Drove from Richmond VA to DC this AM. The I-95 traffic was bumper to bumper, stop and go the whole way! Now I'm back in Richmond, and the traffic was normal heading S, but the NB lanes were still the same. I guess there are a lot of people trying to head N, to clear the hurricane. Couldn't fly because the only Flights go to Dulles, and that didn't take me where I needed to be.
On Monday, I checked the weather forecast for Richmond Airport, and it was saying 12' of rain on Friday, and another 7-8 on Saturday. Now, that's all been reduced to 1.4 on Friday and less than 1" on Saturday.
Having gone thru Cat 4 Agnes in 1972, Cat 5 Alicia in Houston in 83, Cat 3 Isabel in Williamsburg in 03, I'm not sorry that we're being spared but really feel for the Carolinas, because so much of that area between the Atlantic, and the beginning of any elevation increases represents 100-150 miles inland. Flooding will likely be very bad!
In Richmond yesterday I was at Costco & Wegmans and both were out of bottled water. There was a long line at Costco of people waiting for an expected water delivery. I wonder if it ever arrived? All the "white" groceries were mostly gone; bread, milk, toilet paper and paper towels. Fortunately, today's forecast says that it will mostly miss us.