Hurricane Helene
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Looks like its going to be a big one and much of Florida is in for some high water. Appalachia in danger of serious flash flooding too.
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Looks like its going to be a big one and much of Florida is in for some high water. Appalachia in danger of serious flash flooding too.
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Outer bands just getting to
Outer bands just getting to Ft. Myers. Will probably just get high winds and lots of rain here.
good luck everyone
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An eyewall is starting to
An eyewall is starting to form, peak winds of 80mph should be increasing as the center goes into very warm open waters, away from the land friction of the Yucatan and Cuba... this storm will likely become a real beast!!!
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Check out the predicted storm
Check out the predicted storm surge. Not too many coastal communities in the sparsely populated Big Bend region, but the small handful of remote hamlets and fishing villages could be washed away with walls of water up to 18 feet high. An eight foot storm surge in the densely populated Tampa Bay area could also cause serious damage and flooding.
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I think this is going to go
I think this is going to go farther west to the Floribama area, watch out redneck riviera
8 ft. Would devastate St. Pete, the rest of the Sun Coast and Tampa
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And don't forget, you could
And don't forget, you could have 20 foot waves coming in on top of 18 feet of surge.
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Florida word of the day is
Florida word of the day is "Namaste"
"Y'all gonna evacuate? Namaste right here"
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Tallahassee evacuating
Tallahassee evacuating
We have closed all our shops north of Sarasota and into Alabama today, and probably tomorrow. we are also closing our Asheville area shops due to expected flooding.
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Helene Bucket
Helene Bucket
Enjoy the ride.
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The storm surge is going to
The storm surge is going to be devastating... currently sustained winds of 105mph
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HERE I AM
HERE I AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dq9Dqohhmg&pp=ygUecm9jayB5b3UgbGlrZSBhIGh...
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Videos of idiots in a
Videos of idiots in a motorboat zooming down a flooded street with a giant Trump flag is so Florida.
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Cat 3 now with a possible
Cat 3 now with a possible increase to a 4
God help em
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Warm and windy on the SW
Warm and windy on the SW coast of Florida at 4pm ET, with extensive rain
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There seems to be two magnets
There seems to be two magnets, one in the Florida Panhandle and one in New Orleans, that just pulls these storms right to them.
the eye has past us, mostly just 40 -50 mph winds here and little bit of rain, mostly wind, but we are starting to get that strong southwest side of the storm and I imagine things will pick up a little more before she peters out
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Twitters showing the storm
Just went up to Category 4.
Twitters showing the storm surge pouring into neighborhoods in the Tampa Bay area. It's low tide right now so only imagine it getting worse.
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Punching in from St.
Punching in from St. Petersburg... I live in one of the highest elevated points in the city, so flooding is never an issue. The eye is currently about even with Tampa Bay in the Gulf, and its is spitting out huge gusts of 40 to 70 mph here from 125 miles away. I also have enormous oak tree's here that God-willing will stay where they belong. Of course, power outages are inevitable, and so far so good here, also, although there's a lot out around Pinellas County.
Storm surge flooding in the next few hours is the nightmare around the corner.
An amazingly powerful storm that's moving quickly, and we'll be back to calm weather by tomorrow evening, but those poor small towns in The Big Bend are gonna get it bad tonight. I don't even wanna think about that kind of wind/water. Pray for those kidz.
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wishing you all well in FL,
wishing you all well in FL, stay dry, stay high.
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Take care , Earl , Fabes and
Take care , Earl , Fabes and all.
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Stay safe, Floridians,
Stay safe, Floridians, whatever your political affiliation might be.
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So indoor kayaking is the
So indoor kayaking is the latest rage on the Gulf Coast. Crazy flooding.
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Good wishes for coming
Good wishes for coming through it safely. Love to all.
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The storm center is moving
The storm center is moving fast, here's the 7:30pm and 11:30pm PT satellite pics. Still seeing 80 and even 90mph wind gust near the eye wall, which has really kept in tact... good luck everyone!
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Surprisingly calm here in
Surprisingly calm here in Atlanta but definitely wet. Not the best time to own a dog. Takin' that back, it's always the best time to own a dog.
