Charlotte’s 9/11 Flags of Remembrance Memorial

Romare Bearden Park (300 S. Church St) will honor the victims and first-responders of 9/11 this year with services and a display.

A memorial featuring 2,977 flags set up in the shape of the World Trade Center Towers will be set up on the lawn. A ceremony hosted by the members of FDNY E-217 will begin at 8:15 a.m.

A bell will ring at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m., 9:59 a.m., 10:03 a.m., and 10:28 a.m. to honor the attacks that occurred at those times.

The memorial will be available to visit through Tuesday, Sept. 12.

Day of Remembrance at Rocky River Elementary

Rocky River Elementary was picked as 1 of 50 schools to receive a grant from Youth Service America to honor military families on 9/11. Forty military families are expected to attend with one family in each homeroom this morning as the students learn about the sacrifices that service men and women make on a daily basis to keep us safe and free.

Flag display on Sutton Road bridge in Rock Hill

Patriots of Rock Hill, S.C. will be on Sutton Road between 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m waving a massive flag display to honor Mr. Leonard A. Farrington, who passed away in 2012.

The flag will be displayed over I-77 as thousands of motorists pass through the region.

Cornelius 9/11 Vigil

Members of the Cornelius Fire Department will honor the fallen on 9/11 with a community vigil. The event will feature a single bell toll and moments of silence for when each plane crashed on 9/11, as well as the moment each of the twin towers fell. The event is being held at the 9/11 monument at 19729 S. Main Street in Cornelius.

For more information or to donate to the Cornelius 9/11 Monument, including private or corporate sponsorships, please click here.

Although Hurricane Irma (soon to be Tropical Storm Irma) is headed much further west than previously projected, there is still a danger of high wind gusts, significant rain, and possible tornadoes for the Charlotte region.

The worst weather in Charlotte is expected between 5 p.m. this afternoon and 9 a.m. tomorrow morning with gusts up to 50 mph possible. We can also expect anywhere between 1-3 inches of rain with possible flash-flooding in low areas.

There will be a low possibility of isolated tornadoes around our region for tonight and tomorrow morning.

Here’s a forecast of the potential wind gusts this afternoon at 5pm;

and the potential precipitation tomorrow morning at 2am;

Several schools and daycares in the Charlotte region have already closed today (mostly in South Carolina), including;

As Hurricane Irma continues to plow through the Carribean, its path is becoming increasingly clear to meteorologists.

There is still some question as to when exactly the monster storm will turn, but most projections are now showing the storm making landfall in the Everglades and staying on Florida’s west coast as it makes its way up toward Georgia and Tennessee.

The ECMF spaghetti models are also all indicating an either central, west-coast Florida, or gulf track;

Although given the historic size of Hurricane Irma, the Carolinas (and the rest of the Southeast) will likely see significant rainfall from the storm early next week;

It’s still not a guarantee that the storm will turn exactly when predicted and miss the Carolinas – everyone should still keep an eye on the storm as it moves toward Florida.

Please also consider how you might be able to help people of Florida and the Carribean through donations, offering shelter through CouchSurfing.com, or by planning to help with the clean-up efforts in person over the next few weeks.

Here is just some of the devastation that Irma has already caused in the Virgin Islands;

This aerial video shows the destruction Hurricane #Irma brought to the British Virgin Islands pic.twitter.com/ImTRyak2GF

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 9, 2017