Hurricane Helene thread - Not a football thread but y’all be safe *keep politics, conspiracy theories, and and tinderbox squabbles out of this*

[strato]

21 minutes ago, Basbear said:

In the past few days our great goverment has gave away billions and more millions to taiwan, israel, ukraine.......... while TN, NC, GA, VI, SC are in dead waters?? Just pisses me off to no end. Theres over 1,000 missing in ashville last I heard. Trucks being turned away and tires cut by crazy people. My uncle just came up from SC and borrowed my generator, cords, and gas can. He had one but had to return it and said it would be months before they got power. 

Leadership is fuging this all up. 

You know that we are no longer important to them. 

[strato]

33 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

People take pride in rebuilding after disasters. Even in obvious flood zones. They rebuild on the coast after every hurricane. They rebuild on the Rockies after every wildfire. They rebuild along the fault lines after every earthquake.

People shouldn't be building in flood plains but they do and they will.

Sure. You have to know when to leave. After a point it’s too late to leave. 
Down here I have learned to understand how to wait to the last minute and which way to head. Lots of people left here before Hugo to go inland and get a room if you can find one, only to get whacked with high winds and tornados and stuff. 
I have it down… wait until I know where it is really going, and give the thousands and thousands of people time to get out and the roads to be clear of that standstill traffic. 

You have to know. I knew people that stayed in Garden City during Hugo they swore they would never be that stupid again lol

A direct hit over Cat 1 or you are in the NE quadrant, you don’t want to be there. 
 

Edited October 1, 2024 by strato

[LinvilleGorge]

6 minutes ago, strato said:

Sure. You have to know when to leave. After a point it’s too late to leave. 
Down here I have learned to understand how to wait to the last minute and which way to head. Lots of people left here before Hugo to go inland and get a room if you can find one, only to get whacked with high winds and tornados and stuff. 
I have it down… wait until I know where it is really going, and give the thousands and thousands of people time to get out and the roads to be clear of that standstill traffic. 

You have to know. I knew people that stayed in Garden City during Hugo they swore they would never be that stupid again lol

A direct hit over Cat 1 or you are in the NE quadrant, you don’t want to be there. 
 

I had a good buddy ride out Irma on Key West. That was idiotic and they got very fortunate. 

[strato]

7 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I had a good buddy ride out Irma on Key West. That was idiotic and they got very fortunate. 

Irma even got us up here. I think it was the first one in all my years here that put storm surge over here on the SC coast and was a gulf storm. I think we had 4-5 feet of surge on top of high tide it was crazy.

[Floppin]

Picture from this morning for perspective of my earlier picture

[Floppin]

Took the picture at the high water mark

[csx]

11 hours ago, Basbear said:

In the past few days our great goverment has gave away billions and more millions to taiwan, israel, ukraine.......... while TN, NC, GA, VI, SC are in dead waters?? Just pisses me off to no end. Theres over 1,000 missing in ashville last I heard. Trucks being turned away and tires cut by crazy people. My uncle just came up from SC and borrowed my generator, cords, and gas can. He had one but had to return it and said it would be months before they got power. 

Leadership is fuging this all up. 

I realize nobody pays attention to details and how things work.

How aid has always worked. They are not given cash. US companies are paid to produce items that are sent to these countries. The money stays here. 

If you all of sudden care about infrastructure then support the lawmakers who vote to fund infrastructure products not against them.

 

[HPPantherzfan]

10 hours ago, strato said:

Irma even got us up here. I think it was the first one in all my years here that put storm surge over here on the SC coast and was a gulf storm. I think we had 4-5 feet of surge on top of high tide it was crazy.

It was during a Kings tide, even worse, and it was crazy. 

[LinvilleGorge]

3 hours ago, csx said:

I realize nobody pays attention to details and how things work.

How aid has always worked. They are not given cash. US companies are paid to produce items that are sent to these countries. The money stays here. 

Yeah, it's a gigantic money laundering scheme.

[Mr. Scot]

Been busy, but thought I'd check in ..

We were out of power for a while and have some damage, but were relatively lucky. Some of Lady Cowboy Fan's family got it worse than us so we're trying to help them out.

The devastation I've seen around us, including some too close for comfort, is just horrible.

I had the joy of visiting Chimney Rock some years back. To see what's happened to it now...

Edited October 1, 2024 by Mr. Scot

[LinvilleGorge]

The amount of help coming is just unbelievable. I drove up to the Linville area to help a friend cut some trees off of his workshop/utility shed thing and coming back down the mountain it was just convoys of dump trucks after backhoes after the biggest damn bulldozers I've ever seen after water tanker trucks after pickups towing cargo trailers after race teams with their trailers packed full of aid. Just amazing to see. Hard not to choke up seeing it.

We swung by to check on a job we just finished up on a house addition and unfortunately found out that the roofer on the job was crushed and killed by a tree that fell through his house. He seemed like a really good guy. The death numbers are going to go up a lot and I think a lot of people will probably remain forever missing.

[ProcessBlue2]

I've been off here until today. We live on the western side. Family was very lucky compared to others not far from us. Don't think people fully understand how bad it actually is out there. We came in east to get back into some civilization for a bit. 

Edited October 1, 2024 by ProcessBlue2

[bigginpc]

4 hours ago, csx said:

I realize nobody pays attention to details and how things work.

How aid has always worked. They are not given cash. US companies are paid to produce items that are sent to these countries. The money stays here. 

If you all of sudden care about infrastructure then support the lawmakers who vote to fund infrastructure products not against them.

 

Some water, food, diapers, medical supplies and other bare necessities used to be and maybe still are pre-staged in warehouses across the country. It's only enough for a few days till a supply chain is setup. I know  years back there was one just north east of Charlotte.

[Panthers Fan 69]

Don’t forget pet food as well.  Animals are running very low pet food.