On Monday, September 10th, Hurricane Florence was billed as a Category 4 hurricane that was supposed to blow straight up through Raleigh by that Friday afternoon. However, as we got closer to the weekend it was obvious the storm track was changing and the hurricane was slowing down. If you had watched The Weather Channel even as late as Thursday, you would have seen forecasts for our area of anywhere from 10-30″ of rain and hurricane force winds on Friday. Well, luckily for us they completely missed the forecast for our area and we ended up only received about 10″ of rain spread out over a few days. We still had to prepare though, with lots of trip to the grocery store, Sam’s club for water and the Academy Sports at the last minute to get a cooler for ice in case the power went out. We were lucky as almost 1 million people were out of power at some point, 13 deaths have been reported so far and for those people that did evacuate the area they are having a hard time getting home because of all the flooding. Anyway, here are some before and after photos – again it turned out to just be a minor annoyance for us so we were lucky.
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