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Sounds like they have well over 100 bodies that have not been identified etc and they are only adding to the death toll when they do ID and notify next of kin. A guy on the hunting forum for NC I am on said they think the actual number will be much higher....a lot of people tried to flee in the vehicles and got caught in the flooding and washed away etc and it will be weeks or month before they find all the victims.

Makes you wonder how many times this happened and the people did not get out of the way etc....fear the deaths are gonna creep up for day as they get into areas totally cut off right now.

After a few days of no power you wont want to go into a grocery store... upside for the SC/NC powerless is at least its not in the 80-90's everyday for the next few days. Folks down in GA/FL will be without power for a week in the humid hot weather.

This is bad bad bad

Confirmed tornado on ground north of Rocky Mount NC...

For NC its the F names, Fran, Floyd, Florence.

Pretty sure this is unprecedented

Well then....

Apparently the dam is overtopping and eroding the foundation of the dam....

Charlotte already gusting over 50.... 27 05:52 E 25 G 52 3.00 Rain and Breezy BKN016 OVC024 75.9 71.1 85% 76 29.46 998.1 0.05

Its also not really moving N or NNW yet either, and every hr it doesnt it gets 30 miles further into areas that were not expecting what they are about to get...if it does not really start to get captured soon it could get really close to Charlotte in 4-5 hrs....

Run this loop is about to be lights out for most of western and central SC.... https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-Carolinas-13-24-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=data

So that would be pretty impressive....Valdosta 102 gusting 133 https://x.com/DavidKarnes3/status/1839528444440301678

I was in the SW eye of Isabel and the pressure was 970mb and peak wind gust for the event was 51 mph....though on the NE side of the huge eye they got absolutely hammered with gust into the 80-90 range at the same time...but in our case the pressure did not indicate our winds, in Fran for instance our pressure never got close to 970 but we gusted to 110..