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Originally posted by Bobby Vicious
Jimena is her name. I am tracking Fabian out here 125 mph winds could make landfall here on Thursday or Friday,seems unlikely at this point. Watch out Carolinas this is a mother fucker of a storm. Could easily replicate Hurricane Andrew. Is this your first hurricane Amp?
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Actually Andrew nailed So Fla, Hugo popped the Carolinas in '91... luckily the path that it took was largely unpopulated for most of its path, it was still a Cat 5 storm when it was nearly 250 miles inland. We had no power for 9 days and of course no one did anything to prepare, since the thought of a hurricane coming up like that was not something conceivable at the time.
I slept thru the whole thing and woke up to the deadest quiet I'd ever heard. Nothing electric was working most anywhere for a couple days. Gas lines in danger of leaking, you name it.
Interestingly enough I lived in New Orleans for 2 years and never even got close to a hurricane, but being in Charlotte (not even on the coast lol) got hammered with one.