(09-06-2017, 12:47 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: The projected track of this storm doesn't look good right now.  At this point it's looking like another Mathew.

Which is exactly what we don't want up here. Matthew did a lot of damage as far inland as we are when the eyewall was 200+ miles southeast of us, not to mention when he got closer. My husband couldn't leave his workplace that weekend in Fayetteville because of the flooding. We live about 55-60 miles west of where he works and there was a lot of damage here, too. And that was a small storm compared to this one. 

Like FBT said, it's not about the flooding where our house is, it would take A LOT of rain for that to happen- we're talking Naoh's Ark type water. For us it's the trees we're surrounded by. Very large and very old trees. They handled Matthew well enough but anything more than that for a period of time and I don't know what will happen. Flooding will be a problem just up the road and in town. We have the Cape Fear River Basin and the Lumbee River Basin that runs around here as well as so many creeks it's unreal. Those are what wreaked havoc last year as well as power outages from the wind snapping power lines or trees landing on them.

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