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Hurricane Helene live updates: 132 dead, including 40 in hard-hit county...Hurricane Helene's inland flooding has been catastrophic.
ABC News ^ | September 30, 2024 | Emily Shapiro, David Brennan, Leah Sarnoff, Julia Reinstein, and Meredith Deliso

Posted on 10/01/2024 12:47:08 AM PDT by Red Badger

The storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding from Hurricane Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods, stranding residents and destroying homes in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

More than 130 people have been killed, according to The Associated Press.

Helene, which made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region Thursday night as a massive Category 4 hurricane, was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend on record.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: North Carolina; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: disaster; flooding; helene; hurricane; tennessee; virginia; whereisbootygigger; whereisjoe
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1 posted on 10/01/2024 12:47:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

America Last

Americans Last

No more money for relief - Democrat Joe Biden

No food for Whitey until last - Democrat Kamala Harris

Keep voting Democrat! It’s working!


2 posted on 10/01/2024 12:51:29 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

Read somewhere that one NC county got 29.5 inches of rain. Unless your name is Noah, that’s kinda hard to deal with.


3 posted on 10/01/2024 1:57:37 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Heavy rain at mountainous elevations is a deadly combination................


4 posted on 10/01/2024 1:59:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
Nothing is too good for the illegal aliens invading America, the land of the freebie, and there is nothing left over to help Americans in need because it has all been squandered on illegal aliens invited into our country by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and then fraudulently classified as “ refugees” fleeing persecution
5 posted on 10/01/2024 2:02:54 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Red Badger

Sure is...floodwaters on East TN side swept away my house and ALL of our possessions. Like the Joker said after his pencil trick in ‘The Dark Knight’...”It’s...GONE!”


6 posted on 10/01/2024 2:18:40 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: NubeyFree

Everybody expects Biden to intervene and declare a cooling off period. But he says he won’t.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/29/-biden-says-he-wont-intervene-if-port-workers-go-on-strike.html


8 posted on 10/01/2024 2:37:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: who knows what evil?

My condolences to you for your loss. Are you insured? ............


9 posted on 10/01/2024 2:38:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Libloather
Agnes didn't dump as much, but it's not as if it hasn't happened before.

Remembering Hurricane Agnes, 50 years later...

"As Agnes moved across New York and Pennsylvania, it weakened to extra-tropical strength. The slow moving remnants of the storm dropped around 7 to 10 inches of rain across Pennsylvania with the highest amounts of 12 to 18 inches falling in a corridor between Williamsport and the York/Harrisburg area."

10 posted on 10/01/2024 2:43:43 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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I’m so sorry! Prayers!


11 posted on 10/01/2024 2:45:51 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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To: who knows what evil?

OMG!! PRAYERS!!!


12 posted on 10/01/2024 2:54:36 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: who knows what evil?

So, so sorry! Praying for you.


13 posted on 10/01/2024 3:12:33 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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I am so very sorry for the loss of your home and possessions. Praying for all those who have lost everything. I cannot even imagine.


15 posted on 10/01/2024 3:20:28 AM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: SaveFerris
Speaking of assistance, from a different weather event and Upstate NY...

Steuben County faces estimated $50M in damages, awaits FEMA's assistance

NYS has a $237 billion dollar budget.

Why does Steuben County have to beg from the feds?!

As for the Southern states with damage running into the hundreds of billions, seems to me that's what FEMA money should be there for, disasters so huge states can't pay for them on their own.

16 posted on 10/01/2024 3:29:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Depends on how you mean deal with.

Even places with the worst damage had seen storms like this before, though you’d have to go back five or six generations.

And look at the topography. Flood control wouldn’t have prevented all the damage, but some flood control and better zoning would have helped to mitigate it.

I’m also reading that federal flood insurance uptake is not great in a lot of the areas where people should have had it.

More people need to stop depending in government to do their thinking for them, to bail them out after they make unwise decisions.


17 posted on 10/01/2024 3:36:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Government will never make you whole.


18 posted on 10/01/2024 3:37:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
FEMA’s DEI Crippled Hurricane Helene Response FEMA’s ‘Goal 1’ wasn’t disaster management, but ‘equity’.
19 posted on 10/01/2024 3:45:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Red Badger

No power since Saturday morning 0700


20 posted on 10/01/2024 4:02:00 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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