Hurricane Helene / Invest 97L

mindlessobserver said:
Why Georgia? The worst is in NC and Tennessee.
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He will be in Fayetteville NC on Wednesday. It's a couple hundred miles east of the damage but it's probably not a good idea to go anytime soon unless he's helping with search, rescue, and debris clearing.
 
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Confirmed fatalities up to 103.
At least 1,000 missing in Buncombe County, NC. That's at least 0.4% of the population of the whole county.
73 others missing in Tennessee, I believe all from one county.
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Bonesjones said:
Not sure how related it is but a chemical plant just exploded outside of Atlanta earlier today. So now people are having to evacuate from that as well.
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Looked at it a bit and it seems unrelated, although it's not impossible that Helene could have aided in that.

Moderate risk for excessive rainfall in Virginia. Will likely lead to more flash flooding, not to the scale of what we had earlier though.
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ovenmath said:
This is absolutely the kind of levity this thread could use. Got an irl guffaw out of me, and Ive been personally effected by this. Not nearly as much as others, but some priceless family heirlooms I had in storage are most certainly destroyed, and lots of my close friends are either in dire straights or nonresponsive. I just moved away from the area recently.
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I will do my best to appropriately clown and honk my little nose for you and all the farmers affected. It's easy to say they're just things, but man, heirlooms are what they represent about our loved ones who passed on and the love and care they put in and gave to you. I don't think anyone of them would be disappointed in you at all for them going, they'd be upset they're gone but happy you're not. I hope all your friends turn out ok. :heart-full:

Semper fi to all kiwis going through it or know someone going through it. :semperfi:

Bonesjones said:
Not sure how related it is but a chemical plant just exploded outside of Atlanta earlier today. So now people are having to evacuate from that as well.
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@Croaking Spider Stay alive nigga or at least try to mutate into the Croaking-Spider-man.
 
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Burd Turglar said:
This is record breaking shit for the area but still nothing compared to Katrina. Bout 30 years ago there was a hurricane that came in from the east but didn't do fuck all compared to this in the region.
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tbh in a way this is worse than Katrina, people had been warning the New Orleans government that those levies were deathtraps for 20 years which is why NoLA got fucked up so hard, but this is a situation nobody could have stopped, you can't stop rain from falling.
 
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Interstate 40 is going to be closed for months if not years. The river shifted position and is now taking up the eastbound lanes, as well as compromising the side of the mountain it's traveling on. The highway will have to be redirected elsewhere or else major hydro engineering undertaken to force the river back to its original course.

Neither of which can be done cheaply or quickly.

 
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cans.wav said:
tbh in a way this is worse than Katrina, people had been warning the New Orleans government that those levies were deathtraps for 20 years which is why NoLA got fucked up so hard, but this is a situation nobody could have stopped, you can't stop rain from falling.
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The levee that failed in New Orleans for Katrina was because a barge that shouldn't have been there broke loose and crashed through it. Nothing would've prevented that other than the barge not being there.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Interstate 40 is going to be closed for months if not years. The river shifted position and is now taking up the eastbound lanes, as well as compromising the side of the mountain it's traveling on. The highway will have to be redirected elsewhere or else major hydro engineering undertaken to force the river back to its original course.

Neither of which can be done cheaply or quickly.

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Yeah, if we ever need to go straight west for anything, we’re screwed-a-roony. Can’t get to or out of NC without using some circuitous route now.
 
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Anybody know if Mt Airy, North Carolina is fine?
I've always wanted to visit it for the Andy Griffith and Siamese Twins museum. It occurred to me that, like the Biltmore, it might be destroyed.
Likewise I assume the Eastern Band Cherokee may be completely screwed. It would be a horrible tragedy if that small population (continuously living in the land for hundreds of years) were basically destroyed in the flooding.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Interstate 40 is going to be closed for months if not years. The river shifted position and is now taking up the eastbound lanes, as well as compromising the side of the mountain it's traveling on. The highway will have to be redirected elsewhere or else major hydro engineering undertaken to force the river back to its original course.

Neither of which can be done cheaply or quickly.

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It's a shame because I've been on I-40 in the western side of North Carolina a couple of times (when going down to florida from the midwest) and going through the mountains was always a nice drive.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Anybody know if Mt Airy, North Carolina is fine?
I've always wanted to visit it for the Andy Griffith and Siamese Twins museum. It occurred to me that, like the Biltmore, it might be destroyed.
Likewise I assume the Eastern Band Cherokee may be completely screwed. It would be a horrible tragedy if that small population (continuously living in the land for hundreds of years) were basically destroyed in the flooding.
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I checked, looks like it was spared from any damage.
 
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