Hurricane 2024

[Foggy_Goggles]

Yikes. I've got a lot of friends in Ashville.

[Name Redacted]

Family all over ATL metro. Seems everyone got through ok, no major damage. Tree hit my brother's neighbor's house. Uncle was without power for a day or two. Reminds me when sometime in the 90's there was one of these kinda storms that took out almost every large tree in our back yard. Big mess.

[skaredshtles]

Another one brewing in the western Caribbean

Things are getting busy...

[schindlerpiste]

Wednesday just north of Gatlinberg


This morning:

[concretejungle]

That dock got Pio'd.

[schindlerpiste]

Seriously! The dock came loose. One of the anchor lines snapped. I bet that the repair in the rain was not fun.

Better than the dock floating down the lake, though

[fomofo]

Every river gage that I've seen in the area hit the highest ever recorded level. I think it's officially the worst flooding in the recorded history of the region.



I get (and kinda expect) eastern NC to get hit hard during major storms, but western NC? Just ... wow!

Hopefully there are a bunch of CB/Ham radios spread out in that area.

[stealurface831]

[BmillsSkier]

The destruction in Western NC is just heartbreaking.

Hope everyone’s loved ones and friends in the area are alive and safe.

[Name Redacted]

My uncle lives in Asheville. Apparently his house is fine, but neighborhood is fucked and no power, or cell. He escaped to ATL. Good to hear because it is a really old house that he has just remodeled.

[BmillsSkier]

The destruction in Western NC is just heartbreaking.

Hope everyone’s loved ones and friends in the area are alive and safe.

[mcski]

Oof. High school friend living near clear water lost everything except her life and dog. House gone. Car floated away

[fomofo]

Jesus, that is mind blowing! So devastating.

Obviously the immediate focus needs to be on rescue operations, and then attending to the health and welfare of all the people in the affected areas. But down the line, when things settle a bit, and the cleanup and rebuilding begins, there may be other challenges.



More Post-Storm Fuckery

[Rideski]

Bummer dude. Stay safe amongst the chainsaws.

[frorider]

Oof. High school friend living near clear water lost everything except her life and dog. House gone. Car floated away

Damn. That’s rough.

[doebedoe]

What a weekend. Mom in cedar key luckily just lost her dock . Father in Asheville was incommunicado for 54hrs; but luckily his house is ok and he was able to get out of town yesterday.

And that cough my infant had on Thursday resulted in my first ever Covid positive and I feel like shit.

[bodywhomper]

Glad your folks are relatively ok^^^! And hope your family feels better soon.

Here’s a midday update today from mcdowell county


https://x.com/soapps1979/status/1840...Mbjk5ElmdWLRnQ

Ugh

[warthog]

Just checking in. What did I miss?

No internet, power came back quickly, THANK GOD.
House got 1/2" of water throughout. 3800 sq ft ranch.

Got the water out quickly, but it apparently was 1/2" too much.
Began ripping everything out and cutting walls today.
Neighbors have everything on their lawn for trash to pick up. Complete loss.
We got really lucky. No furniture lost, 3 out of 4 vehicles appear to be fine.

Just being able to tune in to all the news makes me want to shut it off. Just sickening what happened in NC.
That is one of my favorite areas. I hope they can rebound quickly.

Back to drying stuff out and sweating.

[From_the_NEK]

The amount of conspiracy theorists saying the devastating flooding in parts of the southeastern mountains was actually a government controlled climate event is astounding. Instead of admitting that anthropologic climate change is real, they come up with these theories to make themselves feel better?

It is so sad that these areas got devastated the way they did. So many areas that you would think are far enough out of the 100 year flood plain to never get even a few inches on their property, were completely submerged. It is almost unbelievable until you stop and think about what scientists have been saying for 30 years "could" happen as the atmosphere warms and becomes more energetic. Combine this latest historic runoff with infrastructure in floodplains that was never designed to handle that much water and once overwhelmed exacerbate the flooding (e.g. dam breaks) and you have a complete disaster. It isn't a conspiracy, it is where our planet is heading.
Between what happened as a in Upstate NY/Vermont/NH the last two summers as unusually intense storms flooded large areas and this disaster in the SE, it is going to really start to take a toll on many of these rural and semi-rural areas. It may take years to return to "normal" if they ever actually get there.

