2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

I sure hope you flew! The drive from Down East on I-40 is a lot longer and more tedious than it looks on a map. It's 420 miles from Wilmington to the Tennessee border. Hayesville and Murphy -- in the extreme southwestern corner of the state -- are actually northwest of my cabin in Georgia, but only about an hour away. I have to drive east to get to South Carolina.

 

410 miles door to door from my place in Tenn. to my place in NC. I can make it in 6:20 when traveling by myself because I stop once. Wife and/or mom will push it to 6:45-7:00.
I'm only on 40 between Asheville and Hickory. I drop down to Charlotte then pick up 74.

Even if I went 40 for some reason, I'd cut off at Greensboro and go down the Sanford, Bowies Creek, and Dunn, then pick it back up again. I haven't been through Raleigh in a decade.

 

Oh, and to add to the circuit, my wife is refereeing tonight in Kentucky and has matches tomorrow in Virginia.

Yeah, there is a reason we decided at the get-go not to have children or pets.

 

That is so cool ... the officiating part. Did not know that!

 

Yeah, wife has been a college and high school volleyball and basketball official for 20 years (after 15 years as a college head basketball coach at three universities) on top of being Dr. Driftwood university professor/dean.
She's done everything from some of the biggest D1 programs you can name to lower division national championship games in places like Minnesota and Kansas.

 

New invest in the Bay of Campeche bears watching for us Gulf Coasters.

Google Maps

 

Predicting a hurricane making landfall Wednesday afternoon at the Texas/Louisiana state line.

 

Oh, boy. Lake Charles took a 1-2 punch four years ago. That's about where the models having it coming in.

 

Holy cow, finished my tour of the southeast.

Two days, four states, nearly 1,000 miles, 4 1/2 hours of sleep, and a college football game in the middle of it.

 

Tampico, hello!

 

I lived about an hour north of Lake Charles for a couple of years. It is still in really bad shape.

 

Buenos dias. You're on the Lorenzo Rey Programa!