As southern and mid-Atlantic states along the East Coast brace for Hurricane Florence, consumers are flocking to home improvement and hardware stores like Home Depot and Lowe's.

People are taking this storm very seriously with stores and homes being boarded up.

Lowe's and Home Depot have emergency command centers monitoring Florence and thousands of trucks loaded and ready to go to stores in the storm's path ...

Investors have many factors to consider with Home Depot (HD -0.9%) and Lowe's (LOW -0.4%) when gauging the impact of Hurricane Florence on their businesses, notes Consumer Edge Research's David ...