The problem is Americans have received all kinds of false "catastrophe warnings" from covid to "climate change". When a real catastrophe comes along, the warnings fall on deaf ears.
“When a real catastrophe comes along, the warnings fall on deaf ears.”
t isn’t possible to prepare for something so unpredictable and catastrophic. Was the entire SE USA supposed to have re-located before the storm?
So true!! I live in Central Florida but when add hurricanes to the changing nomenclature du jour and start calling them cyclones and over hyping everything from a splinter on, I do tend to start listening with half my attention. Don’t ignore, I’m not stupid- but do question everything
No one could have predicted this...
Yes rain was coming...but 2’ was not predicted.
“Catastrophic flooding in this area was predicted ahead of time.”
Most of the predictions I saw had Helene veering well west of Asheville, directly into Tennessee from northwest Georgia. In any case, the hurricane’s impact area was very wide and Busick, 45 miles northeast of Asheville, got 29.6 inches of rain in a very short period of time.
In Georgia, the predictions were all over the place, from west of Atlanta to east of US 15. The actual path in central and northeast/north Georgia roughly followed US 441, despite what some post-hurricane maps show. The “eye” of the then-tropical-storm Helene was almost directly over Athens, GA early Friday morning. I was looking at wind maps for that area at 4 am that morning.
Friday morning, Helene was 100 miles east of where it was predicted to be the previous evening. I sure as hell didn't see any predictions of 29.58 inches of rain anywhere.