Hurricane Helene / Invest 97L
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Nuthatches
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- 12 de Dic, 2022
Western NC is one of my favorite places. It’s where my family originally settled. I was planning on moving there a couple years ago but we stuck around where we currently are.
This is devastating. There are people stuck in homes awaiting helicopter evac and I haven’t heard from friends/acquaintances. People have no idea how bad it is there, a lot of homes are very rural and difficult to access. Unpaved roads, uneven terrain, extremely steep slopes etc. I pray that enough people evacuated but places I planned on taking my kids to are completely gone now.
This is devastating. There are people stuck in homes awaiting helicopter evac and I haven’t heard from friends/acquaintances. People have no idea how bad it is there, a lot of homes are very rural and difficult to access. Unpaved roads, uneven terrain, extremely steep slopes etc. I pray that enough people evacuated but places I planned on taking my kids to are completely gone now.
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- 12 de Dic, 2022
This is absolutely what happened. The storm itself didn't sound like a bad one, it was the amount of rain that fell that flooded creeks streams and rivers that typically never get that much rainfall, then the winds that came later didn't help and uprooted trees that also aren't used to the ground being so soggy. That's what makes this all feel a little extra crazy, as the worst of the storm was going on it didn't sound much worse than a regular thunderstorm. Then you come outside and the sun is shining and skies are blue and roads are flooded and trailers are pushed up against trees and debris is everywhere.
A couple more details that might be of interest to people, I was able to get in contact with my sibling thank god. The town he's in got fucked bad, they had to attempt to rescue people with rafts and then bring in a helicopter to lift people to safety. Most non-chain businesses are closed. Some street lights are out and cops are herding traffic. There are still bottled water in store and they seem to have ordered extra in preparation which was a relief. People on oxygen are having a tough time right now with supplies running out and the electricity being down. Just about everywhere has a water boil advisory if you even have running water. Sooo many bridge collapses on important roadways. What's really wild is depending on your proximity to the water, this was either the worst storm of your life or just a little inconvenience. My coworkers were wondering why I didn't make it to work yesterday lol. I feel gutted for the places that have it worse and the people that have died or had their lives changed forever. The community is really strong right now, people helping people and such.
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- 19 de Ene, 2020
This is Katrina level horrifying. Even knowing all the rain and the terrain in the area this is fucking insane. The only other thing I can think of is how bad are the feds going to fuck up the response and how deliberate will that fuck up be.
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- 6 de Ene, 2019
Appalachia is mainly poorer and white isnt it? I imagine the federal response will be crap and the local guys will be doing above and beyond trying to save people.
. Katrina showed people that if you’re poor, the state doesn’t care one bit, regardless of what colour you are. I hoped that would lead to some reflection but it never does. It’s the same here - poor working class or high unemployment areas are left to rot while Notting Hill carnival gets seven thousand police .
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- 10 de Dic, 2023
Local EMS is sacrificing their lives to save people right now. They are heroes.
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- 19 de Ene, 2020
The area I live on the edge of northern Appalachia got similarly rekt by Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Agnes made landfall as a category 1 in Florida but also made it pretty far inland as the eastern side of the storm swung back out over the Atlantic. Pennsylvania was the worst hit and the town I'm in is right along the Schuylkill river. Agnes produced a record crest of 19 feet and the building I'm in would've had a few feet of water in the lower level. 3/4 roads out of town would've been cut but at least route 61 is significantly higher up and you drive uphill to get out that way
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- 6 de Ene, 2019
Do you know if the area around Raleigh is bad? RTP is there and a lot of colleagues in the area. I think it’s probably out of the main bit hit, but just wondering what work will do Monday
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- 18 de Jul, 2017
Its also hard to get information out of the area because of how remote it is. There are quite a few hollers between the mountains that barely get cell phone signals, let alone internet. And with their tenuous connection to the electrical system and hard line telephone service down these areas are essentially cut off. We have no idea how bad it actually is yet. Major Interstates are knocked out. The mountain access roads might as well be the upper pass into Mordor.
