Author: WeatherPreppers

By John Schwartz, New York Times Hurricane Michael was a sly storm, one that seemed almost unexceptional at first. It followed its predicted path with seeming obedience, but then burst into sudden fury as it approached the Florida Panhandle, reaching wind speeds at the cusp of Category 5 strength and leaving mud and rubble in its wake. It was, in other words, a hurricane: the product of multitudinous forces that blend heat, wind and moisture…

Man charged with threatening Wake County students and having child porn appears in court Arthur Vladimir Kochetkov, the Wake Forest man who sparked fear after being charged with threatening elementary school students appeared in court in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, October 9, 2018, on new charges of possessing child pornography.

Governor warns NC to pay attention to Hurricane Michael N.C. Governor Roy Cooper warns North Carolina residents to “turn their attention to Hurricane Michael” as it tracks notheast from the Gulf Coast to already soaked and flood-ravenged areas of teh state in the wake of Hurricane Florence.

MEXICO CITY — A tropical storm warning is in effect for a mid-peninsula stretch of Mexico’s Baja California as Tropical Storm Sergio bears down, with expected landfall early Friday. Schools in the area will be closed and the Baja California Sur state government reports that 40 shelters have been readied with a capacity of over 8,000 people. The port of San Carlos is closed. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Sergio is expected to bring…

RALEIGH (WTVD) — As Tropical Storm Michael continues to move through North Carolina, heavy storms are already beginning to cause thousands of power outages across the state.As of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Duke Energy has reported a total of 52,294 outages. Duke Energy projects Hurricane Michael could cause 300,000 to 500,000 power outages in North Carolina and South Carolina this week, based on the storm’s current forecasted track. Officials said complete power restoration from a storm…

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Some 9,300 North Carolinians have applied for “disaster-related” unemployment benefits in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Many of those same people, almost 8,000, have also applied for disaster unemployment assistance, an additional benefit for those left without wages because of the storm. That’s nearly four times the number of people who requested disaster unemployment assistance (DUA) after Hurricane Matthew in 2016, said Larry Parker, spokesman for the N.C. Department of Commerce’s Division of Employment Security….

In the midst of Hurricane Michael’s destruction, four kittens are providing a glimmer of hope. A family in Panama City, Florida, was trying to leave their home because the ceiling was collapsing when something unexpected happened. ”When the ceiling come down, four kittens come down with it,” one of the homeowners told ABC News’ Rob Marciano. “My cousin took the kittens and said, ‘y’all aren’t gonna die on our watch’ and took them out the…

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By Gilbert Baez, WRAL reporter Hope Mills, N.C. — Cumberland County leaders have declared a state of emergency and opened an Emergency Operations Center Thursday morning to track the advent of Tropical Storm Michael in North Carolina. Interactive tracker | River flooding forecasts | School closingsTriangle impacts | Maps & webcams | Michael’s records | Shelter, road info The forecast is for high winds, with gusts of up to 50 mph possible, that could down…

MIAMI, Fla. — Search-and-rescue teams fanned out across the Florida Panhandle to reach trapped people in Michael’s wake Thursday as daylight yielded scenes of rows upon rows of houses smashed to pieces by the third-most powerful hurricane on record to hit the continental U.S. RELATED: Aerials show destroyed buildings in Panama City Beach At least two deaths were blamed on Michael, and it wasn’t done yet: Though weakened into a tropical storm, it continued to…