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They are saying Hurricane Florence will be the biggest ever to hit the east coast of the States, expecting up to 2.5 feet of rain, and winds up to 140 mph. South Carolina expecting the worst of it with storm surge up to 12 feet blowing inland.
The States gets some of the worst storms in the world by far. We usually just get the tail end of their storms where I am, thank God.
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We're very lucky where we are, really. Last few years there have been a couple of floods although nowt major but we don't get the extremes of weather that other places around the world get. It gets warm, it gets chilly, it gets wet, it gets windy but that's about it. Boring but safe and I'm sure the folk who live in hurricane/earthquake/flood etc countries would take that in a heartbeat.
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we were in myrtle beach in april and noticed how a lot of houses were built on concrete stilts as it were where as lot of the historic houses are actually built on their own private hillOriginally Posted by Cannylad
They are saying Hurricane Florence will be the biggest ever to hit the east coast of the States, expecting up to 2.5 feet of rain, and winds up to 140 mph. South Carolina expecting the worst of it with storm surge up to 12 feet blowing inland.
The States gets some of the worst storms in the world by far. We usually just get the tail end of their storms where I am, thank God.
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Yes, you're right about that, they also lift the older houses and sit them on top of stilts. Any windows and doors at ground level are designed to collapse when hit by storm surges and offer no resistance, the water then just runs under the house without washing them away. The stilts are really piles that are driven deep underground.
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Doesn't look great for the Carolina's.
It was saying on the radio that mandatory evacuation has been enforced in North Carolina
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