One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

Will do. I didn't realize that a hurricane was headed your way. How far are you from Pittsboro? I have a friend there that I haven't talked to in awhile. What other part of the eastern coast is in its potential path? When is it predicted to hit land?

Pittsboro is about an hour west of me.
We are in the central part of NC. We get it bad when storms make landfall in the Wilmington area on the southern part of our coast and come through the center of the state. Depending upon how strong the storm is when it makes landfall we can still get hurricane force winds when it gets to us.

The thing with hurricane Fran was that we had another storm with a lot of rain a week before and the ground was saturated. A very large area had 70 mph winds and a lot of trees got blown down.
I personally didn't get my power back on for 10 days.

With Hurricane Floyd we got 22 inches of rain over a day and we had historical flooding.

Right now, it looks like the storm will either stay off the coast and not make landfall here, or if it does it will be on the northern outer banks. Either way, our coast will get a lot of rain, but right now it looks like it won't impact us too bad here in the central part of the state.

It could also hit land further north around NJ.

But, even without the hurricane the entire state of NC is under a flash flood watch from today through Sunday.

I'm on vacation next week and we were planning to leave Saturday for Williamsburg VA and spend the day Sunday at Bush Gardens. That looks like it will be a wash because of the hurricane.
That's the bad news, the good news is that we decided not to book the cruise to the Bahama's leaving Baltimore on Sunday. The Bahama's are definitely going to get pounded by this storm and I sure wouldn't want to be on a cruise ship in the mid-Atlantic Sunday.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Stay safe!

 

[OneFineAcre]

I remembered this picture from Hurricane Floyd and I went online and found it.
40,000 hogs drowned

 

[OneFineAcre]

Send some of that rain our way, and I'll push it to Babs. We got a little more than an inch this month. They say...

I think at my house we may have got around two. I just have a rain gauge though.





How often do you rotate bucks?

Right now I have 5 mature bucks and 3 bucklings from this year.

I want to sell one of the mature ones that I have had for 4 years and one of the bucklings and keep 6 for now.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Stay safe!!!

 

[samssimonsays]

Praying everyone over there stays safe.

 

[babsbag]

While we need rain I don't envy you at all. Fortunately we live on the top of a hill so flooding would never be likely and same with my goats, the advantage of hillside property. I hope it stays away from you and yes, good thing you didn't book that cruise.

Poor hogs, hope there is no repeat of that.

 

[OneFineAcre]

While we need rain I don't envy you at all. Fortunately we live on the top of a hill so flooding would never be likely and same with my goats, the advantage of hillside property. I hope it stays away from you and yes, good thing you didn't book that cruise.

Poor hogs, hope there is no repeat of that.

Keep your fingers crossed
All of the models are starting to shift the track to the east and further away from land

 

[OneFineAcre]

The good news is the hurricane track has shifted even further to the east and will likely not make landfall anywhere in the US.

The bad news is we are still under a state of emergency in NC, SC, and VA because of all of the rain we are already getting and likely flooding
Its pretty bad where I'm at but we are only looking at 6" of rain today and tonight into tomorrow.

A line from Charleston SC up through Greenville, SC and into the Asheville area of NC may get 12".

 

[frustratedearthmother]

So glad the hurricane has shifted tracks!

Still crossing my fingers for ya'll that you don't get too much more rain.