After its landfall, our best weather models continue to show an abject flooding catastrophe for North Carolina and Virginia.

As much as 48 inches of rain could fall. For perspective, that's almost *double* the previous all-time record for an East Coast hurricane.

Unfathomable. pic.twitter.com/uIph8LikKk

— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 10, 2018