Paa Langfart

See my above post.

Pretty sure that THEY are directing all this from their lair in Campeche

Might have nothing to do with the storm. I routinely get at least half a dozen of those sorts of texts and/ or pre recorded calls a week, sometimes 3 or 4 a day. Been blocking and reporting as spam for months but it seems to do no good.

There is a shitton of maintenance to keep military helicopters flying safely and it might be a maintenance heavy day. The crews need time to decompress and rest as well.

So I missed Bryce's big come back while I was out enjoying the beautiful day ?

Consider yourself a lucky man.

That is a crazy amount of hardwood. I hope someone is able to get in there and salvage some of it.

At this point it looks like it will be pushed to the eastnortheast after passing over Florida. Tampa Bay region looks like they could take another bad hit. Still early though so anything is possible. From the 10 am NHC discussion - The depression is forecast to quickly intensify while it moves eastward to northeastward across the Gulf of Mexico and be at or near major hurricane strength when it reaches the west coast of the Florida Peninsula mid week.

Good idea but good luck. Developers that control the legislature and county officials will make sure of that. If they can make money off of someone else's future misery they just don't gaf. My county commissioners for example - 4 out of the 5 have direct ties to real estate and/or developers. They are approving and building huge developments in wetlands and flood prone areas with no consideration to where the water is going in the next big storm down here. We had an un named storm here about 3 weeks ago, that washed out multiple roads in my county and I know for a fact that one of the washouts right down the road from me is directly attributable to a development that went in since Florence. Its similar in the state legislature from what I read. All across the country they keep building on beaches and other areas they know damn well they shouldn't. The only way to stop it that I can see is to stop government subsidizing of flood insurance for new construction. But good luck with that too.

I had been thinking the same thing. I am no engineer but it seems like the only way to fix some of those will entail some major work with bulkheads, tie backs, etc. Certainly nothing cheap nor fast. This is gong to take many years to come back from and is going to be not only a humanitarian but a financial disaster for the western part of NC.

Just curious as to how that footage was shot ? Another copter ? Drone? As an aside I hope there are no incidents with the responders - heard on some news source that there have been over a hundred " close calls" of deployed air assets thus far.

I've been keeping honeybees for about 30 years- after Floyd dropped about 30 inches on us in 99, several of my hives were attacked and robbed out by yellow jackets. Even the nasties have to eat and they'd been run out of their holes/nests and food stores.

ooof ooof

I know a guy who knows a first responder from outside Asheville. The first responder told him they haven't even begun searching in a lot of areas and there are hundreds of un identified bodies already. I hope it isn't, but I have a feeling that unfortunately it is true. Really sad.

damn boys we needed that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

was thinking it was just me

Absolutely, I was thinking the same thing myself

that was a hell of a throw from AD

yeah as usual my ota signal sucks . fading in and out

First pic here is route 211 a major roadway into and out of Southport- this was one of 3 washouts on that road.

Brunswick County is still recovering from what weather people called a one in a thousand year storm/rain event last week. Over 12 inches of rain in less than 12 hours. Southport is still basically cut off except for one road. Carolina Beach is reported to have had 18 inches of rain in 12 hours. Don't ever try to drive over a flooded road like this guy did. You have no idea if there is still a road under the water. 1st pic shows after the truck was pulled out of the washout. Whoever drove into it was lucky to survive.

You rose colored glasses wearers are in for some very disappointing Sunday afternoons for the next few years.

Looks like Ron lost a lot of weight. I hope he is well.

who is this bryce ?