Chapter 31
Hurricane Franklin hit Cuba as a Category Four and flattened it before turning its eye north and raging up the coast. It bumped into Georgia and slowed down to a two before hitting a warm patch of water off the coast of South Carolina and veering toward the Outer Banks, picking up speed.
The Outer Banks acted like a pinball bumper for the northern half of the East Coast, often knocking hurricanes and tropical storms out to sea and limiting most of the damage to the shorelines. The eastern seaboard usually only had to eat the full force of a hurricane once every half dozen years or so. But it was looking like this was going to be one of those times. Franklin’s outer edge wasn’t slowing at all as it made landfall two hundred miles south of Sandbridge.
Which had Scooter a little
