The time has come to start worrying and preparing and if you live on the South Carolina coast, it's time to start leaving. After several days of slowly approaching from deep in the Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Florence began to rapidly intensify early Monday, becoming a major category 3 hurricane and then a category 4 storm just a few hours later. The National Hurricane Center currently predicts that Florence will make landfall as a major storm (at least category 3) along the Carolina coast as early as Thursday, with impacts beginning to be felt from approaching winds Wednesday evening. In response, South Carolina governor Henry McMaster announced a mandatory evacuation of the state's entire 187 miles of coastline. Stay tuned here and at the National Hurricane Center for further updates.

Source: Forbes September 10, 2018 17:57 UTC