From local CBS-17 in North Carolina,
Three people are dead and at least eight are injured after someone aboard a boat opened fire into a crowd at a waterfront bar in Southport, North Carolina, on Saturday, according to authorities.
You’ve heard of drive-by shootings. This was a sail-by shooting.
Before officers arrived, a boat with a single occupant traveling on the Cape Fear River paused outside of the restaurant, authorities said Sunday. The boater allegedly opened fire into a crowd on land, killing three and injuring at least eight.
“The boat then fled the area, towards the Intracoastal Waterway in the direction of Oak Island,” officials said.
A suspect has been charged,
On Sunday, Sept. 28, Southport Police Chief Todd Coring confirmed that Nigel Max Edge, 40, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and five counts of common law-attempted first-degree murder
He didn’t sail far
The shooter was the lone occupant of the boat. Shortly after 10pm the US Coast Guard observed a person matching the suspect’s description loading their boat on a public ramp, according to town officials.
[Update: the New York Post has an update on the alleged shooter, Nigel Edge, f/k/a Sean DeBevoise.]
All of the above poses a bigger danger to the local population than any tropical storms lurking off the Carolina coast. Also from the U.K. Daily Mail,
Double hurricanes threaten East Coast as Humberto explodes into Category 5 monster.
Be warned,
Humberto is expected to remain a major hurricane through Tuesday, when it is projected to reach its closest point to the US, close enough to deliver intense surf, flooding, and deadly rip currents along East Coast beaches.
“Deadly.” According to this morning’s projection, here is as close as it will come,
But wait, there’s more!
However, forecasters are more concerned with another storm system now feared to strengthen into a hurricane right over the US mainland.
NHC has been tracking Tropical Depression Nine, which they believe will turn into Tropical Storm Imelda by Sunday.
Here’s the projected path, as of this morning, for Tropical Depression 9,
Bad news for the Bahamas, yes. But “over the U.S. mainland? No.
Still aren’t scared?
Moreover, hurricane forecasters have been bracing for a potential Fujiwhara Effect, which takes place when two major cyclones get so close to each other that they start to interact.
Interact? How?
In some cases, a stronger storm, like Humberto, might absorb a weaker one, creating an even more massive weather event than either storm would have been on their own.
If they’re similar in size and strength, however, they might repel each other and get thrown in completely different directions that forecasters won’t be able to project beforehand.
Attract? Repel? We don’t know, but be very, very afraid.
