Did anyone here experience Helene? Perhaps you wouldn't be on line if you did.
Anyone waiting, right now, in her path?
"Flooding and tornadoes were forecast across much of the Southeast, and 'significant landslides' were predicted across the southern Appalachians through Friday. In Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., nearly 400 miles from Florida’s Gulf Coast, forecasters warned that the storm could be one of the region’s 'most significant weather events' in modern history."
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Having experienced Beryl earlier this year, I think it is a rather safe bet that those who experienced Helene yesterday probably aren't blogging today.
Just a little while ago the eye of the storm passed right over Clemson SC (i.e. where we live). Amazingly enough we still have electricity. There are trees down all over town. Very windy before and after, but it seems to be all gone now.
Having power is very good news. Hope the damage isn't too severe and the cleanup is uneventful.
Heavy rain right now on SE NC coast. But we don't expect much compared to the 18" we got in the last storm. We're on the periphery.
I'm in south Atlanta metro.
Lots of rain related to Helene (supposedly 12" in the last 24 hours) on top of significant rain received earlier this week. Flood emergency warnings in place until this evening throughout the Atlanta metro area. Far less wind than expected since the storm path moved to the East. Therefore, fewer trees downed or power outages, but I understand our specific area fared better than other portions of Atlanta metro.
In central NC we have gusty winds and slight rain with heavier rains coming. Tornado warning until this evening since we’re near the edge of where the upper right quadrant will pass.
Worse things have happened to Bobbitts.
My local weather girl just told everyone to get in their "tornado safe spaces so you won't be triggered."
The remnants are being felt here in Oak Ridge, TN as I write this- I can hear the wind gusts every few seconds outside. Unfortunately for east Tennesse we are getting this after 3 days of non-stop rain- the flooding in areas around Knoxville and further east is going to be catastrophic.
'It looks like a nuclear bomb went off,' said Michael Bobbitt
respectfully, this sure was written by someone with little experience with "nuclear bomb"s
i'm willing to guess, that the firestorms were MUCH LESS Severe..
to say Nothing of the fallout (which, admittedly doesn't "look" that bad)
Can we list this hurricane's targets, in Megadeaths? i Thought NOT
I live 7 miles east of Crystal River Florida, heavy winds and bands of rain earlier this morning. Crystal River has record amounts of flooding. Fortunately we escaped any damage and electricity still flowing..Living in-land is the way to go.
I guess Bobbit is going to have to write a sequel to "Cedar Key."
There have been at least three storm-related deaths. Catastrophic wind damage from the storm could cause power outages that will “likely last days..
i stand Corrected, it WAS; EXACTLY like a nuclear bomb.. Except for the damage and the deaths
Well... the wind is kicking up again. But it really is almost gone. My heavily wooded back yard is a total mess.
Bob Boyd is correct. Who wouldn’t rather ride out a hurricane than drive America’s highways in search of one’s dismembered willy?
There are many large trees down in the community, including two across our street. We could drive out down the hiking path if we had to. It’s just a little breezy now. No power. 380k reported out from our utility. We have batteries for internet but no generator. Our neighbors are humming along…
I'm in Jacksonville. It passed a little closer than we had anticipated, but not much wind (< 40 here) and the fast moving nature of the storm didn't stress out trees as badly as many of these do. I have friends who bugged out from Wakulla County (just south of Tallahassee) which was evacuated door to door in their area. They live on waterfront and don't know what they will find when they go home - that said, this is as routine as anything like this can ever be. Tornadoes were our biggest concern. Lovely and sunny here this AM - never lost power at my house, which is a bit of a miracle to this reader.
Here in "further east" TN (Johnson City) it is a mess. Heavy flooding in the mountains. Somehow though we still have power. Asheville NC, 60 miles south of us, is catastrophe.
Youngsters from the PNW in our family were staying with us and were freaked out by the winds and noise. I slept through most of it. They headed towards Savannah airport in a rented jeep. Last communication was a pic of them sitting on the plane hoping to take off..
I live in Hollywood, just south of Fort Liquordale.
The local TV media hyped up the approaching storm's effect on us; they just can't help themselves.
