Yah, Pat Robertson.....thanks couldn’t remember his name....

The storm is expected to meander in the area for days, leaving large swaths of the Carolinas vulnerable to massive flooding. Most hurricane deaths are from drowning, not from the wind.

from recent heavy rains, and that probably includes mountain soils in various areas. When we were looking for property up there, I had to rule out a lot of areas in mountain counties due to vulnerability to earth movement and debris flows. I notice a state of emergency is being declared in one county that normally receives a lot of rain, and more wouldn't be surprising.

The coast has been getting soaked over the past several weeks, as have some of the more northern areas. Meanwhile, here along the SC-GA border, most places have been bone-dry. A lot of us haven't seen much, if any rain for at least a month, and not much before that. Where I'm at, we're only expecting about 4" or so, depending on what this thing does once it moves back into the state. It looks like it's going to head up toward Greenville/Asheville, which have been pretty wet lately. It's unfortunate, because we could handle all the rain a little better here than they could.

That's beautiful country, and how strange that you've had such a dry summer. We're in the NW Georgia Piedmont and have had the rain we'd love to have every year, but no longer do. We hit a dry spot over the past couple of weeks, but not like you.

I've always loved what rain does for the land and never, ever complained at forecasts. That said, I'm starting to feel a little cautious about what I wish for even as I do. Even with 2" downpours becoming normal, there was a strange event close by a few weeks ago.

We were driving home on a dry, sunny highway from the market when we started crossing runoffs of very muddy water flowing down from landscaped properties uphill on the right -- where nothing remotely like that'd never happened before. We then turned down another road and hit several very large puddles where water never collects -- the rain had literally come down too heavy for the mostly unobstructed water to run off yet. But the rain was over. We drove out of there onto our road, which was barely damp. Mercifully, because our property is a little hill, mostly slopes on all sides.

Wishing you the rain you need. A slow moving, mostly spent system might be very nice. Hope so.

The wind speed is less than originally predicted but that doesn't mean the storm will cause less damage. The problem is that it is very large, very slow- moving, and contains an enormous amount of rain. If a CAT2 hurricane parks itself over an area for an extended period of time the wind damage could be as bad as if it were a CAT3 because buildings might be designed to withstand high winds for a short time but not days. The real damage will be from water - flooding, especially flash flooding.

Especially now that these storms linger and rain never stops. The flooding could be severe.

I lived through a CAT 2, Irma, and was glad I dodged Andrew (5). CAT. 2 was scary enough.

Yes, trump will take credit and Pat Robertson will definitely take credit.

It will somehow become all about him, no matter what.

It's going to kill people and it's going to cause billions in damage.

Please if you're in the affected areas prepare and be safe.

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT!!

That's how megalomaniacs operate.

And he'll blame Obama and Hillary