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That looks about right but it's still 2 days away and too early to make the stay/leave decision, imo. I'll wait til Friday morning and take another look at the forecast.
I'm thinking of staying. I'd hate to evacuate just for tropical storm winds. My work closes for the actual storm, during the aftermath I'm still going to be expected to be at work. So leaving to escape the aftermath isn't much of an option. I doubt they're going to reverse lanes so that everybody can come back.
We're staying. If you're inland it looks to me like the worst we might see is Cat 1 in gusts but not sustained hurricane force winds. Tropical storm force winds can cause lots of damage too, but I feel like we will be fine to just stay put.
Yeah, I'm on James Island and in my general neighborhood, it looks like about half left and half stayed. I did see a few cars packing up this morning though. I'll assess tomorrow morning but for now I'm leaning towards staying.
The important thing to do is watch the forecast models which are known to be dead on. Dave Barry has a useful update on Matthew with the latest forecast models included:
We are thinking about staying here in Ladson. Do you think we should be evacuting or will it be okay here? We didn't flood last year.
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