Hurricane Florence and Charleston, SC

[Iain McFadyen]

Glad to hear that you are OK, Terry.

Please note that according to the NWS website, no less than seven of the
National Weather Service transmitters in NC, and two of the transmitters in
SC are off the air.

So, if you have a S.A.M.E. radio listening to the 162MHz channels, please
re-check that you are receiving at least one of the NWS transmissions.

(The SAME radio is programmed with an area ID based on your ZIP code, and
the radio stays muted until an alert is received for your area, so if the
transmitter is off the air, you won't know about it)

Deplorable that a system like that, designed to be used to advise of
tornadoes and floods, is so badly crippled at the very time it is needed.

73

Iain  G4JMM     (aka  KI4HLV)

On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 5:53 PM Terry N4TLF <n4tlf at wb4jfi.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> So far, we are doing fine.  I put up the hurricane shutters on our house,
> and pulled in everything that was outside.  Fortunately for us, Florence
> has
> stayed mostly north of Charleston.  We didn't even get any rain or wind
> until late last night.  I think we have had less than one inch of rain.
> The
> Ashley River is only one street away from our house, but we didn't expect
> it
> to overflow, and it hasn't.
>
> The power hasn't gone out, neither has cable TV nor Internet access.  We
> have a whole-house generator just in case, and an off-air TV antenna for
> these situations.  No trees have come down so far.  I think the Washington
> D.C. area has received more rain than we have!
>
> My mother lives on Oak Island, NC, which is just south of Wilmington.  As
> of
> yesterday evening, she had not lost power either, and was also in good
> shape.  Her house had hurricane shutters put up too.  She had had several
> days of rain, but her house is on one of the highest points of the island,
> so less likely to be flooded or washed away by storm surge.
>
> Thanks to everyone who was concerned, we are doing good.
> 73, Terry, N4TLF
>
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