[muted reborn]

From what my wife is telling me, "bouncing back" is not going to happen for a lot of people in Avery county, nor is getting 'back to normal'. This is where her family lives and where we got married. It's a poor area, poor people don't have insurance for floods and the infinite amount of trailers that are up and down every holler are probably damaged or destroyed, by falling trees, lanslides, mudslides, or floods. I'm sure a lot of trailers are fine too but I'd be worried about anyone in that region right now. FIL and MIL escaped a day ago.

[pfluffenmeister]

The amount of conspiracy theorists saying the devastating flooding in parts of the southeastern mountains was actually a government controlled climate event is astounding. Instead of admitting that anthropologic climate change is real, they come up with these theories to make themselves feel better?

It is so sad that these areas got devastated the way they did. So many areas that you would think are far enough out of the 100 year flood plain to never get even a few inches on their property, were completely submerged. It is almost unbelievable until you stop and think about what scientists have been saying for 30 years "could" happen as the atmosphere warms and becomes more energetic. Combine this latest historic runoff with infrastructure in floodplains that was never designed to handle that much water and once overwhelmed exacerbate the flooding (e.g. dam breaks) and you have a complete disaster. It isn't a conspiracy, it is where our planet is heading.
Between what happened as a in Upstate NY/Vermont/NH the last two summers as unusually intense storms flooded large areas and this disaster in the SE, it is going to really start to take a toll on many of these rural and semi-rural areas. It may take years to return to "normal" if they ever actually get there.

Dovetailing nicely with the "Birds aren't real" social satire campaign:

Dark patch in the middle of the eye of hurricane Helene is actually birds trapped and unable to penetrate the eye wall, or ...

Are the really gubmint controlled climate keepers?

[BmillsSkier]

I don't know if it's my own perspective and the sources of news that I consume, but I feel like my news and social feeds are just absolutely packed with devastating images, one after another, of the flooding damage in Appalachia and when I flip channels or websites I don't see the same level of attention on the national outlets where it's more election coverage, Israel's wars, Ukraine, etc. and then this.

I realize that news reporting topics are not exclusive of one another, but it's overwhelming to think how forever changed these peoples' lives are and how many have been lost, never mind how much has been lost, and that these people could use a lot more light shed on their situation.

[bodywhomper]

I’ve seen that complaint a lot of SM (Twitter). My algorithm seems to be working better than some, maybe because over the week and weekend, I kept searching for a few well informed sources, like dr montano and dr shepherd. I thought the newshour coverage has been fairer.

I’m not seeing much coverage yet about the extremely important quartz mining industry and the long term global economic changes that might result.

[fomofo]

I don't know if it's my own perspective and the sources of news that I consume, but I feel like my news and social feeds are just absolutely packed with devastating images, one after another, of the flooding damage in Appalachia and when I flip channels or websites I don't see the same level of attention on the national outlets where it's more election coverage, Israel's wars, Ukraine, etc. and then this.

All those other things are happening concurrently, and have to (or should) be covered by national news media. I find CBS/CBSN has done a good job of regularly getting stories on this hurricane's damage on their broadcasts. Maybe check it out if you haven't already.

Some of you may find this stuff interesting...

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradi...hurricane_coms

Temporary feed for N2GE 145.190 Mhz, Mt. Mitchell repeater for amateur radio hurricane emergency services.
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/43107

[stealurface831]

From what my wife is telling me, "bouncing back" is not going to happen for a lot of people in Avery county, nor is getting 'back to normal'. This is where her family lives and where we got married. It's a poor area, poor people don't have insurance for floods and the infinite amount of trailers that are up and down every holler are probably damaged or destroyed, by falling trees, lanslides, mudslides, or floods. I'm sure a lot of trailers are fine too but I'd be worried about anyone in that region right now. FIL and MIL escaped a day ago.

I think I’m gonna try to make it up to newland tomorrow if there is anything I can bring to your people.


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