'Watch out, America!': Astronauts in space photographed Hurricane Florence and they say the view is 'chilling' by Dave Mosher on Sep 12, 2018, 1:06 PM Advertisement
 Alexander Gerst, a German astronaut who's currently orbiting Earth from 250 miles up, has a warning for humans on the planet below him. "Watch out, America!" Gerst, who joined the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) in June, said Wednesday via a tweet featuring pictures he took of Hurricane Florence. "[T]his is a no-kidding nightmare coming for you." Hurricane Florence is a Category-4 storm that's headed for the US East Coast and predicted to start impacting South Carolina and North Carolina as early as Thursday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. Due to the storm's enormous size and power, it's been a recent — if not frightening — muse for astronaut photography. Here are some of the best images of Hurricane Florence by Gerst and Ricky Arnold, a fellow NASA astronaut who's also living on board the ISS. SEE ALSO: An astronaut photographed the 'blood moon' from the International Space Station, and his pictures are haunting DON'T MISS: 27 of the most iconic, jaw-dropping photos of the Earth and the moon from space Gerst said Hurricane Florence is so enormous, with a width of more than 500 miles, that he "could only capture her with a super wide-angle lens."  Source: Twitter
When the space station flew over the storm's menacing eye, Gerst took this photo. "Get prepared on the East Coast," he warned.  Source: Twitter
But Gerst also had a high-power telephoto lens handy to zoom in on the eye.  Source: Twitter
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