over 4 miles from the beach. AFAIK the eyewall passed over us.
Fortunately, it was only Cat 1 at that time and not the Cat 2 expected when
it was predicted to be further away. This was the 2nd Cat 1 where I've
been in the eye (first on Long Island). But I can tell you that being 35
miles away from a Cat 4 is a hell of a lot worse (Andrew 1992). :-)
I was protected by my hurricane panels but I'm not aware of any of my
neighbors who didn't have them getting impact damage from debris. There
are, however, a couple of houses which sustained roof and other damage from
falling pine trees and a couple where the damage was limited to fences. We
have a large, dead pine tree in a wetland area not too far from the house
and I was concerned it might decide to topple. The tree is still standing
but large sheets of its bark are now in my yard.
But even during Andrew in Florida in 1992 I think we were only without
power for about 3 hours. 32 hours is enough for me to think about getting
a portable generator as some of my neighbors already have.
ps: Thanks for your concern, Jim. I'm copying this to the list as my
"I'm OK report"
Chuck Norcutt
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