“This is not going to be a tropical storm. This is not going to be one of those storms that hit and move out to sea. This is going to be, you know, a Mike Tyson punch to the Carolina coast.” It’s always a bad sign when FEMA officials run out of decent analogies to describe how bad a storm will be. (Bottom line: if your name isn’t Buster Douglas, evacuate.) Here’s the latest of Flo’s path.

+ It used to be that when conversations shifted towards touchy subjects like politics or religion, you could always change the subject to something less divisive, like the weather. Those days are gone. The polarization of Hurricane Florence.

+ North Carolina didn’t like science on sea levels … so they passed a law against it.