Hurricanes Helene and Milton

I don’t know if any of our members have been affected by these hurricanes or not. If you have and can respond, we’d like to hear from you. You have been in my thoughts and prayers.

I followed a number of YouTube channels after the storms and am aware of the immense devastation and both the good and bad responses that followed. I do know of a location in East TN that has received massive donations and has been getting them out to the people in TN and NC.

WalkingbyFaith: I'm glad to see you posting and am happy to hear (based on our comments in astroman's thread) that you're okay and that there was no major damage to your home. I hope your Mom is doing well.

I'm still waiting for running wild to surface, as I think he would have been in the path, too. Georgia Hunter hasn't been on for a while, but I think he might have also been in an affected area. Just like JMF84 mentioned for his area, the impact in my area was also worse than most of us were expecting.

Western NC had already been dealing with a lot of rain in the 2-3 days prior to Helene, due to a weather system that was stalled over eastern TN and western NC. The grounds were already saturated and creeks, streams, and rivers were already running high. Then, Helene arrived.

In one video, a meteorologist in St. Louis said that it's believed that Helene dumped 40 trillion gallons of water, in total. It's difficult to really comprehend how much water that is, but the meteorologist did a pretty good job using some animations to try to put it into context.

How much rain has Hurricane Helene dumped?
https://youtu.be/jjzydoooewk

There's also a geologist that's made a few videos to show what happened to the mountainsides during Helene's extreme (30+ inches) of rain and why so much water flowed into Chimney Rock, NC and also why the Nolichucky, Cane, and Toe rivers flooded so badly.

TheGeoModels
https://www.youtube.com/@thegeomodels/videos

Even after all the photos and video I've seen of the damage to eastern TN and western NC, I still have trouble believing it's real.

Thanks again for posting. I'm glad to know you're safe. My best to you and your Mom.

Dude

Post Edited (The Dude Abides) : 10/21/2024 12:44:57 PM (GMT-4)

My wife's enitre family lives in the Tri-cities area in both the Tennessee and western North Carolina side. I've been up there a ton in my life. The devastation is crazy. Thinking about all you who were in the path of that storm. Hope all is well.