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>In a Facebook post, the
from the Taylor county Sherriffs office
>In a Facebook post, the office asked anyone choosing not to evacuate to "PLEASE write your, Name, birthday and important information on your arm or leg in A PERMANENT MARKER so that you can be identified and family notified."
Residents were also asked to email further information including the number of people and pets at the residence and recent photographs
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St. Pete from a friends
St. Pete from a friends facebook
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How did you do Earl? I hear
How did you do Earl? I hear you won't be able to flush a toilet for the next 48 hours while they repair the wastewater treatment plant.
Power out at my folk's place in St. Augustine, which is weird because they are clear across the state on the Atlantic side. Some damage in my sister's neighborhood outside Jacksonville with trees down and the neighbor had a broken main water line.
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Hurricane Helene - Cedar Key
Hurricane Helene - Cedar Key storm surge aftermath -Drone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDVfWlMjUcE
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I did fine and thankfully
I did fine and thankfully never lost power, although over 200K just in my county did. My biggest problem is the massive tree debris from huge laurel oaks in the front and back of my house- mostly small branches and just a mess in my little backyard garden. Those tree's were wailin' like I've never seen in 36 years here. I will survive.
As I said, I'm in the middle of town on "Disston Ridge" and 60' above sea level. MANY expensive and otherwise homes near the coast or just low-lying are like 4-8', and got flooded, which is well beyond a bad day. My homeowners just went up a grand.
Ken- that sewage issue is just one station, and a relatively small part of the city for like two days. Not a drop on me.
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Glad you're OK, Earl. Hope to
Glad you're OK, Earl. Hope to see you at a show again in the future.
that cedar key video is why you leave if you are in an evacuation zone
and also why the Taylor County Sherriff made the Facebook post above.
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Thanks, Joe.
Thanks, Joe.
That YouTube vid is incredible if not depressing. Wow.
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Glad your plumbing is working
Glad your plumbing is working Earl.
Southern Blue Ridge getting devastated right now by catastrophic flooding. I-40 washed out near the Tenn./NC border, mudslides, and dozens of people trapped on the roof of a hospital.
Speaking of hospitals though, that "aquafence" they put up around the Tampa hospital worked like a charm. I had my doubts looking at pictures of them putting it up but kept the raging floodwaters out.
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It wasn't the dems that sent
It wasn't the dems that sent the destruction to Florida repubs.
It was god.
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So now Marjorie Taylor Green
So now Marjorie Taylor Green is saying "they" control the weather and sent it to take out places Republicans live. Also heard report of people in the mountains saying they didn't know to evacuate. I live in CA and knew to evacuate there were so many reports of imminent land slides and flooding. Maybe don't watch Fox News.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-t...
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Same people who deny man-made
Same people who cry that man-made climate change is a hoax are saying the Deep State can cause targeted hurricanes? Ok.
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>>Same people who cry that
>>Same people who cry that man-made climate change is a hoax are saying the Deep State can cause targeted hurricanes?
MENSA they are not!
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Yeah, the right wingers are
Yeah, the right wingers are screaming "HAARP" all over again... it could be pointed out that the devastated area received 9" of rain in the days before Helene struck. It was already flooding / ground saturated before the hurricane hit.
Now the path of the hurricanes is greatly influenced by the upper level wind flows, usually going around the Bermuda High pressure system, that drive these systems around the high circulation. But those patterns (Rossby Waves) have shifted recently, which I consider to be an effect related to climate change, since those planetary scale Rossby wave circulations are a form of how climate works, since they determine where meteorological events occur... This years storms following similar paths (actual path depended on where they formed, etc), confirms my Rossby wave theories.
All the evidence i've been provided on HAARP has been a laughable joke... doctored satellite pics, etc. The actually facility in Alaska was abandoned years ago, and is now owned by one of the Alaska colleges (can't remember which one). To my knowledge that technology never worked...
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One of my guilty pleasures is
One of my guilty pleasures is Kate Bush and she has a song called "Cloudbursting" about the real life eccentric Austrian psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich, who, among various other exploits, developed a machine that could allegedly cause rain storms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbuster
Here is the video for the song featuring the late great Donald Sutherland as Reich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw