What North Carolina is likely to get out of Ian is nothing compared to what Florida got, and perhaps parts of South Carolina too.
But it could still be a problem: Duke Power sent out a text blast today warning people to expect power outages and they might not be over quickly either.
We’ve been this way before. When Hurricane Fran plowed through Raleigh in 1996, it knocked us offline for days. We got back on because work was up - home took a couple of weeks.
This won’t be anything like that - at least it shouldn’t be - but it could knock us out for a day or three so we thought we ought to mention it.