We got a little rain, some winds gusting 20-25 from the outer bands coming through.
I sure feel sorry for those poor pilgrims in the path of Helene. There's nothing with the long-lasting destructiveness of flood water.
BTW, my house sits at the highest point of natural elevation in Broward County, a little west of I-95. I tell people we could still possibly flood, but we'll flood last.
We’re in the remains of it right now, in Knoxville. (Hi, Yancy, didn’t realize we were so close!) They’ve been warning about flash floods, but all has looked clear so far. Expecting done high winds early afternoon, and my brother said he lost power, but everything seems basically OK so far.
My mother and father live in Clearwater Beach (not there now). Their property is seven feet above sea level. A slight hill up to their home, another three steps up to the front doors adds an additional two feet or so. So we're wondering if the storm surge got that high. Their home is an old Sears (!) kit home and there aren't too many around anymore. So it would suck to lose it. Plus they have no insurance because insurance premiums were (somehow) in the $ 40 to $ 50,000 range. Doesn't matter because the insurance companies refuse to pay out in the event of a hurricane in any case...
"respectfully, this sure was written by someone with little experience with "nuclear bomb"s"
I know. A lot of water involved.
The only near-hurricane I ever experienced was Irene in 2011 in Newtown, CT. We lost power for almost a week.
I’m headed to Atlanta this afternoon, but it looks like most of the rain will have gone by then.
I’m headed to Atlanta this afternoon, but it looks like most of the rain will have gone by then.
Thankful now I didn't buy that house in Homosassa!
I was where Superstorm Sandy hit. The area was devastated for years. They warned us for days. I had the car packed to evacuate if need be. We had no power for 2 weeks,, and lost it again for a few days when we were struck with a snowstorm soon after. Lucky for us, we had a fireplace to keep us warm, a gas stove to cook on, and I have a battery for my CPAP machine. Hubby charged his phone in the car. Couldn't get gas anywhere near us, but they were warning us to stay off the roads, and blocked entrance into Point Pleasant from people who didn't live there to stop anybody from robbing homes.
Not having TV, I had no clue how bad it really was!!
We love Cedar Key. Its Key West of 50 years ago. We are supposed to be there in about a month. This is the third hurricane in just over a year for them and we're worried about the people and their businesses. They are still cleaning up after a fire from a week ago that destroyed a lot of the dock area businesses. We're praying they have something to go back to.
Here in the low SW corner of Tennessee we're getting some light but steady rain, which is good for the drought.
Sorry to hear about everyone's troubles, of course.
Has MSNBC blamed Trump yet?
I'm in Sarasota here. But I'm enough inland that I did not feel any surge issues. We had on again, off again heavy winds and rain. However, all of the barrier islands in this area, Siesta Key, Lido Key/St. Armand's Key, Longboat Key, and up through the Bradenton coastal areas of Bradenton Beach, Holmes Beach, and Anna Maria Island were all under water to various degrees (or should I say, feet?).
But all in all, we were lucky here. Even just a few miles north of us, into St. Pete and Tampa it was much worse. And, of course, in the Big Bend area, then up into Georgia and the Carolinas, they are having massive flooding.
I've lived through enough of these to know that it comes down to luck. Literally a few degrees of shift in these hurricanes can make the difference between a night like we had (high winds and rain) or a night like those north of us had (higher winds, heavier rain, and massive water surge and flooding).
For us, it's part of the living here. We know it and accept it to go with what we love about living here. But I don't think the people in Valdosta, GA, Atlanta, GA, Asheville, NC or other Carolina and Georgia towns were thinking this was part of their deal.
were any n-bomb tested by dropping into sea/ocean/lake/puddle?
My wife's son and grandson and their families spent the last two weeks on the pan handle coast and got out back to Oregon a day ahead of the storm.
I'm in northeast Georgia. Our power has been out for 2 1/2 hours. Half the county is out of power according to the outage map. We have a lot of downed trees and limbs and the wind is still pretty strong. Our property borders a creek that we normally can't see from the house. I can look out the window and see it this morning. And, it is still rising and will be for the rest of today. A couple state roads and several county roads are closed because bridges are under water.
