Livecam Florence, inbound....

[Spudsbud]

Just off the SC coast !

http://classicsailboats.org/hurricane-florence-frying-pan-tower-live-cam/

 

[mudpuppy]

Cool link, thanks

 

[Garrddogg]

That's a great link! it does kind of remind me of a Havasu afternoon. lol

 

[GRADS]

How long do you think that flag will last?

 

[redone76]

How long do you think that flag will last?

Forever

 

[SoCalDave]

How long do you think that flag will last?

Forever

It's starting to shred...

 

[brianwhiteboy]

That wind sounds intense

 

[SHEP]

How do those rigs stay in the same spot during a hurricane?

 

[Lavey5150]

It's starting to shred...

Murica' has been shredding for 241 years......and counting

 

[4Waters]

For the record I'm not down playing this.

That ocean looks angry but I expected it to look worse than that.

 

[SoCalDave]

How do those rigs stay in the same spot during a hurricane?

This one is anchored into the ground as it is relatively shallow there.

The Frying Pan Tower – formerly the U.S. Coast Guard Frying Pan Light Station, is a lighthouse situated at the end of the Frying Pan Shoals, 34 miles south of Bald Head Island N.C.

The shallow waters of the shoals (only 35-50 feet under the Tower) made ship navigation treacherous so in 1854 a lightship was stationed there. For 110 years, except for a few years during The War Between the States and WWII, crews manned the lightship 24/7 in all weather.

In 1960 construction began on a permanent steel structure with a lantern house to replace the lightship. The structure was a modified Texas drilling platform, called a “Texas Tower” designed to provide housing and support for the light, warning ships of the shallow waters.

The Coast Guard decommissioned the station in 2004, sitting abandoned until 2010 where Richard Neal, a software engineer from Mint Hill, NC purchased the tower and currently runs the station as a bed and breakfast.

 

[WhatExit?]

The storm’s maximum sustained winds were clocked late on Wednesday at 110 miles per hour (175 kph), down from a peak of 140 mph a day earlier, before it was downgraded to a Category 3, then a Category 2, on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of wind strength.

“While Florence has weakened below major hurricane intensity, the wind field of the hurricane continues to grow in size,” the NHC said in its latest bulletin.

 

[OldSchoolBoats]

The storm’s maximum sustained winds were clocked late on Wednesday at 110 miles per hour (175 kph), down from a peak of 140 mph a day earlier, before it was downgraded to a Category 3, then a Category 2, on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of wind strength.

“While Florence has weakened below major hurricane intensity, the wind field of the hurricane continues to grow in size,” the NHC said in its latest bulletin.

And those winds dont even hit until tomorrow!

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[lbhsbz]

How long do you think that flag will last?

If you click the link to the tower website, you can see pictures where the owner has all the torn up flags from the various hurricanes since he acquired the tower in 2010 hanging from the wall. Kinda neat.

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Cool place but I wouldn't want to be on it right now. That wind is a blowing.

 

[GRADS]

That flag is unraveling about as fast as Donald Trumps presidency.

 

[Tank]

That flag is unraveling about as fast as Donald Trumps presidency.

Proof by assertion, sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is an informal fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction.

We should start the count down to grads banning thread. Kinda like the trump impeachment thread but waaaaaay more plausible.

 

[WhatExit?]

That flag is unraveling about as fast as Donald Trumps presidency.

Threadcrapping and post whoring is your specialty

 

[SoCalDave]

Taking a beating...

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Sea state is starting to get confused with the wind now. Wave height is up. Bitchen cam thanks for sharing.

 

[redone76]

Is it me or has the camera shifted?

 

[GRADS]

Threadcrapping and post whoring is your specialty

Thank you?

 

[Tank]

Camera actually got knocked to the right. Can’t see the roof of the structure anymore.

 

[paradise]

Is it me or has the camera shifted?

It has turned a couple times today

 

[brianwhiteboy]

That flag is unraveling about as fast as Donald Trumps presidency.

 

[2Driver]

When Irma hit BVI I happened onto the Bitter End yaght club webcam on the dock. It was still live, but now filming underwater seconds before it went off line.

Usually it shows the docks and boats etc. It was all light green then a fish went by and a minute later it was black.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

That flag is unraveling about as fast as Donald Trumps presidency.

As anyone told you your a DICK head today ? Let me be the 1st DICK head

 

[DrunkenSailor]

They are moving the camera around right now.

 

[4Waters]

It will be interesting to see what the flag looks like in the morning

 

[DLC]

Something is wrong with the camera it’s all blacked out....

Wind is howling...

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Yeah the cam went black and white a little while ago and then it died.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Cam is down

 

[DrunkenSailor]

The wind was humming pretty good before it died.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

The wind was humming pretty good before it died.

Rip lol

 

[GRADS]

I'm guessing its dark because it's 8:15 there and it's Stormy.

 

[MOUZER]

still down.............................

 

[GRADS]

still down.............................

still dark...............................

 

[DLC]

It may get fixed tomorrow morning!

Gremlins! Don’t get em wet, or was it feed em after dark......

 

[lbhsbz]

still down.............................

I don’t think anyone is gonna fly a helicopter out there and fix it right now.

 

[lbhsbz]

 

[TomD]

All calm and new flag today!!!

 

[Taboma]

All calm and new flag today!!!

That's crazy how calm it is now compared to 24 hours ago !!
35 miles to the west it's pouring and 31mph winds.

 

[GRADS]

Here is the a live camera below the tower with the flag. Lots of sharks.

 

[MSum661]

Drama as peeps go for a stroll around the neighborhood.

 

[MOUZER]

what a dumb azz.................i can hardly stand here omg......then 2 people stroll by what a duch

 

[stephenkatsea]

The forecasting and predictions by the meteorologists were excellent. To put these idiots on the same broadcast is an embarrassment to those occupations; reporters and forecasters. Most unfortunately, all of the networks (Cable and alphabet) were guilty of this.

 

[Boat 405]

Drama as peeps go for a stroll around the neighborhood.

And now this is why people say FAKE NEWS

 

[MSum661]

And now this is why people say FAKE NEWS

Yep.

 

[GRADS]

So Trump called this storm the biggest storm that has ever hit America.....Fake News.

 

[highvoltagehands]

Here is the a live camera below the tower with the flag. Lots of sharks.

Pretty cool seeing a sleeping shark drift back and forth.