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Showing Original Post only (View all)So my 86 year old dad has decided to ride out Florence [View all]
He lives in Belhaven NC which is right on the Sound. I'm worried. Current forcast models put Florence ashore South of him but he's well inside the margin of uncertainty.
I don't know what to tell him. He says he's going to stay. My concern is the storm surge and also the rain flooding. His house is roughly 3 feet above sealevel and FEMA raised it by 5 feet in 2001 so the living room floor is roughly 10 feet above sea level. I think the Sound would eat some of the storm surge so even if the surge is 14' he'd have a lot less where he is.
I'm also worried that if I convince him to evacuate (which I'm wishing I could actually but can't seem to) he might end up put himself in a worse situation. He might go to Raleigh and end up in a flood because it might get more rain or his passage back home which ended up mostly clear might get blocked by flooding.
Thoughts?