It looks like Hurricane Bonnie, 2022. Bonnie was able to get over the Central American mountains still partially intact so it reformed over the Pacific. It's not so much that it headed west, it just didn't kill itself hitting Central America.
Posted on 09/28/2024 7:13:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Hurricane Helene left an enormous path of destruction across Florida and the southeastern U.S. on Friday, killing at least 44 people, snapping towering oaks like twigs and tearing apart homes as rescue crews launched desperate missions to save people from floodwaters.
Among those killed were three firefighters, a woman and her 1-month-old twins, and an 89-year-old woman whose house was struck by a falling tree. According to an Associated Press tally, the deaths occurred in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
The Category 4 hurricane knocked out power to some hospitals in southern Georgia, and Gov. Brian Kemp said authorities had to use chainsaws to clear debris and open up roads. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph) when it made landfall late Thursday in a sparsely populated region in Florida’s rural Big Bend area, home to fishing villages and vacation hideaways where the state's panhandle and peninsula meet.
Moody’s Analytics said it expects $15 billion to $26 billion in property damage.
The wreckage extended hundreds of miles northward to northeast Tennessee, where a “ dangerous rescue situation ” by helicopter unfolded after 54 people were moved to the roof of the Unicoi County Hospital as water rapidly flooded the facility. Everyone was rescued and no one was left at the hospital as of late Friday afternoon, Ballad Health said.
In North Carolina, a lake featured in the movie “Dirty Dancing” overtopped a dam and surrounding neighborhoods were evacuated, although there were no immediate concerns it would fail. People also were evacuated from Newport, Tennessee, a city of about 7,000 people, amid concerns about a dam near there, although officials later said the structure had not failed.
Tornadoes hit some areas, including one in Nash County, North Carolina, that critically injured four people.
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48K without power in Indianapolis since around 6:30 last night. Thank God for our new generator. My wife is on oxygen and needs electricity. It’s been running for over 17 hours.
Thanks for mentioning this. I hadn’t heard about it. Thankfully it sounds like the river crested earlier this morning and is now receding, and the dam is expected to hold.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-tennessee-dam-near-imminent-103507925.html
I believe we may have inadvertently found their motive, Holmes!
It looks like Hurricane Bonnie, 2022. Bonnie was able to get over the Central American mountains still partially intact so it reformed over the Pacific. It's not so much that it headed west, it just didn't kill itself hitting Central America.
It didn’t breach. Overtopped but held. Waters are receding. Hope your family is safe.
My mother and I had left Miami on a Carnival ship on Saturday, 22 August 1992.
At that time Hurricane Andrew was out at sea and expected to curve and go up the coast.
We had left Mom’s car in the pier parking lot.
The ship had been routed to the west of the Bahamas, so we didn’t have any bad weather at all.
The family was frantic until we got into San Juan and could call them from a pay phone.
Nobody knew whether we would be able to go back into Miami because the airports were closed for days.
They did open just in time for the ship to go back to Miami.
Mom’s car was still there but apparently water had been high enough that the brakes had been wet, and the 2 year old car’s paint job had been sand blasted.
Miami was a mess.
This storm was a flood event, far more than a wind event. I’m pretty sure most of the losses will be uninsured. Not many people shell out for NFIP if they live in a 1,000 year flood plain.
>>>”Can you tell me which one of these was caused or made worse by a one part per 10,000 increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration? 🤔
Don’t know! I can’t yet separate man-made versus natural occurring CO2 from the total.
Public high schools. ✖️
Just for laughs & chuckles I used the AI feature on my S24+ to answer the following question..
“”Can you tell me which one of these was caused or made worse by a one part per 10,000 increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration?”
A one part per 10,000 increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration would most likely cause or worsen a prolonged drought; as increased CO₂ contributes to a warming planet, leading to altered weather patterns and increased likelihood of droughts in many regions.
Yup, same spoon-fed BS we all get from the MSM.
That’s a very different path for one of those storms to take.
Rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones since 1950
Humberto, 2007 (65 mph increase)
Ida, 2021 (60 mph increase)
King, 1950 (60 mph increase)
Helene, 2024 (55 mph increase)
Laura, 2020 (45 mph increase)
Michael, 2018 (45 mph increase)
Harvey, 2017 (40 mph increase)
Cindy, 2005 (40 mph increase)
Danny, 1997 (40 mph increase)
Eloise, 1975 (40 mph increase)
OK…
I hope the refusniks wrote their name and DOB on their arms as directed.
Stay pissed A-hole.
Too many vulnerable elderly are physically incapable of evacuation.
“It amazes and simultaneously pisses me off that vulnerable people don’t evacuate. Put rescuers in danger because you’re too stupid to do what is prudent.”
That happens sometimes.
But not right to use that with this massive storm.
It did things that normally don’t happen.
And some people can’t move
was, at one time, considered a Cat 5 (winds were at, or more than 200/mph), but then downgraded to Cat 4.. (BS)..)Andrew hit FLA at Cat 5.
If you live within 30 miles of the coastline of the US anywhere from Knotts Island, NC, to Port Isabel. TX, you need to be prepared for losing everything you own to a hurricane at least once in your lifetime.
No it doesn't. No one made them become a rescuer, and no one makes them put themselve3s in danger. They do it of their own volition. If people didn't habitually behave stupidly, about 90% of first responders would be out of work.
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