Posted on 09/26/2024 8:04:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
An “unsurvivable” storm surge is trailing in the wake of fast-moving Hurricane Helene as it barrels towards Florida. Damaging winds, rains, and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S. may also be in the mix, forecasters said Thursday.
AP reports Helene is now a major hurricane — meaning an upgrade to Category 2 — as it makes towards landfall on Florida’s northwestern Big Bend coast late Thursday evening and into Friday morning.
The storm is so large that areas roughly 90 miles north of the Georgia-Florida line could expect hurricane conditions. States as far inland as Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana could see rainfall.
As of early Thursday, hurricane warnings and flash flood warnings extended far beyond the coast up into south-central Georgia. The governors of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas have all declared emergencies in their states.
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On Ryan Walls’ Youtube weather channel last night, he said western South Carolina would be experiencing a 2500 year rain/flood event. Not a 100 year, not a 500 year, but a 2500 year event. In other words, never seen in the history of humanity.
I’m in northeast Georgia and am not looking forward to this. It’s been raining since yesterday afternoon and it appears it is going to be raining for the next 50 hours or so. And don’t forget we get to look forward to the wind as well.
And Florida is going to get it so much worse!
God Bless you
Cue the “Human Caused Climate Change talking points.......”
Season has a month to go, and so far only three minor hurricanes. The global heating guys are sadly disappointed.
As of now, it looks like St. George Island will be on the good side of the storm. If so, it will have surge, but not the pounding, dune-destroying kind. I was there with my buddies last year. Very nice.
they usually get it wrong anyway, but this year was a bad swing and a miss. Cant believe anybody at all listens to them.
Like all storms they push the end times. Common sense, for those of us who have it, will be prepared and fine.
Accuweather reporting it will hit FL as Cat 4 This evening ! Storm surge 20 ft. Even Tampa Bay expecting surge of 10 feet. My advice? Get the hell out while you still can.
It is a big deal if you live at sea level and take a direct hit..
It just tipped to a cat2 after all the major networks were basically saying days before that it was already a cat4.
My guess is that Nashville will flood again
https://x.com/SayHisNameJesus/status/1839108539127607341
This is what 20 feet of surge does, look down at the IKE images the second one from the Bolivar Peninsula is text book overwash then backwash. If the surge prediction holds true it will wipe clean the beachfront. I wouldn’t risk my life to stay and see if it’s 20 feet or 10 come back and let the insurance deal with it.
Well, we don’t get excited or worried about rainfall like they do in California.
Not sure where you are, but the rain over last weekend helped my plants look much better than they have in a few weeks. More rain won’t hurt them, but they are very happy right now.
The category is only part of a storms profile. The physical dimensions are a key factor. You can have a very strong stormed like Andrew that was compact and have a smaller storm surge even with category 5 winds vs a large wide cat 2 that has a massive surge. Water and waves are pushed by fetch the distance wind can push on a mass of water. NOAA uses the hurricane hunter aircraft radar to take sea level and wave heights they would have a good view of what the storm surge potential is, I would take them at their word of 20 feet and evac for sure.
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