Author: WeatherPreppers

Here’s a quick 8 p.m. Charlotte-area forecast for Hurricane Florence, with more rain possibly on its way and the bad weather expected to last through Tuesday. At 3 p.m. Thursday, the National Weather Service put Charlotte, Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina under a flash-flood watch from Saturday morning to Tuesday morning.: When: While Florence’s wind speeds dropped to 100 mph Thursday afternoon, it remains a massive, powerful and widening storm. Bands of rainfall…

(This story was updated at 4:30 p.m. Eastern) Hurricane Florence’s “life threatening” storm surge arrived Thursday morning, breaching dunes and sending white water and sand washing across the only highway linking North Carolina’s barrier islands in the Outer Banks. NC 12 early Thursday, as waves generated by Hurricane Florence covered the highway with sand and surf. NCDOT The North Carolina Department of Transportation closed N.C. Highway 12 shortly after 1 p.m. between Hatteras Village and…

Sandbags stood guard at the front door of Sam’s Corner, home of “beach burgers” and “World Famous Hot Dogs.” Next door, workers hauled away heavy arcade machines. Across the street, a sheriff’s deputy enforced the “closed” sign at the Garden City pier. Twenty-four hours before Hurricane Florence’s anticipated landfall along South Carolina’s coast, the Garden City community was mostly emptied out. “We’re moving out,” Georgie Martin, owner of Gigi’s Grill and the Garden City Pavilion…