It hasn't been exactly rosy. We have a power cord run from the RV generator to a power strip in the house to run a few things. I have coffee and the internet along with two lamps running. It could be worse.
My brother has lived a bit north of Newtown, CT since '98. He finally broke down and got a generator to run the new sump pump so his cellar won't flood again. He's near the top of a hill, but he can't seem to divert the stream down his outside cellar steps.
My grandparents' former lake cottage in flat, eastern NC got 36" from Matthew? in 2018, which must have been fun.
We're having an hour of heavy rain and moderate wind here in central NC. It isn't hanging around.
It's been raining since Wednesday. Not very much wind though. I expected to be woken up by the wind during the night. But it wasn't very windy. The storm went further east than expected. The rain let up and we went down to see how high the water was at the creek by our house. It was the highest we've ever seen.
If they won’t, CNN and ABC surely will.
did not Trump divert a hurricane with marker-pen
Washington Post: Trump was the one who altered Dorian trajectory map with Sharpie
It was raining hard this morning all the way up in Virginia’s Sbenandoah Valley, and the forecast is for light rain off and in until after sunset. This being blamed on the outer bands of Helene. I don’t know if that’s right; perhaps MadisonMan can weigh in?
Lorena threw it out the window and it hit the windshield of an elderly couple going the other way.
The old lady said to her husband, "Wow! Did you see the dick on that bug?"
Here in Mooresville, NC (Lake Norman, 20 miles north of Charlotte) we have had driving rain and whipping wind, but (jinx alert) haven't lost power and the storm is due to subside over the next hour or two. Duke Energy owns the lake and our neighborhood has buried electrical, and we rarely have power outages. Coincidence? Back when we lived on Long Island, Irene (2005) knocked our power out for a week. We installed a generator, so when Sandy (2011) plunged our neighborhood into darkness for 10 days, we were the destination for neighbors coming over for coffee.
On the east coast of Florida, and this was pretty much a non-event. Very windy and gusty around midnight, but surprisingly not much rain at all. Folks on the west coast got hit pretty hard...
The wife and I rode out a Category 4 hurricane — Earl in 2010 — when we were trapped vacationing on a Caribbean island with no safe way off. The resort staff kept us fed and safe until it passed, and in a remarkable display of resilience the local grocery store and all or nearly all of the island’s restaurants were open the day after it passed. Every single deciduous tree or bush was uprooted but only one palm didn’t make it — the tallest palm had its trunk snapped off about 2/3 of the way up.
3, 2, 1 Kamala visiting the disaster making word salad...
I reside west of the Big Bend in the Panama City Beach area, but still happen to be up in Minnesota as I had a grandson's birthday yesterday. The area from Port St. Joe around the corner to Appalachicola and up through St. Marks is absolutely beautiful and US 98 generally follows the coast along there. One of the best bicycle trails runs from St. Marks up to Tallahassee, and I am hoping the nice bed and breakfast in St. Marks survived the storm.
Pretty bad storm but they greatly over-estimated the rainfall totals. in the late afternoon I watched the predicted rainfall totals fall from 12 to 18 inches across most of Georgia to 2 to 4 inches.
Like a said, a bad storm but not catastrophic rain across large areas of the Southeast. Another Global Warming Apocalypse avoided.
Louisville, KY - rain and occasional high winds. Not as bad (so far) as when we got the storm from Hurricane Ike in 2008. There were power outages then. We lost power for about a week.
Schools were closed today because of the weather. The local school system relies a lot on busses - we still bus for integration - and I can see not wanting high profile vehicles full of kids on the roads with these gusts.
There must be other concerns, though, because they've postponed the St. X -Trinity football game until tomorrow night. (Two Catholic high schools play each year for tens of thousands of fans.)
Florida continues on its path to being a home insurance no-go zone.
The Sunshine State is already the only insurer in many areas.
This trend will continue.
Those of us who live in the evidence based world know exactly what the root cause of this is.
👍 hung like a Rhinoceros beetle!
Yes, some n-bombs and the largest US h-bomb, look up Castle Bravo. Lots of water involved.
“Those of us who live in the evidence based world…”
They/them sez, sans evidence.
BidenFlation? Bernie Sanders economic policies in return for the nomination?
