URI and Hurricane Florence

[DarthGrumpy]

News reports indicate rip tides along the Carolinas' coastline are already strong. From 12 pm today on, UNC Wilmington cancelled classes until further notice and initiated a voluntary student evacuation. Not that UNC by the Sea students are known to require formal permission, but a day+ may be quite social before the weather potentially gets hairier late Wednesday or as currently forecast for Thursday or even Friday.

A tad bit to the west, power outages, wind damage, and very heavy rain occurred as Typhoon Mangkhut (Pacific hurricane) generally skirted the US territory Guam, the US commonwealth Marianas Islands, and their respective US military bases. Aside from worst hit Rota and Guam, the other islands apparently lucked out a little as Manghkut avoided direct landfall and prior 100+ mph winds decreased to only 80+.

I saw that East Carolina is shutting down at Noon on Tuesday through the rest of the week while Coastal Carolina (SC) has begun voluntary evacuations, too. Took a quick look at V Tech and they even have a link for updates. The forecast is for 12" to 24" inches of rain all in the Piedmont and Appalachians all the way from the Ashville NC region up through West Virginia. This could be one heck of a mess.

 

[CL82]

A navy frigate just put in at the warfs at Fort Trumball, New
London.

Post a picture if you can? That would be cool to see.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Post a picture if you can? That would be cool to see.

USS Truxtun Giuded Missle Destroyer not a Frigate

 

[CL82]

USS Truxton Giuded Missle Destroyer not a Frigate

Nice! Looks to be a Arleigh Burke class destroyer. Those are the destroyers with huge electrical capacity so that they could have laser/energy weapons on them.

 

[Drew]

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Nice! Looks to be a Arleigh Burke class destroyer. Those are the destroyers with huge electrical capacity so that they could have laser/energy weapons on them.

That's what it is. Seems we have a lot of these guys.

 

[Exit 4]

Nice! Looks to be a Arleigh Burke class destroyer. Those are the destroyers with huge electrical capacity so that they could have laser/energy weapons on them.

Yes, because to fight laser cats you need your own lasers of course.

 

[CL82]

Yes, because to fight laser cats you need your own lasers of course.

For the record that looks like a hypno-cat in the lower right.

 

[huskymedic]

We should be in the clear for Saturday > interest in Florence moves to other so named death storm thread: