wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 2 hours ago, purduewx80 said: Great thank you, I assumed what I had read was a mission I read about 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 I-40 mile at mile maker 6 is gone closed indefinitely, many bridges are gone in places, rock slides, mud slides. Bridges gone in TN. Wild 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Up to 42 deaths... worst case scenario, people didn't need warnings and got trapped and died, you could have several hundred dead when all is said and done. Best case scenario, everyone's been smart and maybe up to 100 have lost they're life's in total. I'm hoping for 2nd choice at this point. So much destruction, Helene will be retired and removed from list no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Amazed are how high power outages in Eastern GA and Western SC. Basically all of Augusta GA has no power, same with Greenville County, SC Obviously, rightfully a lot of focus has been on the surge in Florida and very bad flooding in western NC. but large swath of inland wind damage also. Many of the deaths were from falling trees is both GA and SC. Here is link to some pics from Valdosta, GA Valdosta GA damage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalicwx367 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 18 hours ago, buckeyefan1 said: Did you forget your old log in? You need another red tag sir and it's nice to see you drop in. I'm getting the same texts from friends there as I wait for it to arrive here Yep. I tried resetting the password but it wouldn't let me log back into that account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishingForWarmWeather Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Hi y’all. I can’t figure out how to embed tweets but this is one of the most beautiful hurricane gifs I’ve ever seen. Please do yourself the favor and click on this sentence. It’s a link to a gif of Helene’s post-tropical transition. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Wow hospital in TN had to do evacuation by helicopter from roof for 45 people water nearly to roof! https://www.knoxnews.com/videos/weather/2024/09/27/helene-floods-trap-dozens-hospital-roof-tennessee-helicopter-rescue/75417195007/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floydbuster Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithiaWx Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 45 deaths so far with only 2 deaths reported in NC. I'm afraid that number will go way up in NC as we get access to the most hit areas. The area of the country we are talking about is rural, spread-out and sometimes isolated places. They can easily be cutoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Taylor County has 99.6%without power, only 29 people have power wow Taylor County of Florida Customers Tracked 13,998 Customers Out 13,969 Outage % 99.79% Last Updated 2024-09-27 11:45:38 PM Electric Providers Customers Tracked Customers Out Duke Energy 6,069 6,057 Tri-County Electric Coop 7,929 7,912 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 In Lafayette only 2 people have power. Hamilton 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Quite spectator that anyone in ground 0 zone of landfall have power right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 I wonder if I'll be going down south to help out with fire dept. I haven't heard of any requests as of yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted September 28 Author Share Posted September 28 25 minutes ago, WishingForWarmWeather said: Hi y’all. I can’t figure out how to embed tweets but this is one of the most beautiful hurricane gifs I’ve ever seen. Please do yourself the favor and click on this sentence. It’s a link to a gif of Helene’s post-tropical transition. Thank you for sharing. Reposting for people that may be hesitant to click a link. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wthrmn654 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Holy shisters these are rainfall amounts from 11 am! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishingForWarmWeather Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 1 hour ago, WxWatcher007 said: Thank you for sharing. Reposting for people that may be hesitant to click a link. Thank you so much for doing that. 007, how did your chase go for one? And for two, can you teach me how to post it like you did so I can do that in the future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted September 28 Author Share Posted September 28 14 minutes ago, WishingForWarmWeather said: Thank you so much for doing that. 007, how did your chase go for one? And for two, can you teach me how to post it like you did so I can do that in the future? The chase went about as well as it could. Ended up in the center of the eye. I posted a few videos in the thread. For the posts you have to paste the original link in another tab or window and substitute X for Twitter. So for example: If you paste the original link it’ll look like this https://x.com/burgwx/status/1839785589241258454?s=46&t=Nn9Cx92_8118fPdhHPdJHw If you change it in another tab and paste, it should automatically convert. You’ll know you’ve done it right if the tweet posts before you hit submit. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishingForWarmWeather Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Okay! Testing, testing, 1…2…3… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKY_WX Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 6 hours ago, NorthHillsWx said: Probably the worst storm to ever hit the western Carolina’s. Let that sink in. Flooding would’ve met the mark alone but the wind damage is insane Wind wise Hugo was worse. Flood wise, definitely in the past 50 years. Probably more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishingForWarmWeather Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 27 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said: The chase went about as well as it could. Ended up in the center of the eye. I posted a few videos in the thread. For the posts you have to paste the original link in another tab or window and substitute X for Twitter. So for example: If you paste the original link it’ll look like this https://x.com/burgwx/status/1839785589241258454?s=46&t=Nn9Cx92_8118fPdhHPdJHw If you change it in another tab and paste, it should automatically convert. You’ll know you’ve done it right if the tweet posts before you hit submit. You’re the best, friend. Thank you. Yes! I watched all your videos you posted. They were impressive. I was wondering - I saw chatter across the social media world in numerous places of people being “unimpressed” with the wind. Which, we both know, happens every single storm. I know Laura is your benchmark and I remember how rattled you were after. How did this stack up, in your opinion? I know being any closer to the coast itself was impossible due to the location, what’s available for protection, and surge concerns. But do you believe, if it were possible to be closer to “ground zero” than Perry, that the wind and gusts would have been perceived as more impactful? I can’t remember just how far Perry is - but I do know it’s a little bit of distance and many trees in between. Do you think the trees had any effect on the “disparity” (in quotes bc I fully understand we’re never going to get sustained winds matching official numbers) or simply just the distance? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilj4425 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Welp…all of the gas stations here in Greenville SC are pretty much out of fuel and the few fast food restaurants that are open are either out of food or have a line of cars at least 50 deep. The line to get gas at QT near my house was at least 100 cars deep. And don’t even get me started on the grocery stores. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 5 hours ago, lilj4425 said: Welp…all of the gas stations here in Greenville SC are pretty much out of fuel and the few fast food restaurants that are open are either out of food or have a line of cars at least 50 deep. The line to get gas at QT near my house was at least 100 cars deep. And don’t even get me started on the grocery stores. After a few days of no power you wont want to go into a grocery store... upside for the SC/NC powerless is at least its not in the 80-90's everyday for the next few days. Folks down in GA/FL will be without power for a week in the humid hot weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wncsnow Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 6 hours ago, HKY_WX said: Wind wise Hugo was worse. Flood wise, definitely in the past 50 years. Probably more. The wind was worse in some areas than Hugo. Hickory west and in the mountains. Flooding the worst since at least 1916. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 The western NC Flooding is definitely unprecedented and historic with so many records not just beat but shattered. Farther east in NC this happened: 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Lots of conflicting reports but the death toll has risen to at least 43 and is expected to keep going up as rescuers reach some of the cut off mountain towns and sift through the debris. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/28/hurricane-helene-tropical-storm-updates-saturday/75417411007/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPAwx Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 1 hour ago, NorthHillsWx said: Lots of conflicting reports but the death toll has risen to at least 43 and is expected to keep going up as rescuers reach some of the cut off mountain towns and sift through the debris. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/28/hurricane-helene-tropical-storm-updates-saturday/75417411007/ The final toll will be dreadfully high. 10 known fatalities in the TB region. 8 in Pinellas County, 2 in Hillsborough/Tampa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdrag Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 9 hours ago, HKY_WX said: Wind wise Hugo was worse. Flood wise, definitely in the past 50 years. Probably more. What about the Hurricane of 38 (New England)? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1220 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 40 minutes ago, TPAwx said: The final toll will be dreadfully high. 10 known fatalities in the TB region. 8 in Pinellas County, 2 in Hillsborough/Tampa. Some of the pictures I’m seeing particularly from Madeira Beach look devastating, similar to parts of LI/NYC after Sandy with the torn up docks, displaced cars and large debris everywhere. That’s what I remember seeing the day after that storm. And from what you and others are saying a lot of people there decided to ride it out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANDA Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Speaking strictly about wind and power outages. Track (and size) matters. Max winds and max areal coverage of power outages are along and east of the track. As it usually is landfall location and inland track are important. The people in eastern third of GA and upstate SC can confirm that. I'm thinking many in those areas were taken by surprise by the amount of wind damage and such huge areal power outages. For most a short distance west of the track this was not a big deal. Along and east huge deal. PRE was also super important to flooding. Helene moved quickly. Had there not been such a notable PRE flooding from Helene would have been far less. Just my 2 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUsedToHateCold Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 We are only beginning to learn how dreadful the flooding in western NC is- most of the affected area is cut off, but you can see already that this is a total disaster. Entire towns gone. 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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