Currently scared to death but like you said a lot can change. I just hope everyone stays safe and the damage is minimal - fingers crossed.

survived, but this storm looks much more potentially devastating

wonder of Hair Twitler will toss us paper towels afterwards

She hated her name. Stay safe!

(I’m in Winston-Salem NC and don’t worry so much but prepare a lot. Hurricane Hugo hit us hard, and they say this is a very similar but possibly stronger one)

Here’s to the smile. My Mother’s middle name is Wilma. After Hurricane Wilma hit the Florida Keys quite a number of years ago, Mom and I made our annual trek to the center of the Keys. Mom came from Germany. She handed her passport to the agent, and he said that if her name really was Wilma she could not come back in. He said the last visit was awful enough.

My mother hated her name and my father never called her by it, which makes it sort of awkward. She even threatened my sister and me that she'd disown us if we ever named a kid after her.

Stay safe!

My Mom gave me the name as her only sister’s name. She did not like her sister, she always maintained, but loved the name.

I should probably call in the morning. Are either of those areas in the storm's path?

Jacksonville is closer to the coast - at this point, we are all in the target range here in NC.

I'll give my sister a call in the morning. She's in Jacksonville. Future ex will call his sisters. They're in the Raleigh area.

And stay safe, all our DUers in the path.

They are in the outlying path, but then we don’t know exactly what wil happen. Friday will be their rough day.

I believe anything is possible now weather wise. Best wishes to those in the path.

We're reluctantly canceling our trip to North Myrtle Beach. At least us dumb tourists won't be adding to the problems..

Take care.

This is not the best of times for having company in Myrtle Beach. It’s mandatorily evacuated, I’ sure of it.

I'm near Raleigh which is about 2 hours inland from the coast. The forecast looks bad but a lot of times things end up not being as bad as they say it will, especially this far out. I remember the "Storm of the Century" a few years back that was supposed to devastate New York. That said, if the forecast turns out to be accurate then we are going to have some big problems here. We've had a lot of rain over the past few weeks and the ground is already saturated. They are saying that it might even stall out over central NC for over a day which could be catastrophic. 10 inches of rain on what we've already had will cause a lot of trees to fall down. I remember Fran in 96 which was pretty bad but this one has the potential to be much worse.

And they'll be dropped on your doorstep by Wednesday

Stay safe, and if you need some higher ground to visit, let me know.

-app

Even far from the coast here in Winston a hurricane such as this one could be fierce. In high winds a few of my smaller flower pots often end up in the neighbor's yard. Time for me to round them up before they go airborne.

Good wishes for everyone in the path of this hurricane.

I'm 200 miles inland from Wilmington along the predicted path and my wife just called from the local mini-Walmart. The parking lot is full and lots of the usual suspect items were in short supply.

so we went to smaller stores and are now all set.

I don't remember Fran, I wasn't here then. I'm scared and thinking Florence will be the worst storm in my life.