Watch as Hurricane Matthew Claims This Poor C5 Corvette!
10-14-2016, 01:01 PM
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Watch as Hurricane Matthew Claims This Poor C5 Corvette!
This poor 'Vette and its owner became victims of Hurricane Matthew, which was one of the strongest and most devastating hurricanes the East Coast has had to face in decades.
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10-14-2016, 01:22 PM
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Was he/she out of the country?? If so.. That's one thing.. I'm in Ga. and the weather channel's informed us for 4 1/2 days in advance where and when it was going too hit... Rent a car/truck, have someone follow you to high ground.. Leave it. take the rental back with you and then evacuate all the rest...
Looks like he thought he was prepared though by that 4x4 stance...
10-14-2016, 01:47 PM
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Tried to drive out of it ??????? 
10-14-2016, 03:39 PM
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just like a boat fiberglass body floats 
10-14-2016, 05:15 PM
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10-14-2016, 05:42 PM
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As long as he had some Zaino on it, it should be fine 
10-14-2016, 07:40 PM
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This poor 'Vette and its owner became victims of Hurricane Matthew, which was one of the strongest and most devastating hurricanes the East Coast has had to face in decades.
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10-14-2016, 07:47 PM
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https://weather.com/news/news/hurric...arolina-update
10-14-2016, 07:53 PM
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Tell that to the people of North Carolina and SE Virginia that are still trying clean up after record flooding, not to mention the families of all that died as a result of Matthew.
https://weather.com/news/news/hurric...arolina-update
https://weather.com/news/news/hurric...arolina-update
10-14-2016, 08:13 PM
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Where I live, in SE VA, we received record amounts of rain, causing flooding in areas that haven't ever flooded before..... including my neighborhood (which is not in a declared flood prone area) where my family has lived for more than 20 years. Quite a few of my neighbors have lost most everything they own due to Matthews rains.
Glad the good people of Florida were spared.
10-14-2016, 09:34 PM
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"Their level of misery isn't of consequence to science"? What does that even mean? You were implying in your initial post that Matthew was a small/insignificant storm by the time it hit NC & VA. Not correct. While winds were down a bit, there was tremendous (historic) rainfall brought on by Matthew that has caused damage that is still being calculated, possibly in the billions of dollars.
Where I live, in SE VA, we received record amounts of rain, causing flooding in areas that haven't ever flooded before..... including my neighborhood (which is not in a declared flood prone area) where my family has lived for more than 20 years. Quite a few of my neighbors have lost most everything they own due to Matthews rains.
Glad the good people of Florida were spared.
Where I live, in SE VA, we received record amounts of rain, causing flooding in areas that haven't ever flooded before..... including my neighborhood (which is not in a declared flood prone area) where my family has lived for more than 20 years. Quite a few of my neighbors have lost most everything they own due to Matthews rains.
Glad the good people of Florida were spared.
The tragedy of this storm does not lie in the wind, the usual terror of a hurricane. The amount of rain was incredible as the storm movement slowed before it went out to sea. Now the rain in eastern NC didn't cause a major flood right away, the run off is incredible in quantity because the ground had already been saturated from previous rain fall. So the usually sandy soil of the east could not absorb the water. Instead it went into the sewers and feeder streams and overran the systems. As a result one of the feeder rivers didn't crest until today, almost a week after the storm.
10-14-2016, 10:20 PM
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While it wasn't the best move to try and drive through that much water, it's tough that the guy probably lost his C5.