Weather Channel has sent Jim Cantore to Myrtle Beach...Storms in NC Now!

Somehow no one predicted that "Triangle NC Area" would have a "Pre-Ernesto" Rain Deluge.....it wasn't on any of the Weather Reports...local or national.

We here in the "Triangle" (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) have been hit will deluges of Rain from Thunderstorm alert from about 3:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m tonight. Some areas have already gotten 1-3 inches of ran from this newly erupted outbreak of thunderstorms and TD ERNESTO is still hundreds of miles AWAY!

So...if you put ERNESTO's rain on top of all this and you send in Cantore to Myrtle Beach then it would say from my years of watching "Weather Channel" that something BIG is AFOOT! :-( They only send Cantore IN for the BIG EVENTS....

Here in Charlotte there was an absolute deluge of rain for hours. I could barely drive home; the roads were all flooded. Right now there's a power outage in half the area. Wasn't Ernesto only supposed to come on Thursday? Why wasn't there a warning of this?

and monitoring the weather continuously. No one predicted this massive rain BEFORE Ernesto even had a chance of hitting.

Yet...here we are already being flooded and Ernesto just veered off Jacksonville into the Gulf Stream to strenghthen..(according to Weather Channel).

So, we here in NC are already drenched and will have to deal with more...

Governor Easly gave a big Presser this a.m. about how National Guard, etc were ready to rescue folks and we were thinking he was just coming out early to show he was prepared. I'm wondering what he knew that our weather service wasn't telling us! Like...did he know that NC would get hit by these deluges BEFORE "Ernesto" hit us with more flooding rains?

It looks you're getting hit with storms in advance of a cold front. That brown stuff is dry air.

The weaather service has said that the remnants of Ernesto would be caught into a cold front. Well, that's the one.

they didn't report that when we were at the NC Beach today....Luckily we got back before the worst hit.

Methinks the "Labor Day Business" is going to take a hit. :-(

I just sat dead center through twenty four hours of Ernesto in the Florida Keys and it didn't rain hard enough to fill up a decent puddle.

Check out KO's REALLY big NEWSCAST....

and had to put off "Hunk" review to the second broadcast. :D

for 6" rain widespread, with 10" localized amounts. As of tonight, one of the weather guys at AccuWeather is saying that Ernesto is leaving FL as a better organized storm than when it entered. Predicting pressure at landfall to be around 985 and that it will be stronger for us up north than down south with high winds all the way inland to I-95. We shall see how close he is to being right.

which already got flooded out with the last "TD" that went through...and reports earlier today said VA would be worse than NC...but we've got this "freak thunderstorm thing" going on and Ernesto only just left Jacksonville, Fla to go out over the Atlantic where the fears were it could strengthen...but then they were saying that it might not strengthen that much earlier today here in the weather reports in NC...and nationally.

Who the hell knows what's going on anymore. Max Mayfield is retiring and Santorum's "Weather Bill" meant that "Weather Channel" couldn't use the National Radar anymore it was to be exclusive use of "Accuweather" and other "Commercial" sites. I've noticed a deterioration in weather reporting since Katrina...but then I'm a weather watcher ...and might be more prone to noticing "nuances" of change than others....

All of us who live in "Hurricane Prone" areas have our radar constantly alerted and where I live "inland" in NC has been hard hit before by hurricanes that were devastating...so we who have been through them get a little panicked when we feel we aren't being given accurate info...compared to what we were used to..

I want more Stephanie Abrams, standing in a hurricane in a wet T-shirt!

what's the world coming to! Rita Cosby with her "throaty voice" might replace Jim Cantore, too! Maybe she can hook up with the latest pedophile she has in her radar. :D

My husband and I are supposed to drive down there Friday morning with 3 sighthounds, a four year old and a trailer in tow to do a hound coursing demo at an SCA event. We've been watching the weather closely so that we can make a "go/no-go" decision. The folks who were bringing the horses for the procession and cavalry demo are doing the same thing. After reading your message, I'm beginning to see "no-go" as the decision that's going to get made.

given the weather statements about the rain that will cause flooding for a couple of days that the event might have to be cancelled. It's not looking good this a.m. for weather from SC North to New England for the next few days and flooding of rivers is often after a storm has passed on.

Good luck in whatever you decide..

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The problem I have with the forecast for this storm is that if it slows just a little it will gain strength and hit the cold front and stall over the Triange area of N.C. -- and the rainfall already received is just like it was prior to Hurricane Fran, by the time the storm arrives the ground will be saturated and the large trees will be likely to fall over no matter how strong the winds are. Plus the flooding will create massive problems for this area.

If it stays east of Raleigh, we might avoid the worst of the rainfall totals.

here in Charlotte and a ton of rain.

Storms stopped for awhile, but it has started again now.

The storm that will not die. Hold on to your shorts...