it's getting close but you'd never know it

 At the beach  before sunrise .. what hurricane.. pretty flat with a few rollers breaking in the surf.. lots of clouds building.. 'the calm before the storm'.. sunny and mid 80's all day today.. a pretty day overall

here's the latest 5PM National Hurricane center Advisory on Hurricane Florence ..still 1000 miles east and SSE of Bermuda but moving at 13mph 140mph and heading directly at us at the North Carolina-South Carolina state border

Updated Florence Advisory link

heading out in the early AM-- around 3 to 4am .. never stay for a Cat 4-- never so says that wise man of men Jack Hexter who stayed during Andrew in Homestead, Florida