{"id":37556,"date":"2018-09-09T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37556"},"modified":"2018-09-09T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T22:44:10","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-hurricane-florence-when-you-live-a-few-hundred-miles-inland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37556","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare for Hurricane Florence When You Live a Few Hundred Miles Inland"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Prepare for Hurricane Florence When You Live a Few Hundred Miles Inland<\/a><\/h3>\n
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When I moved to southwestern Virginia, I really didn\u2019t expect to be dealing with hurricanes. But, as I\u2019ve just learned, a system like Hurricane Florence could affect places that are as much as 350+ miles from the shore. So, if you are one of the 112 million and then some of Americans in the area classified as the \u201cEast Coast\u201d \u2013 particularly the southern to mid-Atlantic part \u2013 you need to get prepared.<\/p>\n

When and where will Hurricane Florence make landfall?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hurricane Florence is picking up power and could make landfall as a Category 5 as soon as Thursday. If you aren\u2019t familiar with hurricanes, a Category 5 hurricane has sustained winds of 156 mph or stronger.\u00a0 It is the highest classification for hurricanes.<\/p>\n

At this point, it looks like the coast between Charleston, SC, and Norfolk, VA will bear the brunt of the storm, with Wilmington, NC taking a direct hit from the eye. Here\u2019s a map from ABC News:<\/p>\n

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(photo credit: ABC News<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

Now, a very important thing to keep in mind is that hurricanes are unpredictable until they get closer to the shore. At that point, we can know with much more certainty that the storm is headed our way. Unfortunately, at that point, it\u2019s really too late to get prepared. Supplies will be picked over at the stores and roads will be jammed with people fleeing the hurricane.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s much better to prepare as far in advance as possible for a hurricane. And if this one turns back out to see, don\u2019t think your preparations have been wasted. Trust me, another one will come and you will be glad you have the supplies that you do.<\/p>\n

How far away from the coast can hurricanes affect you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How to Prepare for Hurricane Florence When You Live a Few Hundred Miles Inland When I moved to southwestern Virginia, I really didn\u2019t expect to be dealing with hurricanes. But, as I\u2019ve just learned, a system like Hurricane Florence could affect places that are as much as 350+ miles from the shore. So, if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[6156,21583,21582,650,5756],"class_list":["post-37556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-hurricane-florence","tag-hurricane-preparation","tag-prepping","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37557,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556\/revisions\/37557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}