Hurricane Florence could dump 17 trillion gallons of rain. Yeah, you read that right.

Hurricane Florence is slowly but surely moving toward landfall along the East Coast.

While its winds have decreased, making the storm a Category 2, it's still an incredibly powerful and dangerous storm with extreme rains expected to fall over the course of the next few days in the Carolinas and Virginia as it slows near the coast.

That slowdown could produce historic amounts of rain for that part of the country, if current forecasts hold.

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Meteorologist Ryan Maue of WeatherModels tweeted some projections on Thursday morning.  Read more...

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