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Insurance prices along the Carolina shore are also going through the roof, though. My cousin had to give up his dream house in Topsail because the insurance was set to more than double over a 3-year span - and he was in one of the few places of somewhat higher elevation AND on stilts.

That's a huge precursor event happening to the northeast of the main circulation. The rainfall is going to certainly increase overall impacts.

Newbie here, but what's up with that secondary vortex/circulation coming in from the northeast?!?

That's the unspoken (mostly) problem with disasters like this - the amount of trash that needs to be disposed of. Clean up creates a TREMENDOUS amount of garbage that has to do somewhere, and often in places without adequate facilities to deal with it. Not to mention the massive amount of garbage that gets pulled back into the sea to be spread out throughout the region. And think about it: they're going to be pulling nails and other hazards out of those beaches for years, especially those shallow bays.

I'm an amateur - how does one read this chart? Thanks in advance.

NWS in Mount Holly has confirmed EF-3 for the Mullica Hill tornado. https://twitter.com/nws_mountholly/status/1433567161742553090?s=21