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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5987142" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>More so because the rain ran off the surrounding mountains causing mud slides and fast moving floods.  The same amount in Florida wouldn't cause anywhere near the devastation.  In Florida we know the real danger is on the coast between high winds and storm surge.  But go inland 50 miles and the hurricane is usually much weaker.  What hit NC wasn't a hurricane.  The winds had already dropped well below hurricane strength.  At that point it was a tropical depression loaded with moisture.  If it had hit eastern NC it wouldn't have done near the destruction that hitting those mountains did.</p></blockquote><p></p>