Hurricane Florence

[Jim Eshelman]

Getting this ready for when information hits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Florence

UPDATE 9/13 6:56 PM: So far:
* Primary broadcast site for today was Myrtle Beach, SC. I had predicted elsewhere that the press would primarily camp out where Mercury was exactly angular, and it's 0°15' from MC in the Arilunar for Myrtle Beach.
* The outer band of winds have been impacting the Carolinas in the 6-9 PM EDT period.
* It looks like landfall might be around Wilmington, NC sometime after sunrise tomorrow.
* Jupiter in the Arilunar lines all along the eastern coast. The rain and storm surge from this hurricane are expected to be enormous, especially impactful because the soil was already saturated in Virginia and the Carolinas and the Hurricane Flo is expected to more or less stop ("stall") over one area and just keep dumping up to 40" of rain in one spot.
* After it moves inland, the target areas are Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland.

[Jim Eshelman]

Hurricane Florence landfall
September 14, 2018, 7:15 AM EDT, near Wrightsville Beach, NC

I was hoping that by the time I got to work we'd have exact longitude and latitude of the landfall sight, but we'll go with what we have so far. It made landfall this morning as a very slow-moving Category 1 hurricane (maximum sustained winds of 90 mph), driving 10-foot storm surges and expected to do enormous damage over the next day or two. - Too bad the National Hurricane Center web site doesn't have the same kind of detailed tracking we have for earthquakes.

Half a million people are without power this morning. The town of New Bern, NC is getting covered extensively by news media this morning because of 150 or so people stranded there and heroic efforts in motion to rescue them.

Landfall was immediately after sunrise. The general aspects in space are consistent with this event - Mercury opposite Neptune and a Venus-Mars-Uranus T-square - but none of them were highlighted exactly where and when landfall occurred. - But look how close Uranus and Pluto contacts to the Capsolar angles were for that exact spot! Overall the charts are excellent, but the daily factors aren't as crash-bang climactic as we usually see. (I've added some PSSIs at the bottom.)

ADDED 10/12: Final casualties: 30 dead directly, and 23 indirectly, from the hurricane. Damages in excess of $45 billion.

Year: Capsolar {+2}
Pluto sq. Asc 0°02'
Uranus on WP 0°05'
Sun &Venus more widely foreground
-- Venus-Uranus sq. 0°13' in mundo
-- Sun-Uranus sq. 0°21'
-- Sun-Venus conj. 1°25'
Mars-Jupiter conj. 0°50; PVP
Moon-Mercury conj. 0°51'
Moon-Saturn conj. 1°02' in mundo

Bridge {+2}
t Pluto sq. Capsolar Asc 0°28'

Quarter: Cansolar {+2}
Moon on Asc 0°45'
Saturn & Neptune widely foreground

Venus-Mars-Neptune are tightly aligned along the prime vertical, so we have:
Moon-Neptune op. 0°25' PVP
Moon-Venus sq. 0°59' PVP
Venus-Mars op. 1°00' PVP
Venus-Neptune op. 1°27' PVP
Moon-Mars sq. 1°34' PVP
Mars-Neptune conj. 2°27' PVP

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.) Moon-Mars conj. 0°31' in mundo.
Week: Liblunar (Dormant,) Moon-Mars sq. 2°25' in mundo
Week: Canlunar (Dormant.) Moon-Mars op. 1°38' in mundo, Moon-Venus sq. 2°40'.

Week: Arilunar {+2}
Mercury on MC 1°21'
Jupiter on Asc 2°03'
-- Mercury-Jupiter sq. 2°42'
Moon-Venus op. 1°14' in mundo
Moon-Mars sw. 2°13' in mundo

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {0/+2 = +2}
p MC op. t Sun 0°11'
---------------------------
t Pluto sq. s Asc 0°28'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {+2}
p Asc conj. s Jupiter 0°54'
p MC conj. p Mercury 0°08', s Mercury 0°14'


PSSI Capsolar
p MC op. p Mars 1°49' (triggered by t Moon)

PSSI Cansolar (Nothing.)

PSSI Arisolar
t Pluto sq. p Moon 0°13'
p EP op. s Jupiter

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Three confirmed dead so far.

[Jim Eshelman]

Notice that, with transiting Pluto at 23°49' Sagittarius today, the Philippines Cansolar Asc is 23°41' Pisces and the Wrightsville Beach, NC Capsolar Asc is 24°18' Virgo.

[Jim Eshelman]

And Florence is now degraded to Tropical Storm Florence (winds less than 70 mph). Remember, though, this can be nearly as bad (f not worse) - Tropical Storm Camille was Virginia's worst disaster after, after Hurricane Camille had devastating effect elsewhere. Now we should expect the floods.

[Jim Eshelman]

As expected, things are worse today than yesterday. Florence, degraded to a tropical storm, is putting more lives at risk with flooding and wht are described as "walls of water" at the coast from the storm surge. Lumberton, NC is facing imminent threat of their river breaking its banks and flooding the city, so workers are trying to shore up protective barriers.

South Carolina is starting to feel renewed effects as Flo flows toward Myrtle Beach.