***Official 2024 Hurricane Thread***

john4surf

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looks like we're gonna get some...
right now timing is for a sunny weekend..
where the LG's will tell us gtf outta here...
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Will there be snacks

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15 inches o' rain and much more on the way. Glad we cleared the storm drains.
Not really familiar with SC. Will all this rain falling inland cause any river flooding? Like you mentioned as long as ditches/drains etc are clear usually the coast can handle massive rain since there is somewhere for the water to go. Inland can be another story that is sometimes overlooked since the coast gets all the attention during a hurricane. I believe some of NC's most costly hurricanes was due to river flooding. Wondering if SC would be similar?
 

oneworlded

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Not really familiar with SC. Will all this rain falling inland cause any river flooding? Like you mentioned as long as ditches/drains etc are clear usually the coast can handle massive rain since there is somewhere for the water to go. Inland can be another story that is sometimes overlooked since the coast gets all the attention during a hurricane. I believe some of NC's most costly hurricanes was due to river flooding. Wondering if SC would be similar?
We have a massive, massive floodplain here because of all the wetlands and forests. They were expecting horrendous flooding around Georgetown, SC - an hour north of us - during 2018's Florence because of all the rivers flowing down from NC. But the floodwaters had so much room to spread out by the time they got there, there was only a few feet of rise. The big worry is surge. I think that's going to be worse north of Charleston up to Wilmington. Thankfully we don't have big astronomical tides right now too. So long/short - the landscape here is designed to handle a lot of rain. There will be plenty of localized flooding, but as long as we don't get major surge...
 

hammies

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We have a massive, massive floodplain here because of all the wetlands and forests. They were expecting horrendous flooding around Georgetown, SC - an hour north of us - during 2018's Florence because of all the rivers flowing down from NC. But the floodwaters had so much room to spread out by the time they got there, there was only a few feet of rise. The big worry is surge. I think that's going to be worse north of Charleston up to Wilmington. Thankfully we don't have big astronomical tides right now too. So long/short - the landscape here is designed to handle a lot of rain. There will be plenty of localized flooding, but as long as we don't get major surge...
I remember the one time I was in Charleston, I was driving along the Ashley River thinking, "If there's ever a hurricane this place is so screwed". That part of the city is like 1 foot above sea level.
 

Sharkbiscuit

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You getting some?
Getting some action items on the weekly conference call. Tide is kinda phu-hucked today.

I fee like we've had three+ "swells" this summer where the tide cycle basically screwed us. Like if we had dawn low, lunch high, evening low, it would have been fun, but it wasn't happening before work and onshore after work. I was watching that cam some a couple coming through when I saw but the makes weren't many. The dredge has been weird, and how each zone behaved has been a function of what the surf was doing when they were there.

Coastal SC I'd worry about storm surge.

Not a part most people are familiar with, and not a large chunk, but SC upland of I-85 is Appalachia without a doubt. The road from the Greenville area (if you're from California looking for somewhere cheap and you like to MTB and you want a better bargain than Asheville/Boone....) up in to DuPont State Forest is probably the craziest road I've ever been on in terms of tight turns and steepness of grade.

Anyway at some point you go from sand to good agricultural to rocky clay. Tropical moisture hits the topography and the rocky clay absorbs nothing. Meanwhile the coast can get inches and inches and the sand just eats it like Fat Bastard in Austin Powers.
 

oneworlded

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Getting some action items on the weekly conference call. Tide is kinda phu-hucked today.

I fee like we've had three+ "swells" this summer where the tide cycle basically screwed us. Like if we had dawn low, lunch high, evening low, it would have been fun, but it wasn't happening before work and onshore after work. I was watching that cam some a couple coming through when I saw but the makes weren't many. The dredge has been weird, and how each zone behaved has been a function of what the surf was doing when they were there.

Coastal SC I'd worry about storm surge.

Not a part most people are familiar with, and not a large chunk, but SC upland of I-85 is Appalachia without a doubt. The road from the Greenville area (if you're from California looking for somewhere cheap and you like to MTB and you want a better bargain than Asheville/Boone....) up in to DuPont State Forest is probably the craziest road I've ever been on in terms of tight turns and steepness of grade.

Anyway at some point you go from sand to good agricultural to rocky clay. Tropical moisture hits the topography and the rocky clay absorbs nothing. Meanwhile the coast can get inches and inches and the sand just eats it like Fat Bastard in Austin Powers.
We are considering a move to Asheville/Hendersonville just to get away from hurricanes. The mountain biking is absolutely world class. I've never seen an area with so much good riding and creative trail and feature building in such a relatively small stretch of geography. And I've been Mtb'ing since the very beginning. Ridgeline and Kanuga and Berm Park are just epic. And they just scratch the surface.
 

ElOgro

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We are considering a move to Asheville/Hendersonville just to get away from hurricanes. The mountain biking is absolutely world class. I've never seen an area with so much good riding and creative trail and feature building in such a relatively small stretch of geography. And I've been Mtb'ing since the very beginning. Ridgeline and Kanuga and Berm Park are just epic. And they just scratch the surface.
No surf. 5/7.
 

Sharkbiscuit

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Yeah I did Ridgeline. DuPont is the only trail I've done other than South Loop and E-line at Hanna. I did a fair bit of research, and Pisgah sounded a bit gnarboots and was a little farther North.

Saw a white squirrel pretty high up the climb. If I had to do it over again, I'd probably stay on the fire road for the climb. I can control my breathing at Hanna but I don't know if I was just too excited or what, because it's not that high, but I kept sucking wind at DuPont.

I'm for sure going back. There's some other trails by Jackrabbit, Tsali, and a flowy one in North Georgia that looks right up my alley.

I don't feel like joining the "clavicle club".
 

surfcheck101

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Sounding off from San Jose del Cabo as of 1:30pm-pouring rain and wind gusts of over 40mph, started around 12:20-defenitely more weather than expected. Surf started slowly today and then 10:30ish jumped in size quickly with some well overhead sets before it went to complete crap just after 12pm-at least here in town. Much needed rain and a nice break from the 90+ degree weather we have been having!
 

ElOgro

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Sounding off from San Jose del Cabo as of 1:30pm-pouring rain and wind gusts of over 40mph, started around 12:20-defenitely more weather than expected. Surf started slowly today and then 10:30ish jumped in size quickly with some well overhead sets before it went to complete crap just after 12pm-at least here in town. Much needed rain and a nice break from the 90+ degree weather we have been having!
I think more of the same for you for the next couple of days.