well my INTERNET friends we have a hurricane coming to north Carolina and it is Hanna.NOAA is predicting the eye to come ashore near Jacksonville, NC late tomorrow night. Jacksonville is about 75 miles south of me so i am sure we will get a lot of rain and wind from it. hurricane force winds and rain usually extend a 100 to 150 out from the eye and the none hurricane force winds can go even farther out from the center.it seams that these storms always come at night when you can’t see what is happening 
To everyone in NC, I appreciate you absorbing the impact of Hanna before she gets to where I am. ;D
Seriously, I pray there is no loss of life or injuries to anyone in NC. I hope the property damage will be minimal.
Actually its a Tropical Storm. And a very disorganized storm at that. Main threat will be rain, much needed rain due to the drought here in NC.
From the 8:00PM EDT advisory:
HANNA COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OVER THE NORTHERN BAHAMAS AND THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA...WITH MAXIMUM ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 5 INCHES POSSIBLE. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE GEORGIA COAST SOUTHWARD TO THE CENTRAL FLORIDA COAST. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE LIKELY TO SPREAD RAPIDLY NORTHWARD INTO THE MID ATLANTIC STATES AND NEW ENGLAND FROM FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY AND MAY RESULT IN FLOODING.COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 2 TO 4 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE
LEVELS…ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES…CAN BE
EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF THE PATH OF THE CENTER OF HANNA.REPEATING THE 800 PM EDT POSITION…26.0 N…76.0 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD…NORTHWEST NEAR 14 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…65 MPH.
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…987 MB.THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT
1100 PM EDT.
wish everyone safety and god be will you 
http://www.stormpulse.com/
I hope everyone makes it through safe 
and also hope that some remnants make it here to Ohio because where im at we do so desperately need rain.
-Justin
Hanna’s eye is about 240 miles from Wilmington , NC the winds are 70 mph with gust up to 80 mph this was the 5:00 report. it is moving north west at 20 mph and they are saying that the worst part of it will be from I95 back east so it will cover all of eastern north Carolina. i am about 45 miles east of I95 and all of eastern , NC is under a tornado watch until 5:00 AM.
Hanna’s eye came ashore at 3:20 AM near Wilmington ,NC at this time ( 10 AM ) we are still in high winds at about 58 mph and gust have been reported up to 77 mph.well thats about it Hanna is still out side and doing her thing as i type this post.
wish you safety Jerry12 as i can see from the web link i posted a few posts above where the storm is
http://www.stormpulse.com/
Hanna wasn’t as bad as we though it would be i just had one shingle to bow up.i have seen a few tree limbs down but not to many of them i am sure Hanna was worst on the coast but in my area we came out good.on todays map it looks like Ike is going to the gulf coast Texas area they just had a hurricane in the gulf coast they don’t need more.
I live near the coast in southeastern NC and it was more or less like a bad thunderstorm without the lightning.
There was me thinking you lived on that island in your avatar CharleyO ;D
I wish I could afford an island like that! 