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Hurricane Helene kills at least 44 and cuts a swath of destruction across the Southeast
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | September 28, 2024 | AP Staff

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: florida; georgia; helene; tennessee
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.


21 posted on 09/28/2024 8:51:00 AM PDT by redangus ( )
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To: girlangler

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


22 posted on 09/28/2024 8:53:20 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: servo1969
"What propagandistic BS!

I believe we may have inadvertently found their motive, Holmes!

23 posted on 09/28/2024 8:54:15 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I’m more curious as to what made that single storm, lower left, break away and head West!

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.


24 posted on 09/28/2024 8:59:58 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: girlangler

It didn’t breach. Overtopped but held. Waters are receding. Hope your family is safe.


25 posted on 09/28/2024 9:04:56 AM PDT by redangus ( )
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To: Bikkuri

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.


26 posted on 09/28/2024 9:19:52 AM PDT by Blueway
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To: Macoozie

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.


27 posted on 09/28/2024 9:42:42 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

>>>”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.


28 posted on 09/28/2024 9:57:21 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: servo1969

Public high schools. ✖️


29 posted on 09/28/2024 10:11:29 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

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.


30 posted on 09/28/2024 10:22:36 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: KarlInOhio

That’s a very different path for one of those storms to take.


31 posted on 09/28/2024 10:35:27 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

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)


32 posted on 09/28/2024 11:02:09 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Uncle Lonny

OK…


33 posted on 09/28/2024 11:16:58 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ buy)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I hope the refusniks wrote their name and DOB on their arms as directed.


34 posted on 09/28/2024 12:23:36 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart!)
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To: subterfuge

Stay pissed A-hole.

Too many vulnerable elderly are physically incapable of evacuation.


35 posted on 09/28/2024 1:10:39 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: subterfuge

“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


36 posted on 09/28/2024 1:18:24 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Bikkuri
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.
37 posted on 09/28/2024 3:17:57 PM PDT by nicollo (Remember when we had to close tags?)
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To: Blueway
We had a 40,000 pound fuel truck that had been pushed sideways into a wall and a Trans Am squeezed (and flattened) under it 🫤
I also remember there were yachts on top of buildings.. glad I didn't own one 🤔
38 posted on 09/28/2024 4:19:40 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.


39 posted on 09/28/2024 10:09:16 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: subterfuge
"...Put rescuers in danger because you’re too stupid to do what is prudent.

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.

40 posted on 09/28/2024 10:19:55 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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