Here come the hurricanes!

Futbalfantic said:
Rain and wind are starting in Charlotte now. It is insane how many people are still on the road. I presume going to/from work but it looks like 2-3 times as many people as a normal weekend
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Probably out looking for last minute milk sandwiches before the storm hits!
 
iwaxmyjimmy said:
Number 2 ones? Lol Made 40 ballyhoo rigs with skirts and 15 king rigs today just watching movies and drinking beer. Still need to make a bunch of naked rigs. Her dad is trying to get me hooked up on my first wahoo this year. We know his boats are still good, so might as well use them.

Side note: I’ve learned more about boat engines than I’ve wanted to lately, but made me look like a hero just doing basic stuff. I swear the plugs on one boat had a 1/4” gap. And their 16 ft bay boat got swamped by a sport fisher hauling ass through there. Luckily I’ve drowned enough engines to know how to get the water out of them.
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I’m sure I do. I have a tackle box dedicated to crimps, wire, springs, etc for building rigs. I didn’t take the boat off shore last year or this year, so now it’s time to start getting ready with some new rigs.
 
GONOVRIT said:
Did anyone see the weather channel reporter resisting the wind and 2 people walked behind him like there wasn’t any wind?:lol: I think it was in Wilmington.
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I was watching that live. I told my wife they’re gonna eat this guy alive. I could just see the memes pouring in.
 
Between what Jake is saying about New Bern not being quite that bad, and seeing that video, I’m thinking the media is hyping this thing up quite a bit.

They did that 2 years ago when Matthew hit the coast. I realize that was bad, and the flooding was really bad, but I talked to some people that said it was a bit more localized than the news made out and that while it was bad, it was not as bad as the news portrayed.

Think about what gets more ratings:

“I can barley stand in the wind, everything is under water north of here and we have 10 confirmed deaths with the worst of the storm still yet to come!”

Or

“Well we have lots of wind and rain, but it’s not as bad as we thought. You can see to my left people walking by, they shouldn’t be out but they are. In all this storm has weakened quite a bit but we expect to see more rain coming in later”

They gotta hype it up and add drama to everything these days.
I’m in no way downplaying this though, I realize some areas were hit hard and some folks lost their lives and serious property. Just saying the media likes to make things wayyyy worse than they are.

Side note: calm with hardly any wind and no rain currently in Trinity.
 
Futbalfantic said:
Rain and wind are starting in Charlotte now. It is insane how many people are still on the road. I presume going to/from work but it looks like 2-3 times as many people as a normal weekend
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We left out at 730 headed to Clemson to enjoy the ball game.

85 traffic was way down.

78 sunny and breezy
 
77GreenMachine said:
Between what Jake is saying about New Bern not being quite that bad, and seeing that video, I’m thinking the media is hyping this thing up quite a bit.
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Well, the headline is "downtown New Bern is completely under water!" The photos showed about a foot of water in the street. If you've ever been to New Bern, you'd know they have high water marks on buildings with the dates of the storms. Some of them are 4-5' high.

If they don't drum it up, you might change the channel, and there goes their ratings. But then the anchors wonder why nobody heeded their warnings to stay inside....
 
Yeah I saw one that said “Provision Co in Southport totally under water” and you watch the video and it’s about 2-3’ deep around the building.

That’s not “totally under water” to me. Provision company was way worse during Matthew.
 
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We've only gotten 2" of rain so far.
 
Did some stuff this morning, and told the wife that we would likely need to limit the septic tank use because the yard might pond over the septic field today. Clearly I hadn't explained myself well. I came home and she had done 3 loads of laundry, ran the dishwasher, cleaned the dishes in the sink, and took a shower.
 
Fabrik8 said:
Did some stuff this morning, and told the wife that we would likely need to limit the septic tank use because the yard might pond over the septic field today. Clearly I hadn't explained myself well. I came home and she had done 3 loads of laundry, ran the dishwasher, cleaned the dishes in the sink, and took a shower.
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I say this all the time. My wife thinks it is just flushing the toilet.
 
Fabrik8 said:
Did some stuff this morning, and told the wife that we would likely need to limit the septic tank use because the yard might pond over the septic field today. Clearly I hadn't explained myself well. I came home and she had done 3 loads of laundry, ran the dishwasher, cleaned the dishes in the sink, and took a shower.
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I hear you on that. Our septic is a low pressure system, so we need power to pump water from the second tank to the drain field.
 
VortecJeep said:
I hear you on that. Our septic is a low pressure system, so we need power to pump water from the second tank to the drain field.
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My neighbor across the street has a setup like that. I thought most of his property/septic and garage were going to flood, but not sure anymore with the lower rate of rainfall they're now predicting. We have a driveway culvert that is a bottleneck with heavy rain, and two of the neighboring properties largely drain into ours.

BrianGreen said:
I say this all the time. My wife thinks it is just flushing the toilet.
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Funny you should mention that, because that's exactly what my wife said after our discussion when I came home. I was pretty puzzled about that one, but she's never lived anywhere with a septic system before this so that prob explains it.

I'll also add the awesome text conversation at 7PM between my wife and her millennial-stereotype coworker. It started with "The power in my apartment is off, what do I do?", and eventually ended with "Okay, I'll go to Target and WalMart and try to find a flashlight". I had to open a bottle of wine to calm down my wife after 15 minutes of her ranting about people's inability to act or think like a grown-ass adult human being. That was the redeemer for the septic tank headscratcher.
 
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Didn't take long for the Low Life, Non Working residents in Wilmington, to Crash & Loot their Family Dollar Store! And right across from where Charlotte's Channel 9 was filming. Then a Whole Crowd formed & pretty much told the Black Reporter, to get the Hell Out! Family Dollar said they Wouldn't prosecute, just leave them be. Guess that's the Only customers FD gets in that store. :shaking:
 
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