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- 10 de Dic, 2023
Do you know if the area around Raleigh is bad? RTP is there and a lot of colleagues in the area. I think it’s probably out of the main bit hit, but just wondering what work will do Monday
Just outside the main area. Nothing major is there as far as I'm aware, but everything west of that has issues.
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- 1 de Sep, 2018
Raleigh is far enough into the costal plain they should be mostly fine. That said, I haven't heard from my friend that live in the Raleigh area, but there is a very good chance he's working dealing with storm clean up.
I just want to point out that FEMA is not a rapid response group even by federal standards. They are middle managers. Local authorities bring them problems and they either assign federal assets or pay contractors to fix them. They generally don't go beyond pre-positioning and planning for 48 hours.
As far as New Orleans and Katrina, the city had a long standing plan to evacuate a metric shitload of people using the school district's buses. Nobody knew this was the plan and all the bus drivers with their valid licenses and functional personal vehicles evacuated before anyone tried to enact the plan.
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- 6 de Ene, 2019
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- 10 de Dic, 2023
AccuWeather estimates total damage + economic loss could be between $95 billion to $110 billion dollars. It did not take long to hit the 12 figure mark. Source
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- 18 de Jul, 2017
The fact Tennessee is requesting intervention by Virginia in its Eastern Counties paints a grim picture for the epicenter of the disaster in Western NC.
Speaking of just what the biggest issue right now is, its landslides. The high wind uprooted trees on the mountain side, which compromised the structural integrity of the soil. Dump a foot of Rain on that, and well, it all comes sliding off. Picture an Avalanche, but with Boulders and Mud. Landslides in Appalachia are especially dangerous because of the geology of the mountains. They are fucking old extinct volcanoes left over from the Pangaea central mountain chains. Which means underneath that very thin layer of dirt is an aggregate of massive volcanic rocks barely holding together.
So a landslide in Appalachia is not a "Mudslide". Its more of a "Boulder Slide". And By boulder, I mean massive rocks that weigh in the metric tons moving down the mountain at about 50 MPH.
Someone on the highway decided to stream the aftermath of them barely surviving one of these.
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- 10 de Dic, 2023
No, this is not an old model run. This is for October 6th. We're going to get another hurricane further east.
It's still very far out so we don't have intensity estimates or any specific location it'll impact, but god this is the last thing we need right now.
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- 21 de Ago, 2018
One of my neighbors was visiting Asheville during this and his brother has been unable to get ahold of him. I hope he's okay.
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- 14 de Jun, 2020
Can confirm the National Guard is mobilizing quickly. Just watched all of our Lakotas leave this morning.
Local YMCAs, gyms, warehouses, and other businesses are opening up across the state to bring in people. My area is preparing to take in as many as possible.
NASCAR teams that are based here are donating their aircraft and helicopters for immediate relief. They were some of the first people to land in AVL. They’ve done it before during hurricanes, bless them.
It’s a terrible time for NC. Pray for us.
Local YMCAs, gyms, warehouses, and other businesses are opening up across the state to bring in people. My area is preparing to take in as many as possible.
NASCAR teams that are based here are donating their aircraft and helicopters for immediate relief. They were some of the first people to land in AVL. They’ve done it before during hurricanes, bless them.
It’s a terrible time for NC. Pray for us.
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- 13 de Dic, 2022
I have a bad feeling that we'll get some pretty bad images and info in the next week. With so little access to internet/power/cell there's not much coming out from the people cut off to show the full extent of the damage.
East of there is Rocky Mount and they got a tornado that tore up the place.
Some minor flooding and downed trees. Only a small number of people out of power from the looks of it. Should be cleared pretty quickly.Do you know if the area around Raleigh is bad? RTP is there and a lot of colleagues in the area. I think it’s probably out of the main bit hit, but just wondering what work will do Monday
East of there is Rocky Mount and they got a tornado that tore up the place.
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- 1 de Jun, 2020
I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, but because it's relevant to one of the locations you mentioned, semi-popular retro enthusiast YouTuber LazyGameReviews (more commonly known by LGR) was apparently put out of home and livelihood by storm damages due to Helene. Just as a matter of note.
However you may feel about the guy, it really sucks hard since he's only been living in his Asheville property for about a year or so now.