In Tampa. One non evacuee on an island in the bay had water chin high. Ok, they aren't that tall but... another non evacuee at the beach near the putt putt were on an inflatable mattress floating around their house for a while. Left over is this sandy slush. Nother place newer house they had to build to 9 feet, it got so close but only garage flooded, their neighbors not so lucky. He's over helping cousin get situated after they flooded. I'm waiting around to see if I can move back into the Home where I've been a couple months. I'm back in my modest condo that is not so safe but is high and dry. Electric went out for a while but the oxygen tanks would'av lasted a couple days.
There was green alligators and palmetto bugs
Some humpty-backed kamalas and some chewers of the rugs
Some cats and rats and anacondas, but if that gives you the creeps
They all get eaten by the Haitian peeps
h/t Irish Rovers
Main thing everybody says is how quickly the water rose once it got going.
We had two days of drenching rains in northeast Georgia (near Dawsonville, progenitor of moonshine and NASCAR) from another storm, then we got walloped with rain, but, amazingly, we never lost power or internet. Thank you, tough men of Suwanee Electric, and thank you for your annual hot dog, strawberry ice cream, and Sousaphone concerts.
Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Marietta, the northern suburbs all took it in the teeth. All around us. Must be our scary corn mazes.
It's also lucky to live in a hainted holler.
I fear my old house in Ruskin, Florida may be gone, even though I cut off drywall two feet up and Red Devilled the living heck out of it inside and out (a latex-like product that cures like a pool liner). I highly recommend this wherever you get dampness. On buildings, not your privates. The surge tide signs were higher than my roof. My dear professor's 110+ year old home across the street has a foot of water in it for the first time, and it is on a good berm with very high pillars for the crawlspace. When Tampa Bay floods, it's like flushing a toilet into the southside of the bay.
I have not heard from several West Coast Florida friends but suspect it is power outages.
If you want to stay in Florida, buy Lloyd's of London insurance. They invented insurance. It's about 90% cheaper than other companies. It's been around since the late 1600s.
Also, thank you for the Linemen for the County, and your brave peers. What would we do without manly men, despite their hair choices, which really have improved, mostly?
I have family visiting here in Wisconsin from The Tampa-Clearwater area. Very thankful they safe here, but we don't know what they'll be going home to next week-it sounds like Pinellas Co. was hit really hard...
Havent seen BUT TRUMPs yet, but the democrats are out with their conspiracies already blaming DeSantis:
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/09/27/fl-senator-ron-desantis-removed-climate-change-from-florida-law-n2401477
I'm actually just pissed off about the Braves/Mets playoff. Have to wear the Mets rally shirt another weekend. It smells like the cats got to it.
Time to eat the cats. Sorry. Our road is probably fine but washed out. Plus, the cats know the terms of our coexistence. They would eat us. Coexistence doesn't always mean what it implies.
We lived in south Florida for several years, and went through a number of hurricanes. Floridians know how to deal with these crises. Building codes have been improved, etc. My only major complaint is that the government didn't bury their power lines. We used to flee north until we got word that the power was back on in FLL And that took much longer than it should have.
North Georgia, just west of Lake Lanier. A LOT of rain; we put out a couple of different containers and measured at least 7" over less than 24 hours. Fair amount of wind, though I don't recall it being overly strong. Our lights flickered a bit but we never lost power. Funny thing, we headed down to the airport (south side of Atlanta) at 1000 ET this morning, and by the time I hit the Perimeter (I285 beltway around Atlanta), I turned off the windshield wipers. I'd been worried about the trip but it was actually faster than usual (less vehicles on the road).
At the Keys on Tuesday, then Flew from Miami to Nashville on Thursday. 'twas a bit windy. Monitored the hurricane as it formed and built to almost a 'perfect storm' moving very quickly. Demonstrated how big Florida actually is.
I experienced Helene in a small town in Georgia. We were only a few miles from the eyewall.. we got blaster. No electricity, no water, no cell service. Can't call a guy I knew had a chainsaw. No electricity equals no gas stations open equals no gas for chain saws. I am on the road coming hi one to the Midwest and now have consistent cell service and just now seeing this post.
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