Posted on 09/26/2024 9:15:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
Around the time Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, power outages across the state surged to over 1 million. The majority of these outages are concentrated around Tampa and the Big Bend area, where Helene struck. According to PowerOutage.us, over 80% of tracked electric customers in Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Suwannee, and Taylor counties are affected.
Power outages are also increasing in Georgia, where approximately 54,000 electric customers were without power around midnight, local time. AccuWeather meteorologists predict more outages as Helene moves inland, with some outages potentially lasting several days to over a week.
Prayers up for the people in that affected region.
Helene is hitting the Florida peninsula with the nasty, tornado laden “twelve o’clock to three o’clock” side,
Power outages are to be expected.
Good live coverage from weather nation
Same company as real America’s voice (Steve Bannon)
So a non woke weather channel basically
https://rumble.com/v5g8hb9-weathernation-live-247.html?e9s=src_v1_ep
I miss Art Bell, he would have had a guest on tonight who could explain how this weather event was not guided by H.A.A.R.P but instead by the secret Chinese clone C.H.E.E.S.E and how they are waging new warfare against us for something we are doing.
If you put the wires under ground will the storm still take them out?
My power went out last night right before 9:00 pm. Miraculously, it came back on a bit after midnight. I’m crossing my fingers, hoping it will stay on!
we’re getting pounded with high winds in suwannee county... i’ve got a couple of big red oak trees that snapped in half... we’re gonna have a mess to clean up...
Unexpectedly, Helene drifted east of her projected track, so Tallahassee dodged a bullet, as did the most populated parts of the west side of the Florida peninsula. The town of Perry and smaller settlements in that area got hit hard though, as did several small fishing ports. On the whole, Florida got lucky.
Somewhat critical that the area is getting hit in Georgia are probably Trump areas. If it also hits Atlanta hard, no real reason to be anxious to bring all of those infrastructure items back online quite so fast, especially if early voting is underway.
The 2024 ‘blue wave’ of destruction is here.
Powereoutage.us
States and territories by customers out
Florida 1,195,589
Georgia 884,389
South Carolina 635,013
North Carolina 209,013
Virginia 9,869
That’s the usual media script.
The wires have to exit somewhere.................
Just ran across this from 2020. Interesting...
More....
https://new.nsf.gov/news/burying-short-sections-power-lines-could
Another take, this one with regard to Houston, TX...
Note to Floridians: Power stations with solar panels.
For emergencies, try it, you’ll like it.
No, unless it takes out the land mass that are running through. The issue would be the transformers that are sitting on the ground.
Haven’t heard any reports on the ground from Tallahassee, supposedly with all the trees there would be major issues.
OVER 4 million outages as of this AM.
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