Haven't heard from @ReadySetMillionaire since Thursday.
I hope the wedding went well and there were no issues for him. OTOH, if things are troublesome, I hope he finds a solution that has the lowest impact on his family. Best case, I hope he's still down there assisting with the evacuees.
Thanks for the concern. Everything went completely fine. We checked the weather non-stop all last week, and Greenville was not expected to be affected at all, and it wasn't. There were some winds, but I experienced worse when I lived up in Cleveland. They probably got less than a half inch of rain, if that.
After the wedding, we took a good route from Greenville to Statesville (where my wife's aunt lives), which took us more north and more away from the coast, and that drive was very easy. Statesville never lost power and did not have anything close to what was predicted (we would have gone west to Chattanooga if they did get hit).
We drove home yesterday from Statesville without any problems.
At the wedding, we learned 4 of the 130 guests decided not to go. Bride was from Cincinnati, groom was from NE Ohio, so 95% of the guests came from out of town.
Lastly, I just want to address this:
Before reading the thread, to myself i said “i’ve read enough posts by this poster to know that no matter what anyone says, or how bad the hurricane is, he is going”.
After skimming the thread: All this thread did was waste the time of many responders, and give us all an answer to the question everyone is asking nowadays: “why are there people that stay behind during hurricane evacuations when all authorities are warning them?”
I actually started this thread trying a prove to my wife that we *shouldn't* go. Go read my original posts in this thread -- I hate bad weather (which is why I live in Ohio), and I was scared to death of this thing, but I was leaning towards going because my wife desperately wanted to go to the wedding so we could also swing by and tell her grandfather (who she loves beyond words) that she's pregnant in person.
I started this thread to try and dissuade her. I showed this thread to her constantly in the early parts of the week.
But as the week went on, the forecast changed. The hurricane slowed down to a screeching halt, and then it was projected to slow down even more over Wilmington. And it was projected to reach Wilmington Friday night -- and Wilmington is almost 350 miles from where the wedding was.
I appreciate the responses and the concern, but the responses that resonated were from (a) people who lived there who weren't worried, and (b) people who advised to monitor the weather. I did just that and ultimately made the decision that it was safe to go.
If you think I'm incapable of listening to people on here, read this thread, in which I've basically made entire career decisions based (in part) on responses from the kind lawyers in that thread.
https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ask-a-mustachian/employment-dilemma-take-new-job/