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[MyGirlsMom]

The rain totals for this storm are huge.  

[151949]

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@JaneMarple wrote:

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@Imadickens wrote:

@JaneMarple I caught the end of the report but I thought it showed Florida ready for a direct hit Tuesday (?) . Even with the cone of error, Fl. gets a direct hit! Hopefully, if it hits other places first, it won't still be Cat 5! I pray it doesn't harm anyone, but not holding out much hope!

My dad is buried in NC and during Andrew,(I think!) the caskets all came floating up out of the ground and ended up in the middle of roads! Thankfully, we were never told he was one! I pray that should be the worst of the storm!

Oh my goodness how awful for you and your family to have that worry. I hope this storm goes out to sea after it leaves the Caribbean.

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For many many many years now it has been the law that caskets have to be placed into concrete lockboxes with lids that lock on so this could not happen.They dig the hole - then it is lined with the concrete box and as soon as the family leaves the graveside the lid is lifted on and locked in place.

[151949]

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@MyGirlsMom wrote:

To everyone in the coastal states, please stay safe. The meteorologists still don't know the path it will take once it leaves the Caribbean.  Gulf Coast States or eastern Sea board States. 

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No cone of possibility shows it going into the Gulf coast - it is a ? of how far east or west along the east coast of the USA it may go.

[JaneMarple]

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@esmerelda wrote:

@JaneMarpleI did read the reports.  That's how I know it was 24 hours from Cat 1 to Cat 5.

I can't think of ANYTHING in nature that starts out at it's largest possible size.  Things grow, they build.  So what you said...that it started out as a Cat 5 is impossible, in addition to incorrect.

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@esmerelda READ the reports!!!!! The meteorologists said it not me!

[sunshine45]

@MyGirlsMom

this past week in the delmarva area, some places got as much as 12 inches of rain. the past two days have been sunny, but the waters still have not receded everywhere. if it hits up this way there will be a lot more problems!

http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2016/09/30/storm-hits-delaware-beaches-worse-th...

[151949]

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@JaneMarple wrote:

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@esmerelda wrote:

@JaneMarpleI did read the reports.  That's how I know it was 24 hours from Cat 1 to Cat 5.

I can't think of ANYTHING in nature that starts out at it's largest possible size.  Things grow, they build.  So what you said...that it started out as a Cat 5 is impossible, in addition to incorrect.

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@esmerelda READ the reports!!!!! The meteorologists said it not me!

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Actually I have been watching this storm for several days - it went from a tropical storm to a cat one - then the next day it was a cat 4 then that night a cat 5. It certainly did not just develop asa cat5 but it did get there very quickly.

[MyGirlsMom]

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@sunshine45 wrote:

@MyGirlsMom

this past week in the delmarva area, some places got as much as 12 inches of rain. the past two days have been sunny, but the waters still have not receded everywhere. if it hits up this way there will be a lot more problems!

http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2016/09/30/storm-hits-delaware-beaches-worse-th...

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@sunshine45

oh no! 

[Zhills]

The National Weather Service has issued a sample NHC hurricane forecast graphic and lists five important points to help you to better understand the "forecast cone:"

The cone represents the probable track of the center of the tropical cyclone.

The size of the cone is drawn so that about two-thirds of the time, the center of the storm will remain in the cone.

The cone does not take the size of the storm into account.
A hurricane is not a point; impacts often occur well outside of the core.
The cone indicates the forecast up to five days out from the last recorded position of the storm.
The NHC cone is bright white for 72 hours and "hatched" for the 96- and 120-hour forecasts. Keep in mind that some tropical storms and hurricanes are more difficult to forecast than others.

The cone only indicates a forecast track of a tropical cyclone. It doesn't indicate other information like potential storm surge, rainfall and any watches or warnings that may have been issued. Some impacts from tropical storms and hurricanes can be experienced hundreds of miles from the center of the storm.

Parts of Florida were declared a disaster area and Hermine stayed 200 miles off shore!

[Lipstickdiva]

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@Hoovermom wrote:

DS is going on vacation Saturday morning to the Dominican Republic for a much needed vacation.  Prayers for all of the people in the path of this horrendous storm.  Maybe he will still be able to go.

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Fingers crossed.

My DH and I were planning a trip to Punta Cana but the only time we could have gone this year was about this time and we didn't want to go during hurrican season.

Our honeymoon to the Bahamas was during hurricane season and we had to leave a day early because of a storm and they were boarding up the windows when we left that year.  I'm not doing that again.  LOL

[JaneMarple]

I've been watching MSNBC and Al Roker says that if Matthew continues the path that iit's on, then it may hit the Carolinas by Saturday.  NY and NJ possibly by Sunday possibly.