>> All those closures delayed the start of the East Tennessee State University football game against The Citadel because the Buccaneers’ drive to Charleston, South Carolina, took 16 hours.
Vital footnote...
Asheville hit hard
Aerial footage of the destruction in western North Carolina in Biltmore Village in Asheville
https://rumble.com/v5gp956-ariel-footage-of-the-destruction-in-western-north-carolina-in-biltmore-vill.html?playlist_id=Uej4FCbFQlo
Will Kamala leap to the rescue?
At a time like this, who cares about a football game? What's more important, rescuing people or watching some guys vie for possession of a leather balloon?
Prayers!
Yes we got hit hard.
Kentucky was hit too, by rain and winds up to 50 MPH. So far my neighborhood has gotten 4 inches of rain, and the power is out in many areas, but not where I live, fortunately.
If the same amount of rain had went into southwestern Virgina where three more major ones form up Holston, Powell, and Clinch Rivers, it would have hit the entire upper Tennessee Valley from Kingsport to Chattanooga from Smokys to the Cumberlands.
TVA which was created for flood control has adopted some very dangerous policies as homes popped up along the east Tennessee Lakes. Norris Lake {Clinch & Powell}, Cherokee {Holston} and Douglas {French Broad, Pigeon} were built as upper tributaries dams with water levels dropped substantially toward summers end and Fall and stay at low pool levels until Spring rains begin. Thus creating a huge buffer for preventing disasters. They have purposely to appease mansion land owners and developers held the lake levels high year round starting about 15 yeas ago.
All the rivers mentioned are mountain rivers and the lakes mountain lakes though at a lower elevation. Douglas full pool level is 990 ft above sea level hit 1011. Norris full pool is 1020 it is almost at 1015 & by now should be 990-995 ft. I've seen Norris full several times now and slucing water in December and January. Very reckless and dangerous and when they do this the discharge flow rate is about that of an average flood before TVA built the dams. TVA doing this has destroyed many river bottoms due to erosion from heavy water flow.
This storm was worse than I thought!
I just got some rain and wind.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
All the people devastated by the hurricane won’t get 1/10th the funds they give Ukraine.
That’s how you know your government doesn’t care about its citizens.
They only care about getting themselves, their friends, their lobbyists, and their donors more money and power.
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https://x.com/catturd2/status/1840142895543644176
God bless them!
Prayers for the victims, loved ones and the rescuers.
I week ago I wished this storm would give me some good rain. I now am contrite and sorry I asked.
I did a little web surfing after relatives in another state lost power. They are ten miles from a nuclear power station.
I went to the county and power company websites. It is clear that there are plans to shut down coal fired plants. I could not see if they had already done so.
My relatives are charged a higher price during peak electricity usage hours. That is something you do when you have, or anticipate, a shortage of power.
Anyone relying on solar or wind are SOL. It’s been overcast for a few days now and it may be several more before we see the sun. The trees are still.
I live in an adjacent state. We have experienced a few days of rain. We are charged the same rate for electricity regardless of time of day. Helene is a big yawn here.
Natural disasters have always happened. They have happened in the past. You can count on them happening in the future. If you close coal (and gas?) fired plants and ignore power lines in favor of wind and solar, you are just asking for trouble. Helene may prove the point, or perhaps I was just lucky (again).
How is this going to impact the election, so much destruction, a month out from election day. Not heard the governors ask for National ER relief.
Back in the 2010 flood that went from Memphis to Nashville, we in the small towns had 1 lone FEMA bus. Millington, TN has a Navy Base. Flooded the town and whole South Side of the base. Bing has photos. May 2010 Millington TN 100 year storm.
Trailer park, had orange X’s on them. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.4SPbWkelVnp_VbViceMbPAHaE8%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=149a499bc7ddbb4c28f94d7183f56614840eb1aacc8b10f59910191c3e0317dd&ipo=images
Reminds me of a similar storm in the early 1970s that flooded and killed lots of people. Hurricane went from Alabama up into West Virginia.
One thing that offended lots of TV viewers...A child had just lost his parents in a flood back then. A news reporter runs up to the boy, shoves a microphone in his face and says in a loud voice....”HOW DOES IT FEEL NOW YOUR PARENTS ARE DEAD!”
Prayers for my fellow Florida People. I went through a CAT3, and that was bad enough. I can’t even imagine what they are going through right now.
Hurricane Helene Fatality Total: 103+
{1,073+ Remain Missing}
➼38+ in North Carolina [1,000+ Remain Missing]
•30+ in Buncombe County
•5 in Henderson County
•1 in Catawba County
•1 in Gaston County
•1 in Mecklenburg County
➼28 in South Carolina
•6 in Spartanburg County
•4 in Aiken County
•4 in Greenville County
•4 in Saluda County
•4 in Anderson County
•3 in Laurens County
•2 in Newberry County
•1 in Greenwood County
➼21 in Georgia
•3 in McDuffie County
•3 in Richmond County
•3 in Lowndes County
•2 in Wheeler County
•2 in Laurens County
•2 in Jeff Davis County
•2 in Washington County
•1 in Colquitt County
•1 in Pierce County
•1 in Liberty County
•1 in Columbia County
➼12 in Florida
•9 in Pinellas County
•2 in Hillsborough County
•1 in Dixie County
•0 in Taylor County {Hurricane Landfall Location}
➼2+ in Tennessee [73+ Remain Missing]
•Officials in Unicoi County confirmed “deaths” occurred, with no specific numbers.
➼2 in Virginia
•1 in Craig County
•1 in Tazewell County
https://x.com/WXFatalities/status/1840504720286470166
Just an idea. President Trump should announce that effective Monday through next Saturday that all campaign contributions will be donated to disaster relief for the affected areas and double dog dare the Democrats to do the same.