Lots of Tropical Storm Warnings for counties in Virginia. None of the warnings are as far inland as I am (roughly 100 miles.)
Sort of funny, but when we lived in Huntersville, NC, which is just a few miles north of Charlotte, a friend of my wife called us from So California to see if the hurricane Hanna had hit us. She didn't realize just how far we lived from the ocean, as in: Cape Fear River in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. We told her "didn't even know a hurricane was out there and nothing hit us". She thought we lived a whole lot closer to the ocean than we really did.
Funny how people assume that if you live in a state with a coast line you are close to it. In NJ, in a good many places this is true as it it not a wide state for the most part and I don't live that far from the Atlantic Ocean, but I have a ton of friends who live closer to the Delaware River on the west.
Boy, my town is taking this storm seriously. I've just had 3 alerts in a row from them about our readiness.
Heck, try having relatives visit from England and think they are gonna see sites from California to Arizona to Florida to New York...all in one week! This is not an island, folks.
Iasia is predicted to go up the I-95 corridor which would take it very near my house. I don't think it will amount to much, though. The biggest threat is from trees and limbs falling on power lines. We have had so much rain lately that the ground is saturated. It won't take much wind to blow down trees. My son got my generator out, made sure it will run and put it under the carport. ....... just in case.
We were sitting on the edge of the cone of possibility and got absolutely nothing. No wind, no rain. NO PROBLEM!
Only got a little less than 2 inches in this part of PA. Rained from about 10 AM to 3 PM; no downpours; just moderate but steady. Got a lot of rainy day projects done, most notably checking the attic for leaks. It takes a contortionist to get up there. Access is through a trap door in a closet utilizing a ladder. No fun for a 77 year old. Other than that we ended up with some cooler and fresher air.
Florida got spared from this one, but South and North Carolina and some other areas definitely didn't! Lots of destruction and house fires. An entire island was shut off from society. Jim Cantore, from the Weather Channel, reporting on the island, stated that him and his cameraman had to take a boat to the island and seen many boat docks torn from their bases and either turned sideways or completely sunk. A tornado hit one area and "walloped" it.
I just got back online after a 26 hr power outage. I had to haul out the candles, flashlights, my Coleman camp stove and my kerosene lamps. I had to scrounge batteries from my clocks for my radio. The worst part was getting no information about when it would be fixed. At first I thought it was our entire town, then I found out it was just my neighborhood - downed trees over power lines. I never saw any trucks coming and going down the street, but It got fixed eventually. It's not pleasant to be reminded of how dependent we are our on our modern tech.