2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

I just looked at the beach cam for Folly Beach. It's passed, the sun in shining, and people are turning back out. The beach looks like crap, but it's all over.
There is something about my area that the dang things always seen to hit when it's dark.

 

Nobody messes with Pedro. He’d hit ‘em with a billboard.

 

If you've never been to South of the Border, you just don't know.

 

The whole time we lived in North Carolina, I was waiting for that huge blast wave coming up from Dillon because I was certain some Yankee would walk into the South of the Border fireworks store with a lit cigarette. Don't look now, but Pedro's flying overhead!

 

TWC just showed Jim Cantore, who is in Wrightsville Beach, standing in the midst of the storm, feet apart, barely able to look at the camera.

This shot, IMO, is just not necessary anymore. Putting someone out in the middle of it accomplishes exactly what?

Back on topic ... life in the Carolinas, folks ...

 

Up here in Fairfax County, Va., and just went out to nab some breakfast to bring back to the hotel. Raining pretty heavily, but not much wind. We had to postpone the second round of our Amateur championship because there's just no way we can get out and play today, and the U.S. Women's Amateur across the Potomac over at Woodmont did the same. I'm confident we both made the right decisions. Just means I'm stuck up here for an extra day, but I could probably use a distraction-free day to power through some work, so it's not such a bad thing.

 

He was in my town last summer. I checked out a couple of his shoots. They were basically fraudulent. I know he does stand in the storm, but I watched him, on a fairly calm pre-day, stand in front of a place where waves always break to get that shot of water action, when the water was otherwise calm. He also got a LOT of facts wrong about my town/area. So, did NO homework.

 

A friend with a beach house on Oak Island sent me some drone video of the island this morning. Looks like the houses held up well. Her house looks undamaged. Sand and property not attached to land, like cars, did some traveling.

 

HOLY CRAP! I was just joking and apparently the huge explosion in Beirut today (you have to see the video to believe it) was a fireworks storage facility that caught fire. Jesus H. Christ!

 

That happened just down the interstate from me last year.

 

There's no Goddamned way what exploded in Beirut were fireworks.