So I am moving to South Carolina next week Friday and this hurricane has me nervous as fuck. I'm from Michigan so this kind of storm is new to me. I look at Texas and know being only 35 min from the coast this could happen to me.
See above posts on getting a hurricane kit together, be ready
before the storm instead of one of these shit-biscuits who wait until the last minute and fight over cases of water.
I'm a transplant from Northern Indiana so we probably experienced similar weather. Hurricanes are like the big evening thunderstorms that fire up in the plains and make their way east, except instead of blowing through in 30-40 minutes, those conditions stay with you for
hours, sometimes days (as Harvey showed). If you're used to the kind of tornado-spawning storm complexes I think you are, you know roughly what to expect in terms of intensity (maybe a bit higher depending on the strength of the hurricane); once the excitement wears off you've still got hours and hours of that crap to deal with (and yes, hurricanes spawn tornadoes, so you're constantly watch for those too).
If you're near the ocean itself, expect the worst flooding you've ever seen on top of all that (that's the storm surge). That's not to say you need to be near the ocean to see flooding (and river or stream will do), but storm surge is a different kind of beast all together.
