Sep 06
Hanna Skips Charleston
Well, for those of you who were wondering, we survived Tropical Storm Hanna. It never even became a hurricane, but it got just about as close to a Category One status as a storm can get without actually crossing the line.
The forecast track had the weather guys guessing all the way to the end. It kept wanting to edge its way west, which kept putting it closer to Charleston, then kept moving more north, meaning it was going to miss us, after all. And in the end, it spared South Carolina any major damage at all, according to official reports.
According to official reports:
- Hanna made landfall near the border of North and South Carolina at 3:20am.
- Despite reports of isolated flooding and power outages closer to the landfall area, there are no reports of any significant damage in South Carolina.
- Only about 650 people made their way to shelters during the storm, and the shelters have already closed.
The last one in particular is a good thing, because it indicates that while Hanna was never going to be a major storm even if it had been a direct hit, there were at least some people willing to take even a tropical storm seriously.
I hope this is the last threat to the Charleston area this season. I’ve realized that I’m not a fan of this hurricane business.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:54 am
I paid attention to the news online and to twitter updates from friends down your way. Ranged from “we’re stocking up” to “I bought vienna sausages for this?” - glad you see y’all escaped relatively unscathed. We got a little rain yesterday and that was it. I mowed early in the week, coulda waited. Oh well.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Here at our house just west of Richmond we got about 4.25 inches of rain and winds that never got hight than 25 miles per hour. All in all a nice soaking, but no damage!
September 8th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I’m not sure how much rain we got here in Charleston, but I doubt it was more than two inches…IF that much. We had a little while of heavy, constant rain, but it wasn’t as long as I expected because the storm didn’t complete that sudden shift to the left. (And I’m perfectly okay with that.)