Live updates on Ian, downgraded to post-tropical cyclone

Table Of Content

• Idalia forecast to bring rain, winds to Charlotte as region brushes with a tropical storm
• Videos show Coast Guard rescuing people stranded after Ian
• North Carolina Senate OKs $500 million for private school vouchers, student accounts
• Detailed Forecast
• Tracking Ian: How it will impact the Carolinas, and when

— Power crews are working to restore power to the thousands of Carolinians without power on Saturday after Ian impacted both North Carolina and South Carolina. Thankfully, my house did not flood, but my neighborhood did – stranding us for several days. As Florence dumped inch after inch of rain on us, I spent countless minutes – perhaps hours – staring out the window as the water was rising in the street and inching up the front yard.

Update on power outages in Charlotte area after Tuesday’s storm - Charlotte Observer

Update on power outages in Charlotte area after Tuesday’s storm.

Posted: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

Idalia forecast to bring rain, winds to Charlotte as region brushes with a tropical storm

Streets in the 350-year-old city were largely empty, an ordinarily packed morning commute silenced by the advancing storm. “Hurricanes and tropical storms are not just a coastal event. A tropical storm warning was issued for the area around Charlotte, which will see rain move in Friday morning. Tuesday, Hurricane Ian has winds of 120 mph, and is moving to the north-northeast at 10 mph, as a category three hurricane.

Videos show Coast Guard rescuing people stranded after Ian

I left news because I wasn't really being accountable to communities in the way that I would have preferred. As a reporter, you talk to people on the worst day ever, and you don't really get sent back until it's the worst day ever. The private-school scholarships began a decade ago focused on children in low-income families. More recently eligibility expanded to middle-class families. Scholarship levels are tiered based on family income — ranging from up to $7,468 for the lowest-income families to $3,360 for the highest income level.

North Carolina Senate OKs $500 million for private school vouchers, student accounts

The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for much of the Charlotte region and beyond, including the Piedmont, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. Life-threatening sea level rise along the east coast is the largest threat there. Three-to-five feet of surge is possible for parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia. One-to-three feet is possible for the South Carolina coast and through Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey.

The Coast Guard helped rescue a man in the Ogeechee River who was trying to secure his Jet Ski when he got pulled out to sea. Power also continues to be an issue for many Floridians, he said. While Lee and Charlotte counties have had about 15% of their power restored, 85% remain without power, DeSantis said, and some of their utilities will "require some rebuild." Lee County, among the hardest-hit areas, had a water main break and "does not have water at this point," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press briefing Friday morning. FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers have arrived in that area to assist.

Detailed Forecast

James Jarvis is the Executive Director of the Red Cross Cape Fear Chapter, which covers parts of the east coast. He says they've taken the first steps toward readiness if they’re needed. The American Red Cross says they're ready to respond if Hurricane Ian makes an impact on eastern North Carolina, too. In August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it continued to predict an above-average 2022 Atlantic hurricane season despite a slow start.

Tracking Ian: How it will impact the Carolinas, and when

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Friday afternoon the state was "feeling the impacts" of Hurricane Ian as the storm was making landfall in South Carolina. Duke Energy is getting ready to respond in anticipation of power outages during the storm later this week. Rain totals could be over 4 inches which will lead to flood concerns, especially east of Charlotte, where we expect to see higher rain totals. Widespread flooding and river flooding are not huge threats.

Living along the North Carolina coast, flooding is something we’ve long had to deal with. Until Hurricane Florence in 2018, though, it was something I covered as a journalist, not something I had experienced. I was just in awe — and also floored and angered — because I went to K-12 public school, then I went to what I believed to be the best public school in the state, UNC-Chapel Hill. And they didn't teach me this really significant Black history. North Carolina’s median household income in 2022 was $66,186, according to the U.S. The end of income caps to qualify for the Opportunity Scholarship program and the repeal of another eligibility requirement led to a six-fold increase in new applications for the coming school year.

Tropical Storm Ophelia makes landfall near Emerald Isle, North Carolina

Ahead of Ian's second expected U.S. landfall, the hurricane's effects were being felt across the state, the official said. "Hurricane Ian's landfall is imminent along the northern Charleston County coast," the official said during a briefing with Gov. Henry McMaster. A National Weather Service official warned Ian was set to make landfall Friday afternoon in South Carolina. "A lot of prayers have been answered, but I ought to ask people, don't quit yet because it's still coming," McMaster said during a briefing Friday afternoon. "We're just beginning to see the scale of that destruction," Mr. Biden said.

The hurricane tore through the park of about 60 homes, leaving many destroyed or mangled beyond repair, including Goodison's single-wide home. Wading through waist-deep water, Goodison and his son wheeled two trash cans containing what little he could salvage — a portable air conditioner, some tools and a baseball bat. "I don't know how anyone could have survived in there," William Goodison said amid the wreckage of a mobile home park in Fort Myers Beach where he'd lived for 11 years. Goodison said he was alive only because he rode out the storm at his son's house inland. He was already dead when rescue crews arrived, officials said, adding that foul play wasn't suspected.

It's the story of eastern North Carolina and our struggles with environmental racism. It also chronicles the resistance and the birth of the environmental justice movement, which also happened right here in eastern North Carolina. The bill could reach the desk of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, a longtime opponent of private-school vouchers, as soon as next week if the House votes on the Senate language. Republicans have narrow veto-proof majorities in both chambers that could override any Cooper veto. Scattered rain showers will still be possible in the Carolinas for Saturday and Sunday.

‘Torrential’ rain from Idalia could affect Charlotte commute Thursday, NWS says - Charlotte Observer

‘Torrential’ rain from Idalia could affect Charlotte commute Thursday, NWS says.

Posted: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Emergency management officials say residents in all parts of the state should sign up for weather alerts and prepare emergency supplies. Receive severe weather alerts straight to your phone by downloading the WCNC Charlotte app, where you can also send the team photos and videos of the storm as it is safe to do so. Beyond the typical severe weather, there are dangerous heat waves, record-breaking cold snaps or even hazardous winds that could impact people's safety. Those instances would cause WCNC Charlotte's Weather Team to tell everyone they should be Weather Aware. WCNC Charlotte chief meteorologist Brad Panovich said Charleston reported wind gusts as high as 56 mph as Ian moved closer to landfall.