Florence Forecast To Become A Major Hurricane; Risk To The East Coast Is Rising
Tropical Storm Florence is quickly approaching the eastern United States, and according to the National Hurricane Center, the storm's threat to the East Coast keeps rising. The storm is traveling over warm water and is expected to increase its speed and become a hurricane by Saturday night.
The National Hurricane Center forecasts Florence will be a dangerous major hurricane near the southeastern U.S. coast by late next week, "and the risk of direct impacts continues to increase."
"However, given the uncertainty in track and intensity forecasts at those time ranges," the National Hurricane Center tweeted, "it's too soon to determine the exact timing, location, and magnitude of those impacts."
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And it's right next to the toilet.
Obviously you could buy some jugs for drinking water of course. 
Thinking about flushing (and potentially hand rag bathing).
2x5 gallon buckets for all that.
I had 10 gallons of drinking water, too.
Thankfully we didn't need what we all got to prepare but we were so prepared.
Best of Luck to East Coasters!
What's next on the list?
with reading material (double as flashlights). I think my husband would prioritize his over his beer. Maybe. He'd know he could fall back on my hard liquor (doubles as an antiseptic).
...if anyone spills their coffee on the counter the president has their back...
Rain will start shortly but we really need it.
Give me hurricane alley over tornado alley any day of the week.
You know other animals change their behavior when these storms are coming but the birds and the land birds make a lot of noise.
The good is some nice size snapper will be available when the seas calm down.
Here inland, supermarkets make food available.
Seriously, my daughter lives on the edge of tornado alley. They were going to put a shelter under their garage, instead they built an "outdoor room." It's beautiful and gotten good use, 150 guests got to admire it at a recent party, but! Grandma wants a cramped little hole in the ground.
We're not as used as you to hurricanes either, though. Coming from California, our first real, personal experience, from a safe distance, was Irma, which we expected to permanently and completely destroy both land and mobile home of the one sitting low on salt water and eventually the other of our properties, which we'd lightheartedly purchased inland 2 hours away so they probably wouldn't both be taken out in one storm. 
She mostly went over both, suckING most of the water out of neighboring Tampa Bay for one and dumping its billions of tons elsewhere. An astonishing miracle that won't be repeated.
It's still likely the first will fall to rising seas first or developers, though. There's no effort to build sea walls in that town, and we just got warning that a developer is clandestinely trying to buy up enough units to take over our park. Nothing new except the clandestine.
Unless we attack the severe inequality of wealth the way our predecessors did, this is the end of the era when view and waterfront properties were available to citizens of ordinary means. But not the end of ordinary citizens being taxed to protect these properties.
