North Carolina braces for Florence’s devastating deluge

By artappraiser on Sat, 09/15/2018 - 11:09pm |

Incredible.

“The storm is going to dump about 18 trillion gallons of water, which is about the volume of the Chesapeake Bay, or enough to cover the state of Texas in 4 inches of water. “We’re only about one-third of the way through this.” https://t.co/a928UpLSTI
— Andrew deGrandpre (@adegrandpre) September 16, 2018

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Hurricane Florence: Storm ‘Has Never Been More Dangerous’

By David Zucchino, Alan Blinder and Jack Healy @ NYTimes.com, Sept. 16, with video

WILMINGTON, N.C. — North Carolina confronted a spiraling statewide crisis on Sunday as Tropical Depression Florence slowly ravaged the region, flooding cities, endangering communities from the coastline to the rugged mountains, and requiring well more than 1,000 rescues.

Sunday, it seemed, was when the storm system that had stalked the South for days — first as a hurricane, then as a tropical storm and eventually as a tropical depression — showed its full power with staggering scope. The death toll from the storm rose to at least 16 in North and South Carolina, where roads were treacherous and even the most stately trees were falling.

“It’s horrible,” said Mitch Colvin, the mayor of Fayetteville, N.C., in the eastern part of the state, where the rising Cape Fear River was expected to swamp bridges and cut his city in two in the next few days. “Things are deteriorating,” he said.

The perils stretched across North Carolina’s more than 500-mile width [....]

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 12:27am

me, me, me:

Belongs in the pool report hall of fame https://t.co/1U6j60aRTj
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) September 19, 2018

begs the question of whether the visit during Maria to Puerto Rico was really "they'll never be brand Trump customers, so why should I care that much?" as opposed to traditional racism or even xenophobia. Don't know why it took me so long, but I got this light bulb go on right now: MAGA = there is only one image of America and Trumpworld pegs it perfectly. It's like Walt Disney gone wild and bad.

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 1:39pm

more stuff about what the toddler is up to in NC:

what a pool report from @MarkLandler pic.twitter.com/XeFtW6gQYa
— Emily Cochrane (@ESCochrane) September 19, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 2:29pm

more, Maggie basically going 'toldja we weren't making this shit up"

A local reporter experiencing the president up close for the first time —-> https://t.co/WqOUTON2aW
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 19, 2018

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/19/2018 - 7:31pm

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via the Tweet, this link is free premium National Journal content til 12/17:

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