Thoughts, prayers, and hope for victims of Hurricane Helene

[Draco1962]

Please keep the people adversely impacted by Hurricane Helene in your thoughts & prayers.

The picture shows the absence of lights cutting a swath from the Big Bend of the Florida Gilf coast all the way across Georgia into west North Carolina and Tennessee. Because of prior extensive rains preceding Helene, the additional max of 31.33 inches of rain over 3 days brought total devestation to many mountain towns.

If able, please search for and consider donations  to reputable charities for relief.

Thank you

[Tom Speirs]

Another one on the way too.

[Draco1962]

Yup. Looks like Tampa/Clearwater/Sarasota primed for impact.

[tthurman]

I've got a bunch of family in Tampa, they can't deal with it as it is, much less another.

[Draco1962]

I will keep them in my thoughts and prayers. I have family and friends throughout Florida, including the Tampa area.

[Tom Speirs]

We don't do the thoughts and prayers thing in the UK but i hope it all works out as best it can for people.

I'm not super public as you two guys know but I am looking at some more loss myself.

Fingers crossed.

[Tom Speirs]

PS: I appreciate you guys! Thanks for staying around so long.

[Draco1962]

Current track of Hurricane Milton:

Hoping your losses aren't.

Maybe if we give him his red stapler...

[Tom Speirs]

Fingers crossed.

PS:

Everything is hosted in the Netherlands now. I did have some stuff on the west coast but all consolidated now.

If you noticed some downtime on the other stuff this last few weeks that was why.

it was nice to have stuff hosted stateside but I got an amazing host and at least is not five eye now!

[Draco1962]

We made it relatively unscathed in NE Florida.  Others not so much further south. 

[tthurman]

This has been a crazy season so far to be sure, still can't believe the hurricane damage in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina from just a few weeks back now. Your just don't hear about events like this here.

How the Nolichucky Dam held together is hard to fathom. After this water went down stream it ended up in the Douglas reservoir, when TVA released that water it was dumping at 425,000 gallons a second.

 

 

 

[Draco1962]

Damn (pun intended). What I cannot fathom is weather personalities receiving hate mail and even threats. 

I understand the concerns and anxiety caused by back-to-back weather threats, but why the "weather rage" towards the people bringing us the information?

Mike of Mike's Weather Page is even getting unmitigated hate on his FB page for being accurate. Most of it is coming from tinfoil hatted flat earthers convinced that the current government is controlling and weaponizing the weather systems via HAARP against "the red states"...