Hurricane Florence from August 31 to September 19, 2018. This is a different kind of storm than a normal hurricane.

Fifteen years ago when I first participated in the EPA's New Source Review and opened the reality of the Climate Crisis as a concern for the USA; the mind set about the climate was that there was going to be more rain.

When the climate scientists of the IPCC compiled their work they predicted these storms. They aren't hurricanes and they are more than a thunderstorm. I look at where the USA is today and I can't help but think, "If they only listened, read and learned to take this seriously so long ago this storm would not even be known to us."

September 29,. 2018
By Dennis Merserereau

It’s been more than two weeks (click here) since Hurricane Florence made landfall and parts of the Carolinas are still dealing with flooding left behind by the storm. There are still some rivers in North Carolina and South Carolina reporting water levels at or above flood stage. The most severe flooding at the moment is in northeastern South Carolina, where the massive amount of water dumped by Florence is still winding its way downstream toward the Atlantic.

Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 14, 2018, slowing to an excruciating crawl once it moved inland. The storm barely moved faster than average walking speed for several days after coming ashore. Florence’s slow forward movement allowed bands of thunderstorms to train over the same areas for several days, leading to unprecedented freshwater flooding in North and South Carolinas, as well as flooding issues throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.


The chart to the right are the deaths due to Hurricane Florence.

Florence was the wettest tropical cyclone ever recorded in both North Carolina and South Carolina. Its rainfall and flooding easily surpassed the disaster unleashed by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999.  A wide swath of real estate saw more than a foot of rain from the storm. Large portions of southeastern North Carolina saw rainfall totals exceeding two feet, and a tiny area near Wilmington saw more than three feet of rain. This is the highest tropical cyclone-related rainfall total so far north in the United States. Such extreme totals are typically seen near the Gulf Coast....

On September 27, 2018 there were still people displaced from their homes.

Raleigh -  The death toll from Hurricane Florence (click here)  has increased again, nearly two weeks after the eye of the storm reached the Carolinas.

North Carolina Emergency Operations Center spokeswoman Sonja Bennett-Bellamy said Thursday that an 85-year-old man from New Hanover County died Tuesday. The man contracted an infection in a wound he received while cleaning up storm debris on his property. The death toll now stands at 48 deaths in three states, 37 of them in North Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper said Thursday that motorists still need to be on alert for high water even as rivers recede and more roads open.

Cooper says 1,500 people still remain in shelters. More than 550 people have enrolled in a program to stay in hotels while longer-term housing is arranged....