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Watch: Hurricane Florence webcams show storm’s intensity

Steven Adams
By Steven Adams
1 Min Read Sept. 13, 2018 | 8 years Ago
| Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:21 a.m.
An American flag is now in shreds as Hurricane Florence hits Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower.
The internet allows us to experience things — sometimes dangerous things — from a safe distance.

Thanks to live-streaming webcams, viewers can witness the power of Hurricane Florence without being a thrillseeking weather reporter on the scene.

Here are a few webcams in the thick of it all:

Rehoboth Boardwalk Cam

Commander Hotel Ocean City, MD

Myrtle Beach, SC

Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower

This webcam is on a steel tower in the Atlantic Ocean.

Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower is a decommissioned lighthouse built on the ocean floor and rising above the water’s surface 34 miles off the North Carolina coast. A pair of cameras, above and below the sea, are broadcasting Hurricane Florence to the world.

There’s an upper cam:

And a camera mounted underwater to let you see how marine life experiences a storm passing above:

Does this make you want to visit Frying Pan tower? Here’s a video of one of the world’s most extreme B&Bs.