A Look at Hurricane Season 47 Days Away and Inland Flooding Dangers........Carolinas, Virginia and Most of the Hurricane Coast....
Love History............
..........Love Maps.
Small fast post.
Carolinas and Virginia.
Nice map of early settlers.
Note they all traveled the rivers.
They farmed in the river valleys.
They all dealt with new world storms..
As a young child in Miami when I first learned about the early colonization of America on Roanoke Island and the famous Virginia Dare who was born here but disappeared with the colony.... my first thought was "well yeah a hurricane probably went through there and everyone drowned" because I'm from Miami. Blaming the "Indians" seemed stupid, I didn't know much about plagues then, but I did know hurricanes.
I took a look at Google with it's everyready bunny AI to see what it'd have to say:
Note phrase "not the primary reason"......
.....oh........so it could be part of the reason?
Map of River Valleys.
Map of where people live.
Map of places that flood in a hurricane.
(note up by French Broad = Asheville)
Below is Virgnia.
I know not in geographical order.
People remember Camille for Pass Christian.
They forget it flooded Virginia where many died.
My beautiful New Bern after Florence.
Recently Helend.
This blog post was brought to you by the "Learn about Inland Flooding Threats this Hurricane Season" and BobbiStorm as all the color, drama, glory of hurricanes is always shown as it makes landfall at the evacuated beaches where every photo journalist, storm chaser and weather channel specialists are set up.....and yet once it punches inland and the river valleys flood fast the death toll climbs horrifically. Few stick around and ride through the small towns or take video from a helicopter but the death toll in the Carolinas and often Virginia is always high as all the towns are built in the river valleys as rivers were the method of transportation back in the day ....especially for farmers to get their produce out and even more so as the rich fertile river valley provided the best growing scenarios to bring forth a large harvest. Unless a hurricane hit during harvest time. NC Government JUST finished putting together relief bill last month for Helene that hit last hurricane season :(
Some links to share with friends ... please share.
(not just Carolinas..........map from site above)
But first know your dangers.........
...especially if you are new to the area.
I recently read an article about a Rabbi who was sent to work in the Pensacola area of Florida and he grew up in Sweden. I thought: "wow imagine moving there and seeing the warm tropical colors of the Gulf and the beaches and.........." suddenly it hit me "hurricanes!!! OMG that's not something you see in Sweden often."
Indeed he and his wife and family moved there just before Hurricane Michael!
I only know this as one of my kids was looking to go up there for Passover and was checking out the local Chabad to see if they had a Seder and he showed me this story. Welcome to Florida! Indeed.
If you are moving to Florida or Texas or the Carolinas.............be sure you are aware of our local Hurricane Season and it's tricky, lesser known "inland flooding" dangers especially if you live anywhere near a river or a creek!
Don't be blinded by a hurricane after you move to your new home in paradise !!
As for me.......enjoying the cool beautiful temperatures in Raleigh today and knowing the Hurricane Season is only 47 days away.... my mind is on hurricanes, the blog and satellite imagery. When Passover is over I'll dig in with more regular blogs and be back to my normal blogging!
Sweet Tropical Dreams,
BobbiStorm
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Again not as glamorous as landfall at the beach..
Deadly. Destructive.
posted by BobbiStorm @ 9:14 AM
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